Redirection rewrites.

SMHarman · 30-01-2006, 11:33

Someone posted a solution on this from way back.

If a page 404s on a site I want the site to process it and permanently redirect a different place

e.g

abc123.com/wibble.html 404s so instead of 404ing it it perm directs it to abc123.co.uk/wibble.html

anyone know how?

Jon M · 30-01-2006, 12:01

This needs to be added to your .htaccess file in the root folder of your domain webspace.

You can use an absolute reference like so:

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.mydomain.com/404page.html

or a relative link like so:

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 /directory1/404page.html

handyman · 30-01-2006, 13:07

If you go to cpanel you can edit your 404 file in 'custom error pages'

I use the following :

Code:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;
url=http://www.purplegriffon.com/">
<title>Sorry Page not found -- Redirect to homepage</title>
<body>
Sorry the page you requested no longer exists you are being redirected to our home page.
</body>
<!--

So if you go to www.purplegriffon.com/pagenothere.html you get redirected.

When I get chance I'll do something a bit fancier.

SMHarman · 30-01-2006, 13:28

I've got that bit - it's the fancy bit of taking you from nopagethere.html on one site to nopagethere on the other site, or nopage1 > nopage2. I could put lots and lots of perm redirects in place but I would be here until Christmas.

Jon M · 30-01-2006, 13:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by SMHarman

I've got that bit - it's the fancy bit of taking you from nopagethere.html on one site to nopagethere on the other site, or nopage1 > nopage2. I could put lots and lots of perm redirects in place but I would be here until Christmas.

Unless you want custom 404 pages for each site the .htaccess method will do exactly what you asked for.

SMHarman · 30-01-2006, 16:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon M

Unless you want custom 404 pages for each site the .htaccess method will do exactly what you asked for.

My .htaccess file looks like this

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://t he.com/
ErrorDocument 404 http://t he.com/404page.html

All that does is dump the viewer back at the home page of t he.com A better place than a 404 page, but still not the page they might have been looking for.

SMHarman · 31-01-2006, 01:29

A few PMs later

Anyone tell me how to code a site wide redirect to it is also markets as permanent when hit by a search engine?