So I know this may seem a little strange but I for sake of consistency, I would like all my urls to appear in this form: http://domain.com/page/ So far I have gotten the regular pages working but I cannot seem to get the error pages working properly.
If the user visits a page or directory that does not exist, I would like the browser to hard redirect to: http://domain.com/404/ This directory, however, will not actually exist. The real location of the error page will be under /pages/errors/404.php
Also, although I do not need an exact answer for all the various errors (400, 401, 403, 404, 500), I will be applying whatever method is given to redirect all of these to their "proper" URL's (eg. http://domain.com/400/ http://domain.com/500/ etc.)
Any ideas?
Best Answer
Try this in your .htaccess:
.htaccess
The
ErrorDocument
redirects all 404s to a specific URL, all 500s to another url (replace with your domain).The Rewrite rules map that URL to your actual 404.php script. The RewriteCond regular expressions can be made more generic if you want, but I think you have to explicitly define all ErrorDocument codes you want to override.
Local Redirect:
Change .htaccess ErrorDocument to a file that exists (must exist, or you'll get an error):
404_redirect.php
Redirect based on error number
Looks like you'll need to specify an
ErrorDocument
line in .htaccess for every error you want to redirect (see: Apache ErrorDocument and Apache Custom Error). The .htaccess example above has multiple examples in it. You can use the following as the generic redirect script to replace 404_redirect.php above.error_redirect.php