Changing 404 error page

[Muldrick]

I built my OSC site at www.myweb.com/new.

Then moved my completed site to www.myweb.com

Of course I now get a 404 error when people go to old pages like www.myweb.com/certain_page.htm.

 

Where is it, or, how do I change the 404 page so people don't see the generic "ERROR404 page can't be found". I want to put something more custom/nicer on those old pages, that directs them to the new site. (www.myweb.com)

[rick-b]

Add this to /.htaccess:

 

ErrorDocument 403 /index.html
ErrorDocument 404 /index.html
ErrorDocument 500 /index.html
ErrorDocument 401 /index.html

you can change the /index.html to what every page you want.... but you need to keep the /

[Muldrick]

hmmm, used smartftp and downloaded the file. I edited it and added what u said. It didn't do much, now an error page shows this: Not Found

The requested URL /obdII_main.htm was not found on this server.

 

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

I then downloaded the modified .htaccess file, and I'm unable to edit it back to the way it was. Its a "Read only file"

 

I tried to rename the .htacces.bak to .htaccess. That won't work, says I must type a file name.

 

:'(

[steve_s]

try this way then

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.myweb.com/index.php

ErrorDocument 302 http://www.myweb.com/index.php

ErrorDocument 301 http://www.myweb.com/index.php

ErrorDocument 302 http://www.myweb.com/index.php

ErrorDocument 400 http://www.myweb.com/index.php

ErrorDocument 302 http://www.myweb.com/index.php

ErrorDocument 500 http://www.myweb.com/index.php

ErrorDocument 403 http://www.myweb.com/index.php

 

although creating a 404 file would be better saying you have moved the site and do a search for the product ie a full oscommerce page

 

to see what i mean visit http://white-nova.co.uk/404.php

[Muldrick]

Do I put those lines in my .htaccess file?

Could you please show me an example of the edited text?