{"id":45,"date":"2011-02-16T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-02-16T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T09:29:08","slug":"redirect-404-page-in-joomla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/redirect-404-page-in-joomla\/","title":{"rendered":"Redirect 404 page in Joomla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Redirect 404 page in Joomla to cutom pages <\/strong>: 404  redirection is very common problem with joomla . 404 errors are also  very bad for SEO (search engine optimization). The very basic solution  to fix this out is<\/p>\n<p>1) Copy the file templates\/system\/error.php to your default template location templates\/&lt;template-name&gt;\/error.php using either your hosts file manager or with a FTP client such as <a href=\"http:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/\">FileZilla<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2) Open error.php for edit<\/p>\n<p>Change this original code near the top of the file<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:php\">\/\/ no direct access\r\ndefined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );\r\n?&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>To this (add the stuff in red). 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