Redirecting to homepage rather than 404 error page?

The URL path or your error document new/err404. Html without the path prefix new is just err404. Html And that will be matched by your third rule.

The URL path or your error document /new/err404. Html without the path prefix /new/ is just err404.html. And that will be matched by your third rule.

You could extend that rule and exclude such the error documents: RewriteCond $1! ^err450-90-9$ RewriteRule ^(^/*)\. Html$ index.

Php? S=$1 QSA,L.

Thanks so much Gumbo. I just changed the /new/err404. Html to err404.

Html . Now it doesn't redirect to homepage, but it is not redirecting to 404 page as well. It just writes "err404.

Html" at the content and url stays as it was mistaken :/ – designer-trying-coding Oct 14 '09 at 11:19 3 @artmania: You shouldn’t redirect on errors. Responding with a 404 status code has a different meaning than redirecting. – Gumbo Oct 14 '09 at 11:23 I just edited to ErrorDocument 404 blabla.Com/new/err404.

Html and working fine. But as I have read at forums, it is not good to give redirections with domain... – designer-trying-coding Oct 14 '09 at 11:25 I second that you shouldn't redirect on 404s. Pages that don't exist shouldn't try to pretend they exist!

If nothing else, it's not helpful to SEO and Google advises against it. – Gabriel Hurley Oct 14 '09 at 11:26 I appreciate your kind help! I'm sorry I didn't understand what exactly you mean :/ if page doesn't exist, it just redirecting to err404.

Html . Or do you mean anything about the rest of . Htaccess codes?

– designer-trying-coding Oct 14 '09 at 11:30.

Why not just use: ErrorDocument 404 /new/err404. Html like you have on the first line? Are you wanting the 404 to stay relative to the directory that the user is trying to go to?

The user needs to know that the page is dead/bad, and so does Google. And you need to investigate where the 404's are coming from. Redirecting your 404's to your home page will tell Google that your links are A-ok, and you may hurt your rankings depending on how many links are being redirected, as Google may see it as duplicate content.

Say you put a rule that affects 5,000 pages - then google comes and sees 5,000 URL's with the same exact content - the home page, how does it know those were supposed to be 404's to begin with? Fix your 404's. And if you had legitimate content that needs redirecting, well, redirect them to their new page, or the closest semantic page available.

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