Re: [cobalt-users] .htaccess for ErrorDocument

["Worldwide Beauty Store Staff" <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You wrote:
> I would like to write a script to handle 404 (file not found)  errors on
my
> 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,

I hope the following URL helps - if it does - please post the complete RAQ
solution:
http://www.builder.com/Programming/Stupid4/ss04.html

-Max
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle D. Scholz" <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 4:14 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] .htaccess for ErrorDocument


> I would like to write a script to handle 404 (file not found)  errors on
my
> 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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