RE: [cobalt-users] Re-Directing users on a 404 error

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I don't think I flamed you.. I made what was an honest
> suggestion. Which was, that the time spent in making your point,
> that being, that it irritates you when people ask questions that
> you feel are answered in the archives, *could* be spent actually
> telling someone how to do the process...

I prefer to "teach a man to fish" so that he knows how to feed himself in
the future. My original reply provided the exact phrase "ErrorDocument"
which would provide the pointer to finding the answer, either on this list
archive, or via any decent search engine.

>
> I searched the archives... read the directives and am, maybe, a
> bit closer to being ready to attempt to make the changes to get
> the stupid cobalt generated "file not found" message changed..

If it was something that was peculiar to Cobalt, I would have spent more
time on it on this list. As it specifically relates to Apache, any Apache
server, not just Cobalt, IMO, it's really off-topic for this list. As for
specific to Cobalt, you could always edit the
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/error/fileNotFound.html file if you want to change
it for all the sites on the server. Just use absolute paths for any images
and links, or put image files in the /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images
directory as the server does and point to them there. (That's where it is on
my RaQ2)

>
> And no, I don't feel my message was wasted time. I felt the need
> to make a suggestion, you spent enough time in responding to that
> question with the same sort of answer that I suggested was "less
> than helpful" than it it would have taken to explain it to those
> of us who simply don't get it.

If you're at the stage of your hosting or work that you're asking basic
questions about Apache, I'd seriously suggest you first get at least a copy
of "Webmaster in a Nutshell" (Amazon.com). Not to be too harsh, but in my
case, long before I considered running my own server, I got a reseller
account from a host that allowed me the time to learn some Apache basics.

>
> I will, however, stand corrected if that will let us discontinue
> this back and forth discussion, it will serve no purpose..
>
> You are entitled to your opinion and most certainly are free to
> answer questions in whatever manner you feel is helpful to the list.
>
You're certainly welcome to your opinion as to what may or may not belong on
a Cobalt users list.
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Dan Kriwitsky