.htaccess question

[bobby9101]

on my site www.ranktips.com say i go to www.ranktips.com/forum
now that page doesnt exist, but yet it takes me to my index.php which is what i want
my problem is that it appends the /forum to the end of the url even though it displays the directory?
i would like it to straight up send it to www.ranktips.com with out any sub folder
any ideas?

[minute]

Not sure how right it is, but may trigger something.

The forum doesn't exist.

In .htaccess you probably have

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

What this line does is serve your index page when you get a 404 error - page not found or wrong path or something.


What is happening mechanically I believe is that your 404 error is redirecting to your index page -

when you normally get a 404 error it will show the page URL in the browser

I believe this is normal behaviour and not sure what you can do -- but read below.

I think though that this thread is worth reading regarding the practise of linking 404 errors back to the index page - I'm thinking of creating a custom error page instead.

http://gsitecrawler.com/articles/error-404-200.asp

[bobby9101]

you are correct, i have the errordocumnet 404
however i had this same problem before i dadded that :(
thanx for the link though, i am readin now