Topic: re-directing bad addresses

[darren]

is there any way if someone accesses a page that does not exist i kicks to the main page or specific page because i have a website that i have just updated and i am getting alot of hits to old pages that don't exsist any more.



has anyone got any ideas

[Todd]

Darren,

The easy way to do this is to set up a custom 404 page in Apache using the .htaccess file

An entry like this will do what you want

ErrorDocument 404 /error.html

Where error.html is the page you want them to go to instead of seeing the standard 404 error page.

Todd

[darren]

the question is where to put the .htaccess file in e-smith do you just put it in the /home/e-smith/files/primary/html dir