redirect command for ALL "not found" pages?

[JeffG99]

I would like to cover all my bases in terms of any "not found" pages on my site. Ideally, any such pages would be redirected to the home page. Is this possible without knowing which pages they are? One way is in the .htaccess file, like this perhaps?

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule \/.+ / [L,R]



Or can I do it via cPanel somehow?

Thanks for your help!

[smooch1502]

Hi,

Simply make a custom error page and put a html redirect in it to the home page

[JeffG99]

Hi,

Simply make a custom error page and put a html redirect in it to the home page

Thank you for your reply - Could you give me a few more details regarding how to do this? Apologies, my computer skills are not as good as they need to be.

Where do I make this page? Where do I put this page? Where do I put the redirect? In the blog, in cPanel? In the .htaccess?

Also - will this satisfy the search engines?

Thank you!