RE: [PHP] OT 404 Error Page

I'm about to work on something similar to this, here's the jist of it. Using HTDig, and a document along the lines of 404.php3, whenever someone gets a 404, instead, the 404.php3 fires up a search query for HTDig, then displays the results. Hopefully, the results are relevant. <g> marco -----Original Message----- From: Sefton [mailto:c.sefton@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 6:54 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] OT 404 Error Page I have done this on a few sites that I have made. Of course the server has been Apache. This only works with Apache but it works really well, and it doesn't have anything to do with PHP but what the hell. In the root directory of your site, (www/htdocs/) or whatever... upload a plain text file called htaccess.txt with the following line of information. ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yourdomain.com/error404.html Make sure to create a html file called error404.html and save it to the same dir as the htaccess.txt file. Using your FTp program WS_FTP or whatever, while looking at the dir of your website, rename the htaccess.txt file to read .htaccess That is htaccess with a period "." in front of it. This hides the file, and makes it mean something to the server. There is a problem with IE however, and that IE4 or higher will still use its own 404 pages. You can overcome this by creating your 404 page larger than 512k. Just add a graphic, logo or something. IE then realises that there must be a new 404 file and uses your one. Thats it, type in a bogus URL at your domain and walla, your new custom error404.html file will be displayed. Need to know more about it feel free to email. Regards, Chris Sefton c.sefton@xtra.co.nz <Website4S@aol.com> wrote in message news:58.3aed58c.274d9de7@aol.com... > Hi, > > This is completely OT and I apologise for that, I have tried search engines > all over the place and can`t find any decent information, so as this is the > only list I subscribe to I thought maybe one of you might know. Basically I > am looking for information on customising my own 404 error page, what server > priveledges would I need etc, > > Anyone with any info it would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks > > Ade > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net