RE: [cobalt-users] .htaccess for ErrorDocument

["Paul Alcock" <webmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kyle, I tried your method and it worked fine.
Here's the part of my test .htaccess file concerned.

ErrorDocument 404 /index.html
This worked fine and moved the visitor to the home page
although the browser will display the URL requested.

I also tried to use a relative path
ErrorDocument 404 ./index.html
But that failed

I then tried a page deeper in the tree
ErrorDocument 404 /Affiliates/index.html
And that Correctly directed the visitor to the intended page.

Paul.


> RaQ2. Apache web server provides a method for providing directory specific
> rules in a file that won't effect settings for the rest of the
> system. These
> settings can be placed in ".htaccess" in whichever directories
> they need to
> apply to. I experimented with the file for some time and am still
> at a loss,
> but these are my findings.
>
> The syntax used to reset the error document is:
>     ErrorDocument <ErrCode> <Relative Path>
>
> I needed to refresh the error page several times in order to get this
> statement to work:
>     ErrorDocument 404 /users/admin/api/error.html
> This is a simple and valid HTML file with no special permissions. When I
> type in another invlaid URL, it doesn't work again.
>
> The RaQ2 (and probably the others) store error documents in a
> directory that
> is aliased to "/error/" on all sites on the server. I poked
> around and found
> the relative location of the 404 error file and tried this:
>     ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
> This works every time -- and reads identical to the entry in the apache
> config files.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm unable to use my file
> here instead?
> The .htaccess file is being parsed every time I reload a page.
> The location
> of the error file (which is strictly for testing purposes) is completely
> valid and can be retrieved by accessing directly (manually typing
> it into my
> web browser).
>
> I appreciate any comments on the subject. Thank you,
>
> Kyle Scholz
>
>
>
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