how to redirect 404 error to homepage

Today I removed 6000 pages from my autoblog (which is still giving me traffic) but I had a remove it for some reason.

Now I need to redirect all 404 error to homepage. Trying to do so by modifying .htacess but its just not happening.

I added ErrorDocument 404 /index.php to .htaccess but it is not handling the error.

For your info, I am using thesis theme.. ANY QUICK ADVISE

NEED SOME URGENT SOLUTION. Thanks in advance

Does your host allow custom 404 pages? If so then have a page called error.php and have this as the code:

<?php

header( 'Location: http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html' ) ;

?>

Then upload error.php and select it as your custom 404 page.

Obviously you will need the change the address in the code ive given you.

@ homenet. Thanks what I did is I copied your code and named it 404.php and replaced this file with original 404.php... and it worked like a charm. Hope will not have any negative impact on seo

No probs.

No I cant see it having any effect at all on your SEO.