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How to redirect to the right page and return 404 error

[Bentler]

I always leave redirect pages behind as a courtesy to customers when I move or remove a page, but tracking down all the link updates is a hassle. Anyone know of a way to return a 404 error for link checkers and SE's but still redirect traffic to a different page-- not a generic site-wide 404 page, but to either the new page or a substitute?

[Xoc]

I posted about how to do it using ASP under IIS in this thread: [webmasterworld.com ].

It may give you some ideas on how to approach the issue if you are running Apache, although it won't work directly.

[Bentler]

Thank you so much Xoc-- that's exactly what I was looking for.