.htaccess 301 redirect to the main page if the page is not found

Question

I cleaned up my site and dropped many pages. I now have 10 pages left from a 100 page site, all static html. I want any request to remote pages to forward 301 to the main page, but cannot define .htaccess rules!

Answer 1

I doubt that a better way than listing 90 pages manually in .htaccess:

redirect 301 /somedeletedpage.htm http://www.example.com/

if 90 deleted pages do not have common characteristics that can be overridden.

Answer 2

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