[SOLVED] redirect all wrong urls to index page

[isaac_cm]

hello,

how I can redirect all wrong urls from visitors to index page ?

 

Thanks

[sKunKbad]

You could make a custom 404 error page, set its location in your .htaccess file, and then put a redirect on that page . I do this on my website using javascript, because I like the user to know they had a 404 error. The redirect waits 10 or 15 seconds before redirecting, and that 10 or 15 seconds is counted down on screen. Try it, I think you'll like it.

[.josh]

so...why do you make your visitors sit around on the 404 screen that long?  personally, I hate it when websites do that. 

[isaac_cm]

can you give me some code , but I need the redirect to be instant

 

thanks

[ldb358]

put this in your .htaccess file

ErrorDocument 404 404page.html

[sKunKbad]

so...why do you make your visitors sit around on the 404 screen that long?  personally, I hate it when websites do that. 

 

They can go anywhere they want. The 404 page has all of the normal menus of the site. It also has a link for them if they don't want to wait for the redirect.

[isaac_cm]

Many thanks , I appreciate all help

[isaac_cm]

I did it from cpanel and it work with firefox but not IE or chrome

 

the .htaccess is as follow

 

# Use PHP5 as default

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

 

RemoveHandler .html .htm

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

 

I know that there is no ErrorDocument but there is file 404.shtml and it work !!

 

please advice

 

thanks

[dreamwest]

ErrorDocument 404 /index.htm

 

Or within any page

 

function redirect( $url ){
    if (! headers_sent( ) ){
    
        header( "Location: ".$url );
        exit( 0 );
    }
    echo "<script language=Javascript>document.location.href='".$url."';</script>";
    exit( 0 );
}

[isaac_cm]

the function redirect work but what make it called when the user type wrong url ?

 

many thanks

[dreamwest]

The htaccess option is the best

 

ErrorDocument 404 /index.htm

 

If your just using it to redirect wrong urls htaccess will do it for you, but if you really want to you can do it this way

 

ErrorDocument 404 /error.php

 

And in error.php

 

function redirect( $url ){
    if (! headers_sent( ) ){
   
        header( "Location: ".$url );
        exit( 0 );
    }
    echo "<script language=Javascript>document.location.href='".$url."';</script>";
    exit( 0 );
}

redirect("http://site.com/"); //redirect anywhere you want

[isaac_cm]

10/10 ! many thanks for your help