Nginx: Return 301 Redirect When 404 Error

Question

What I want to do whenever I get a 404 error on my domain, automatically 301 to the homepage.

I have a lot of old blog posts and such that were linked to, but I don

Answer 1

Here is the final solution that I got to work using webfaction.

server {
        listen             12440;
        root       /some/path/here/nginx/html/noahc/;
        server_name    www.domain.net, domain.net;
        port_in_redirect off;

        location /{
            error_page 404 =  @foobar;
        }

        location @foobar {
            rewrite  .*  / permanent;
        }    
 }