Re: Redirecting from unreachable page on website

Richard Heyes schreef: >> ... > > Really, for URLs that don't exist you should be showing a 404, This > way the user doesn't falsely believe that the URL is a valid one and > keep using it. if the invalid URL (which outputs a 404 header) then automatically redirects to another URL then I think it's pretty clear that the original invalid URL is not being shown, even grandma understands the change in the addressbar (which is normally highlighted by a background progress-bar effect). technically you are right, often there are reasons for doing it wrong ... usually we refer to them as clients :-P > By using the ErrorDocument directive like Per > suggested, you can customise it to be distinct helpful, like this: > > http://www.phpguru.org/oh%20crap > > Using this method allows users to easily get to where they actually > need to be, plus you can potentially promote anything of yours that > you want to. yeehaw promote some crap I don't want ... we don't have enough of that on the tubes ... chocolate-covered adWord anyone? :-D