Redirection from 404 Error page to Index Page

Hello,

I have deleted some records from my site, an now it is showing 404 Error Pages for them. I want whenever 404 Error page will occur it should redirect to Index Page or any other page specified by me.

Thanks

 You can set it in the .htaccess like this:

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

You can change /index.php to any file you like.

Thanks for the reply mscott.

Is there any specific location where I need to place "ErrorDocument 404 /index.php" or can I place it anywhere in .htaccess file.

 You're welcome. I would place it at the very top or very bottom just so it won't get mixed up in all the Dolphin stuff.

 I'll try that, but in my last try I placed it above to the "<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>", and my site went down showing 500 Internal Server Error.

 It should work there too. Can you paste exactly the line you added?

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

I was reading the help page on the apache site and I saw that for custom errors to work AllowOverride in the master server config should be set to FileInfo. I think it should work if its set to all also. Do you think your host has the server setup so you can't over ride the error pages?

Here's the info: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/custom-error.html

Thanks for your work mscott.

Do you think I need to contact my hosting provider for the same...?

 You're welcome. Yes, let your host know what you're trying to do and they can check the master error log and let you know what's causing the 500 error. Let us know what they say in case someone else wants to do this.

 sure

If you have your own VPS or Dedicated server, you should go to Cpanel WHM area (yoursite.com:2087) to configure landing pages for 404, 500 or whatever error.  I did that for one of my site, I moved my host to another company and that setting still carried over.  

or the easiest way is look for that 404 page and insert a redirection script (very simple one) to send the visitors to the index page.

 Well, my site is running on shared hosting. Apart from that let me know from where I can put the redirection script

I contacted my hosting provider and they don't support FileInfo on their servers. As per them this is development issue and they provided 2 links which could be of any help

http://www.htaccessbasics.com/404-custom-error-page/

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Custom-404-html-Page.htm

I contacted my hosting provider and they don't support FileInfo on their servers. As per them this is development issue and they provided 2 links which could be of any help

http://www.htaccessbasics.com/404-custom-error-page/

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Custom-404-html-Page.htm

anyone who can help in this...?

Any one who can an

 I tried to search for 404 page for redirection, but didn't get it, please let me know where I can get it and how can I redirect 404 page to any other page (like index page etc...)

Anyone who has the solution of this problem...?

 I posted the solution, then your hosting company gave you the same solution (their top link). This is the way to do it, if your server is giving you a 500 error after you do it then you need to ask your hosting company to look at the error long and figure out why.