Rather than show users an error page, I would like to be able to redirect them to the main index page of the site.

I figure there should be a relatively simple way to do this using .htaccess, but I'm not quite sure how.

Any comments or help much appreciated.

Well I think that if you can make your own 404 pages, you should just place a redirect on them.

This is what I use:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh"
content="0;URL=http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever">

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com/404.php
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.example.com/403.php
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.example.com/401.php


etc.

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com/


Lol! I didn't think it would be as easy as that - so much for wildcards and mod_rewrite - many thanks for that, recipher. :)