.htaccess masters, Help needed.
 

hi all.,

how do i do this .,

i want to redirect all error/non existed pages to home page but not using

errodocumnet 404 thing

as it would show 404 in header.,

rather i want header to show
301 redirect.

how do i do that ?

so if i check header for nonexisted page link
like www.blahblah.com/nonexisted.html

it should thorw

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

in header.


thanks for your time.

gfy "webmaster forum" lol
2 seconds on Google gets what you need

http://www.htaccessredirect.net/index.php

seriously?

You didnt read my post.
or am i missing something here ?

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

You might as well use 404, as redirecting many pages back to the home page with 301 will give you no SEO benefit. The idea is to redirect individual old pages to individual new pages, unless you do that the SEO benefit is null.

If you really want to throw a 301 for every page you don't have on your site then do it in Perl or PHP using the guide here:

http://www.seoworkers.com/seo-articl...tml#modrewrite

I misunderstood becasue you're asking how to do something that is a very bad idea and should not be done, but here's how to redirect if a file does not exist...



I hacked someone else's code so double check it. I also made it 302 becasue 301 is a really really stupid idea in this situation.