Hi, i have tried to set the 404 error by .htaccess but it wasn't working properly.

1. When the URL was something like magentatarrega.com/… but when it was something like magentatarrega.com/index.php/album-1/subalbum-b/ (a old exhibit i created 2 weeks ago) it was not working, redirecting me to a normal 404 error message.
2. This was my .htaccess:
3. RewriteEngine on 
4. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
5. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
6. RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]
7. #RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php
8. ErrorDocument 404 magentatarrega.com

1. So, as it was not working i asked my hosting (dreamhost) what to do, and they give me a solution that may be will give me problems in the future. The solution was to edit index.php file and write
2. header("Location: magentatarrega.com";);
3. instead of
4. front_error('File Not Found', 404);

Is this a proper way to a 404 error redirection? It works, but i'm not sure it will always work... what do you think? thanks!

Sorry for the code wrapping... by the way i did other site: dhosphotography.com

And it is strange, because it redirects you to home when you type a non-existent url... but it keeps the url on the browser...

Sorry for posting so much, it's just to say that now .htaccess file seems to be working. I've used same code:

1. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
2. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
3. RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]
4. #RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php
5. ErrorDocument 404 magentatarrega.com

it's is so strange than before it was not working and now it works... thanks!

No, it's not working... i'm coming back to

1. header("Location: magentatarrega.com";);
2. instead of
3. front_error('File Not Found', 404);

Is this a proper way? thanks!

Hi! Anybody can tell me if it is a proper way to edit index.php to redirect to url when error 404 happens? thanks!

great, thanks... you just don't want to answer my question...ok, i get it.

I thought it had been answered...I don't see every thread in here anymore (well, not every day).

We have not setup anything special for error pages - yet. It's a planned addition but right now we have some more important bugs and issues to work on.

The way it works now is that it will show your main page but it does alert Google with a header that that particular page is not found. If you don't want that, you could jumpstart things...

In the index.php file you are looking at above move lines 112-114 to the beginning of the sequence at line 95 - it will end up looking like this:

1.     if (!$OBJ->vars->exhibit) 
2.     {
3.         // we don't search engines indexing this
4.         front_error('File Not Found', 404);
5.         exit;

Now, you can customize the template for errors which can be found at /ndxzsite/error.php.

First of all... sorry for my umpleasant words... i have tried it but it doesn't seem to work... anyway, i'll try again this evening and see what happens.. thanks again.

It will work...works great for me... ;)

Is not working...i don't know why. I even spoke with a dreamhost technician, he was great helping me, but none of us made it worked... i will wait for upcoming versions to do it... :)

Why would you ask him for help? They aren't going to help with that...

If you placed the code at the right line, it will work - it's a very simple change. Show us what you have done...

Actually, I'm having trouble with it as well - I'm getting an error 500 page. My code, from line 93 to 117:

    if (!$OBJ->vars->exhibit)
    {
            // we don't search engines indexing this
            front_error('File Not Found', 404);
            exit;

        // try again with site root - the 'home' page
        $OBJ->vars->exhibit = $OBJ->db->fetchRecord("SELECT *
            FROM ".PX."objects, ".PX."objects_prefs, ".PX."sections
            INNER JOIN ".PX."settings ON adm_id = '1'
            WHERE home = '1'
            AND status = '1'
            AND section_id = secid
            AND object = obj_ref_type");
            
        // we don't cache these
        $CACHE->defaults['caching'] = false;
        
        header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");

        // we need a formal error page
        if (!$OBJ->vars->exhibit)
        {
        }
    }

I asked him why it wasn't working my .htaccess file 404 redirection and he kindly did some changes for me in the index.php to try make it working.... and he is still interested in this, last mail he told me to inform him about anything new... really nice agent.

Anyway, i did the changes you said Vaska, and it doesn't seem to be working:

Test 404

My lines from 93 to 117:

1. if (!$OBJ->vars->exhibit) 
2.     {
3.         // we don't search engines indexing this
4.             front_error('File Not Found', 404);
5.             exit;
6.         // try again with site root - the 'home' page
7.         
8.         $OBJ->vars->exhibit = $OBJ->db->fetchRecord("SELECT * 
9.             FROM ".PX."objects, ".PX."objects_prefs, ".PX."sections 
10.             INNER JOIN ".PX."settings ON adm_id = '1' 
11.             WHERE home = '1'
12.             AND status = '1' 
13.             AND section_id = secid 
14.             AND object = obj_ref_type");
15.             
16.         // we don't cache these
17.         $CACHE->defaults['caching'] = false;
18.         
19.         header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");

        // we need a formal error page
        if (!$OBJ->vars->exhibit)
        {
            
        }
    }

Thanks!