Deleted pages Still Indexed

[h2oski]

Hi
I have a problem where pages that I delete (such as products that are no longer available) from my website are still indexed by google.

Is there a way I can create a page that can be shown whenever someone clicks on an old link in google or any search engine. Possibly just forwarding them to my home page

thanks in advance

[RuralWeb]

Do a search this has been covered many many times.

[h2oski]

Forward page not found to home page.

Thanks I have looked around, all I can seem to find are details on using the htaccess file to forward to my domain name which I have had to do for multiple sites to my domain.

Google has indexed pages to my site for example

http://www.irvinecycles.co.uk/acatal..._now__150.html

I would like when this page is clicked on by someone in a search for them to be forwarded to my home page.

Can I use the htaccess file for this also and if so does anyone know the code I would need to use ?

thanks

[Duncan Rounding]

Try this:
ErrorDocument 404 /index.html

[h2oski]

Thanks

Thanks that worked a treat
I had to put the full Url in for some reason

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.irvinecycles.co.uk/acatalog/404.html

But it worked a treat

Thanks again