Re: FN-FORUM site check please & .htaccess question

date posted 1st November 2001 13:15

thanks, June

a very clear explanation, that I will impliment on my unix based sites. My
own site is hosted on a windows machine - is there another way to get a
custom error message?

iain
----- Original Message -----
From: "June B" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM site check please & .htaccess question


>
> Shouldn't really attempt to answer technical questions in this company,
but
> here goes...
>
> Custom 404 pages.....Make your page, upload it to your server as (if you
> were using the example below) 404.html....
>
> then, open up an ASCII text editor such as windows notepad.
>
> Write this:
>
> ErrorDocument 404 http://www.domain.com/404.html
>
> Using your own domain info.
>
> Save as something.txt - then:
> Upload to server (once there, change name to .htaccess ).
> You usually need to tell your ftp software to display all files, otherwise
> your .htaccess file will then disappear from view.
>
> You could do separate 404 pages for different sections of your site, by
> putting a .htaccess file in the folder you want it to apply to, and
> directing it to the specific 404 page for that section. But usually it
goes
> right at the beginning, so as to apply to all files. (sorry if I haven't
> explained that very well?).
>
> You can't do it like this on a windows server.
>
> June B
> http://www.jubo.co.uk
>
>
>
> > As part of the full, password accessed, site the client will log in and
> then
> > get to a page where a simple javascript., and their site code, will get
> them
> > into their own section of the site. The problem is that, if they type
> their
> > code in incorrectly they are given the standard 'can't find the page'
> > screen. I have been told that by creating a .htaccess file i can give
them
> > my own page that could say, for instance, 'Oops - did we type our site
> code
> > incorrectly?', or whatever, and direct them back to try again. a) is
this
> > possible? b) if so how? and c) is it possible on a windows server?
>
>
>
>
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