You shouldn't though.

thanks for this, it would be real helpful, but it's not working for me. instead of the png image i get a text, i right click the text, and click view image, it then gives me the 404.php page all blank. so basically i understand that it's not poiting to the gif anymore, but i dunno why it is not showing the png file then? any idea?

A link to your site would be useful :)

Edit htaccess file to give a full/proper url to your new 404.php

kindly explain proper steps in layman's terms...

u mean we shud create new htaccess and new 404.php, both of which we shud load in image dir of every style that our forum has?

Its explained as simply as possible.

hmm didnt work as expected. please open in IE-> http://www.officechai.com/testvbforum/index.php
see the empty image placeholders (scroll down) in main forum categories (not the header) on that very page..

I put the 404.php and .htaccess in here:
/public_html/testvbforum/images

i had some images in png, and not gif, same file name.. however, it still doesn't auto replace it. [i even changed the template to refer to .png] it still looks for testvbforum/images/styles/smartblue/statusicon/forum_old.gif but i do have testvbforum/images/styles/smartblue/statusicon/forum_old.png there.

i checked with my hostmonster guy, they do support this. any help appreciated.

The server can't find the ErrorDocument - the 404.php
Give him the correct path to this file, and he will find it.

How to give the correct path? sorry to trouble with silly questions, but i still can't get it working. this is the final mod that I need to configure, apart from one unrelated, before i could go live.

I've put .htaccess at 3, 4 places in the dir structure. where all shud i put 404 and where all shud i put .htaccess?

I'm new to .htaccess and php, as per the instruction I've added the files. still i dont see any result. can u please guide me little easy? :erm:

My server can find the 404 file, but it's just showing a blank page... ?

Hi Zachery,

I have now uploaded the .htaccess & 404.php file to the /images/ directory and give the full path to the 404.php file on the .htaccess and also uploaded a newthread.png and removed the newthread.gif img.

but I dont get the png image I just get text, I sent you a PM with my URL.

Thanks m8
Dan