Panky — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:35:45 +0000

Thank you. Your help is greatly appreciated!

timjpriebe — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:25:50 +0000

You'll actually still need to funnel back to one central 404 page. However, that page will be a script that then redirects based on a variety of things.

The sample script they give on this page might be a good starting point:

http://www.web-goddess.org/phphelp/custom404.php

pr0gr4mm3r — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:39:08 +0000

Make this script your error page, and it will go to random places as specified in the array.

<?php
    $redirect_links = array('www.google.com',
                                    'www.yahoo.com',
                                    'www.ask.com',
                                    'www.ebay.com');
                                    
    $max = count($redirect_links) - 1;
    $random = rand(0, $max);
    
    header('Location: <a href="http://'" title="http://'">http://'</a> . $redirect_links[$random]);
?>

Panky — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:43:57 +0000

Some ideas were to filter using

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:08:06 +0000

What criteria are you going to use to filter the traffic?

Panky — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:04:27 +0000

Thanks, but not what I was looking for. This links it back to a central 404 page. I'm looking for a way to funnel my 404 traffic to specific, targeted areas within my own network of sites. Not back to one custom 404 page.

Yes, I could build custom 404 pages and control this using .htaccess, but I would end up with quite a large list of custom 404 pages listed in my .htaccess file. I was wondering if an option was available to do this outside of the use of an .htaccess file. I would prefer a script do all the work and not an .htaccess file, if possible.

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:41:11 +0000

ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.html'

...hardly a novel.

Panky — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:38:34 +0000

Basically redirect it, yes. I would like to be able to control various places 404 traffic could be redirected too within my own network of sites. I know that this can be done using .htaccess and custom pages, the problem is, I would prefer if my .htaccess file didn't become the size of a mini novel.

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:56:46 +0000

How do you want to filter it? Do you mean redirect?