I bought an old expired domain for the first time. Now the problem is google webmaster is showing me certain pages as 404 error which were on the old site for some pages which were on root i used

ErrorDocument 404 /404notfound.php

and they worked fine but my problem how to redirect pages like

/get_damnit/DAMNIT.html
/remedy/

I am unable to find any code to use in htaccess. Should i use

redirect 302 /remedy/ http://www.xyz.com/404notfound.php

but i m sure this is wrong.

What should i do handle these 404 errors at a directory level.

My second problem is I have redirected

http://domainname.com to http://www.domainname.com/
http://www.domainname.com/index.html to http://www.domainname.com/

but

http://domainname.com/index.html is being redirected to http://www.domainname.com/http://www.domainname.com/

Jasdeep

This is server management NOT SEO.

Just let them stay as a 404 response, after all, that IS quite correct if the pages are no longer there.

Next question
No, it will NOT affect your "SEO"!!

You CANNOT redirect the index page to the root because it IS the index page that is served out for root requests.
See this thread specifically post #8

Thanks chrishirst for the quickest reply as always.

For the first part
Ok i will leave the directories not found to 301 redirects

But for the second part i have already redirected index to root

ie http://www.abc.com/index.html to http://www.abc.com/

but i m not sure how to redirect

http://abc.com/index.html to http://www.abc.com/

And you may move it to correct category if you want.

but i m not sure how to redirect

http://abc.com/index.html to http://www.abc.com/

You don't do both, if you have already redirected the non www then adding in the index page redirect will cause a locked redirect loop.

Read the HR thread in the linked post or go directly to it (do not pass go, do not collect $200), and you will find the .htaccess directives for both redirects in four lines of code with NO loops.

Thanks again man I need to create an account to view the thread which i will do.

Jasdeep

The code is also here