[TYPO3] setting up page with 404 status whose content gets taken from a page with ?id=18

[Floyd Arguello]

Surer Dink wrote:
> Setting up 404 pages properly appears to be a very frequently
> discussed topic on this list, yet I have managed to not find anything
> that would even hint to me how to accomplish what I am searching for -
> I have a "site map" page that contains many useful links.  I have
> managed to set up .htaccess with RealURl to properly serve pages and
> used
> 
> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['FE']['pageNotFound_handling_statheader'] = 'HTTP/1.0
> 404 Not Found';
> 
> to return 404 for pages that are not found.  however the 404 page just says:
> 
> Error. Reason: "..." could not be found, closest page matching is ...
> 
> I would like to instead show the contents of my sitemap page (which,
> incidentally, is usually rendered through a templavoila template).
> Can someone please point me to how I can accomplish this?  I do not
> want to use a redirect - I want to serve a page, with 404 status, but
> I want its contents to be the result of rendering the page with pid
> that I specify.
> 
> Thank you for your help.

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS["FE"]["pageNotFound_handling"] = 'index.php?id=18';

not tested, but seems logical...