Hey Everyone,
I am doin a web development project for a client and there site is on a Cobalt OS 6.0. I want to use custom 404 pages...

Now the site comes up with:
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

When I use this as the .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

I want the client to have custom 404 file. Can anyone lend me hand, advice or guidence it would be great...

Brenden

EDIT: Fixed subject line

You need to add the right command to the AllowOverride line. I forget which one it is, but you can check at apache.org

Just search for errordocument and it should tell you what is needed.

Not sure if the system admins will do this for me... Do you know how to turn .htaccess files on?

Thanks
Brenden

AllowOverride IS the control for .htaccess files. That statement allows or rejects given commands in the .htaccess files. It has to be edited to do what you want.

Ok thanks for that, i understand now.

Thanks again,
Brenden

To allow .htaccess to work for a specific web sites, just do the following

login using ssh and su root
pico /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf

Add the following lines at the end of the file

<Directory /home/sites/siteNUMBER>
AllowOverride All
Options All
</Directory>


where siteNUMBER is the directory of the site you want.

then restart apache

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

They are ignoring my emails :mad: I am going to call them monday this way might be easier for them to do.
Thanks again everyone.