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

[Surer Dink]

On 3/16/06, Floyd Arguello <floyd at icommnetwork.com> wrote:
> 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...

This has the effect I am trying to avoid - "I do not want to use a
redirect" - this code sends an external redirect to the browser to go
to 'index.php?id=18'.