HTAccess Please Help!

by Ricky Dawn

Posted: 12 years ago 4 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hello Guys,

I know that we should have a custom 404 page before anyone points this out

but this is not possible right now for various reasons.

What I want to do is 301 all 404 pages to the homepage. I tried doing this in htaccess:

ErrorDocument 404 /

But it only creates a 302 redirect, we need a 301 for SEO reasons!

Please can someone advise me what to put into my htaccess file?

Thanks very much!

RuFFCuT

Thanks very much!

RuFFCuT

#htaccess

Ricky Dawn 12 years ago

I cannot find out how to redirect them all with 301's.

your idea worked but only redirected it as a 302.

Thanks

Ricky
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CyberAlien 12 years ago

You could adding this to your htaccess:

ErrorDocument 404 /permanent.php
redirect 301 /permanent.php http://yourwebsite.com

That will send all pages not found to permanent.php and then 301 redirect all hits to permanent.php to your homepage. I haven't tried that but it makes sense
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Ricky Dawn 12 years ago

Yeah I know what you mean, but the reason I want to do a 301 is so I can pass the most link juice for SEO.

The way you have done it still requires it to go via a 302 at first

Thanks for your input!

Ricky
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- SilkySmooth 12 years ago
  
  Hi Ricky,
  
  If you have mod_rewrite enabled on your hosting you should be able to use the following:
  
  Code:
  
  RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/ [L,R=301]
  
  The rewritecond basically says if the file doesn't exist then apply the rule which will issue with a 301. Keep in mind that if you have other rules for rewriting then you need to make sure the above is placed after your other rewrites.
  
  Thanks
  
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