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Almeister9
Almeister9

Reputation: 161

404 redirect using .htaccess

I want to set up a rule in my .htaccess file so that any url that is enetered, that results in a 404 because there is no such file, automatically re-directs to the home page of the site: index.php

my .htaccess file looks like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^queenslandbeerweek.com.au$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://queenslandbeerweek.com.au/$1 [L,R=301]
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

This causes the index.php file to show but is broken and leaves the eroneous URL in the address bar.

I have read in the answer to another post that it has something to do with passing the erroneous URL as a parameter, causing the page to not load properly, because the page calls data from a database and it is passing the bad URL as a parameter of index.php but there was no hint as to what the solution is.

What I would like to happen, is if an incorrect URL is typed into the address bar, or if a link is followed, to a file that does not exist, the completely forget about this file, drop everything, and go to the home page index.php.

index.php calls data from a database

Is this possible using a .htaccess file?

I have exactly the same problem with another of my sites.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Al.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2560

Answers (2)

Patrick Evans
Patrick Evans

Reputation: 42746

I dont think you can directly redirect an error document but you can catch nonexistent files and folders

!-f means not a file !-d means not a directory, $1 is whatever is in (.*) (the path in the url)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /index.php?errorurl=$1 [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 2

Kumar Saurabh Sinha
Kumar Saurabh Sinha

Reputation: 870

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

You can place the 404 error template anywhere you want. For example you could place all error messages in a folder called errormessages

ErrorDocument 404 /errormessages/404.php

Upvotes: 0

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