How to change "The page you were looking for doesn’t exist"

**meridaman** · 11-03-2009, 12:49 AM

Hello,

if i discard a old or bad news, and the link is still in google, my visitors land on the page which say

The page you were looking for doesn’t exist!

i would like that they get on my index site, whith actual news.

andy ideas

thanks

**raghhav** · 11-03-2009, 05:23 AM

in this case, i would set a redirect for related news with high votes.

**Yankidank** · 11-03-2009, 06:44 AM

Open up your .htaccess and find:

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 /404error.php

Change to:

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

PS, you will need to insert any subdirectories in there if you are installed in a subfolder like /pligg. Resulting in /pligg/index.php.

**meridaman** · 11-03-2009, 11:19 PM

thanks Yankidank
i made your change, i have no subfolder, but still when i enter an no existing link
i got the text this site dosn´t exist and no index.php
even when i delete 404.php i get still the text and no index
i clean cache too, refesh and all

@ raghhay , and how do you thnink i get this redirect for related news with high votes ?
i have no chance to do it manually, too many news.
your idee is good, but i dont now how to do it.

**meridaman** · 11-04-2009, 03:14 PM

somenody have any idea, thanks

**raghhav** · 11-04-2009, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by meridaman

@ raghhay , and how do you thnink i get this redirect for related news with high votes ?
i have no chance to do it manually, too many news.
your idee is good, but i dont now how to do it.

then do one thing, re-create a 404 in such a way that visitor should not be knowing the page does not exist, subsequently give the category links to browse through the relevant news.

This way your page views also gets increased and visiting time and ultimately visitor would find more and better stories from you site.

**meridaman** · 11-04-2009, 11:37 PM

do you have an idee, php code ?
how to change the 404.php

**raghhav** · 11-05-2009, 04:19 AM

You are not suppose to change 404error.php, change www.yourdomain.com/templates/404error.tpl to what ever you want. As you can see it for my site, Error Page.

If you want to view the code, then right click and view source you will get an idea to change it.