Redirecting Users to the Correct Page After a 404 Error
Properly addressing 404 errors is crucial in preventing the loss of traffic to your website. In this tutorial learn how to rectify this error and redirect users to the right page.
In this tutorial, we won't be discussing how to create a 404 page as it's a relatively simple process and can be personalized to your liking. Instead, I'll be addressing a common issue - when a user enters a wrong URL, how can we redirect them to their intended destination? This is crucial in terms of both user experience and overall usability. As a website owner, I want to ensure that my users can access my content with ease, and I'll share some effective methods to achieve this.
First off you will need a list of every accessible URL on your site, this can be an RSS feed or a sitemap.xml
for this site. I will be using a RSS feed for this example but it doesn't matter what it is. We will take the feed and use RegExp to parse the URLs from the text like below.
let urls = rss_feed.match(
/\b((https?|ftp|file):\/\/|(www|ftp)\.)[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|$!:,.;]*[A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$]/gi
);