How can I Redirect deleted posts pages to the homepage

[jolin]

Hi,

I had done an error when importing topics from my old board and I have to massively delete around 1400 pages that have already bein indexed by Google <img>

And I need to import them again.

The problem is that they will get different viewtopic.php?t=n numbers and be different pages.

Now what happens is that Google doesn't simply get a 404 on phpBB but get a page saying:

"The topic or post you requested does not exist"

Now Google would continue indexing this page as it seem to be legit with a valid URL but will create like 1400 dups and dead links for users.

Is there an option to 301 redirect these deleted topics pages to the homepage?

[Apocal]

Ouch! I wish I knew the answer to this one. If you'r hosted and use cpanel I believe that it has this ability.