Redirect all 404 to Homepage.

[LouisMaitreau]

Hi Chevereto team,

Is there a ways to redirect all 404 errors to homepage ?

I want to do it beacause I bought an expired domain that had a lot of backlinks and I need to redirect every links to home page.

I already tried some code in the htacess but when I test a wrong URL, I'm not redirected to home page.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

 

[Rodolfo]

Hi,

It depends on the server, with some tweaks this will work for apache: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19962787/rewrite-url-after-redirecting-404-error-htaccess

You should show me some htaccess lines to get a better idea.

 

[LouisMaitreau]

Hi Rodolfo, Thanks for your help,

There's a lot of comment but here's my htaccess file :

# Disable server signature
ServerSignature Off

# Enable CORS across all your subdomains (replace dev\.local with your domain\.com)
# SetEnvIf Origin ^(https?://.+\.dev\.local(?::\d{1,5})?)$   CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN=$1
# Header append Access-Control-Allow-Origin  %{CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN}e   env=CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN
# Header merge  Vary "Origin"

# Disable directory listing (-indexes), Multiviews (-MultiViews)
Options -Indexes
Options -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/404/$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/500/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.heberger-image.fr [L]

    # If you have problems with the rewrite rules remove the "#" from the following RewriteBase line
    # You will also have to change the path to reflect the path to your Chevereto installation
    # If you are using alias is most likely that you will need this.
    #RewriteBase /

    # 404 images
    # If you want to have your own fancy "image not found" image remove the "#" from RewriteCond and RewriteRule lines
    # Make sure to apply the correct paths to reflect your current installation
    #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    #RewriteRule images/.+\.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp|webp) - [NC,L,R=404]
    #RewriteRule images/.+\.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp|webp) content/images/system/default/404.gif [NC,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|js|html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml|asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpe?g|jpe|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|swf|tar|tif|tiff|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule . index.php [L]

</IfModule>

Here's what I have with a 404 error :

(sorry, it's french but it means that it doesn't exist) And I would like it to be redirected to the home page.

My hoster is a french one with a Cpanel --> https://www.o2switch.fr/

Thanks again for your help,

 

[Rodolfo]

You need to redirect when a HTTP 404 is thrown, your htaccess redirects paths at /404, not when the HTTP status is being thrown.

If the 404 is generated by Chevereto then the easiest thing to do is to place the redirection in the 404.php template.

 

[LouisMaitreau]

Hi rodolfo,

I see what you mean so a code like that should work :

ErrorDocument 404 https://www.heberger-image.fr

But infortunatly, It still doesn't help.

Do you have an idea to help me please ?

Thanks a lot 🙂

 

[Rodolfo]

ErrorDocument towards a 404.html and inside there put a meta refresh or JS redirection.

 

[LouisMaitreau]

Hi Rodolfo,

Thanks, I've done it.

Here's the process :

I just added a php redirection in the 404.php file, juste after the first php tag :

<?php
  header('Location: https://www.heberger-image.fr');
  exit();
?>

No need to use the htaccess file. It looks to work well like that.

I prefered a php redirection to a meta refresh or JS redirection.

Thanks again 🙂