How to redirect 404 pages to my home page ?

Hi, I have changed alot of pages in my site and I feels that now serps may give 404 errors so I want all my 404 page to be redirected to my home page immediately. What can be the safest way of doing this ? what should I add in .htaccess ? is it good to have customized 404 page or just diret him to home page?

Regards

 

Try this:
ErrorDocument 404 /

 

I think that should be ErrorDoucment 404 Index. whatever

You may also want to consider a custom error page where you refer the above to somepage.whatever instead of the index page/home page. This is somewhat more friendly any may help you preserve and deep linked pages.

See an example at www.my-e-space.com/nosuchpage.html

On that page you would provide links to the new pages on your site. If you are really organized it could take the form of if you were looking x it is now at Y. I wasn't and this was all I did.

 

where ? which document I should edit ?

 

Yes, but the '/' still work.

That should be placed in a .htaccess file

 

We all assumed you knew more than you do. Sorry about that. There is a file in the first directory of your site, public_html, if you are using cPanel and a couple of the other control panels call it http_docs I think.

The file name is .htaccess. It controls all the behind the scenes stuff that manages your site. In this case you are telling it that you want to use a custum error page or that you want all errors forwarded to a specific page.

To do what you first asked about you would add the following line to your .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

(or index.html, whatever your index page is).

To use a custom error page as I did in the example in the earlier post you need to create the custom page and redirect to it like this:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

My custom error page is named 404.html

Hope we cleared all this up for you.

 

i think better you use .htaccess file .

 

I also facing the same problem. i've been put htaccess "ErrorDocument 404 /index.html" but seems not working, i put it in html folder. where i should put this htacces, in the root folder or html folder ? thank you.