I am having problems with the 404 pages. I am forwarding a dozen websites to my new mini-site, but I just realized about 3/4 of my visitors are getting 404 pages. This is because they are trying to access (oldsite).com/example.html and it forwards them to (newsite).com/example.html (which does not exist!). I am forwarding them with the godaddy forward feature. When they visit any 404 page, I want them to be forwarded to the home page. Please advise me
I dont know much about this stuff but from the little i know i think you can solve this by having a custom 404 page in which you can redirect ur vistors to your new site or something. I ran a quick G search and found this: Hope it helps thesitewizard(dot)com/archive/custom404.shtml
try to redirect your website with .htaccess .you can use this and use 301 redirect or 302 redirect as per your requirement. The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested. 404 errors should not be confused with "server not found" or similar errors, in which a connection to the destination server could not be made at all. A 404 error indicates that the requested resource may be available again in the future .
Thanks you guys. I managed to get it to work. I editted the .htaccess file to include now when my visitors try to see (oldsite).com/example.html they get (newsite).com/example.html with the homepage showing