any wordpress gurus around.. I want external 404

[spacedog]

I'm using Bob's limau orange theme on a wordpress blog.. there's no 404.php

Anyway.. I want 404 to go to an external url not the default wordpress not found.. I added the errordocument directives to my .htaccess but it's not working.

Anyone know how to solve this?

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[Agent 488]

google "wordpress 404" you'll find some articles there.

[spacedog]

Originally Posted by budsbabes

google "wordpress 404" you'll find some articles there.

Yeah smartass.. I just spent the last two hours doing just that reading various BULLSHIT from there, NONE of which have ANYTHING to do with my question

[NickSunshine]

from adx-

Originally Posted by NickSunshine

i dont use wordpress, and have not tried this, but i found this at wordpress, and took a stab at it anyway.

hope it works :tup:

Creating an Error 404 Page WordPress Codex

right before this:

// begin the output buffer to send headers and resonse
ob_start();
@header("HTTP/1.1 $AA_STATUS_CODE $AA_REASON_PHRASE",1);
@header("Status: $AA_STATUS_CODE $AA_REASON_PHRASE",1);

put this:

if($AA_STATUS_CODE == '404'){
  header("Location: http://path.to/whatever");
}

[spacedog]

Originally Posted by NickSunshine

from adx-

Read slower

[spacedog]

got it fixed.. had to reupload some wp files that were fucked up and now works with 404.php added..
thanks guys

[Snake Doctor]

easiest way is to create a 404.php and upload it to the theme directory, and then just do the redirect from within that file with something like this

PHP Code:

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/where_I_want_them_to_go.html' ) ;
?>

Even though SD's problem is solved, someone will eventually find this thread through search and the resolution wasn't explained very well...and I fucking hate that when I come across something like that.

50 results on google showing threads about "how do I fix this?" and all of them end with the thread starter posting "figured it out....thanks"......and that's it....no solution offered.
It's fucking annoying.

So this post was my contribution to humanity.

[geedub]

i use a php redirect in my theme's 404.php
seems to be working out i guess

[fris]

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/