redirect 404 to similar urls

Question

I have a website with stories in it. I can have multiple types of stories within multiple categories like:

• children
• romance
• scifi
• action

Answer 1

Since the values are (presumably) being pulled from MySQL based on the title, you could put a FULLTEXT index on the title column, and use the MySQL MATCH() function to find the most relevant match, and redirect the user to that.

Although this will be by no means a perfect solution - the type of intelligence required to do this with any real degree of accuracy is veering dangerously close to Turing test territory.