I have a very simple 5 page static site.
Instead of a 404, I want to do a 301 redirect to the index page whenever a visitor accesses a page that doesn't exist. I tried something like this:
ErrorDocument 404 404.htm
redirect 301 404.htm index.htm
but that doesn't seem to work. How would I get it to do a 301 redirect to the index page?
If you have only a fixed list of pages then you could do something like:
#map _all_ known pages on the site
RewriteRule url1 page1.htm [NC, L]
RewriteRule url2 page2.htm [NC, L]
RewriteRule url3 page3.htm [NC, L]
RewriteRule url4 page4.htm [NC, L]
RewriteRule url5 page5.htm [NC, L]
#if there's something that doesn't fit in the rules above then it means there's no such page so we redirect to home with a 301
RewriteRule (.+) index.htm [R=301,L]