TweetYou are innevitabley going to have people directed to pages of your website which don’t exist any more. If you think of this in marketing terms, this is bad for customer relationship and return visits. There are many ways this will happen which we do not need to go in to. To resolve such issues, we need to create two files, a htaccess file which will point any problems out and re direct visitors to a new page which will be the second document.
Htaccess can be created in notepad, so open this up. Inside write down the following three lines. What each line does is if some one visits your website and ends up on a page that does not exist, the error that happens is noted and then you are sent through to the following web page within the same directory. This web page has been saved as notfound.html.
The notfound.html file offers the visitor a link to your home page and also to contact them. With error pages and re-directs, try to make them as inviting as possible. After all your visitor has ended up somehwere they didn’t expect obviously. So offering them alternatives is the minimum you can do.
Here is what the page looks like as the visitor would see it.
To make this work, save the htaccess file as ‘.htaccess’, notice the full stop before the word. Put this in your root directory of your website, along with your notfound html file.
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