I followed the instructions and it doesn't appear to work for me. I'm using Apache2 on a Windows host.

I've created the .htaccess file and made sure that the Apache httpd.conf file is set to look for .htaccess files and also includes the 'AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit' directive. Template was also included and error.php uploaded.

All I get is the usual Windows 404 Error saying page not found.

Any ideas?

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Intex, sorry for my late reply. I am not sure why it wouldn't work for you. But the again, I haven't really had experience with either Apache 2 or Windows hosts. Can you use .htaccess files in general (like for protection directories)?

can i use this error handler for the forums only, and then a different error handler for my site.

like put a .htaccess in ../

and put your .htaccess in ../forums/

just curious if this is possible or not, or if i should just make the whole site goto the forum error handler. thanks.

Installed, tested, working as expected.

Thanks for the hack. :)

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Yes that should work. Have you given it a try?

not yet, unfortunately i am in the middle of finals week so i won't be able to sit down and work on my site until next week some time.

after installing the hack, all i get is:

i tried requesting a file like asdf.html which i don't have on my server and it doesn't give the 404 error. it gives the unknown error. after looking at the code that means that $_SERVER['REDIRECT_STATUS'] isn't being set. everything is setup up according to the install. any ideas?

EDIT: figured it out. in my .htaccess, the link i gave to the error.php file included my URL in front of it ... http://www.mysite.com/forums/error.php ... soon as i changed it to what was shown in the instructions ... /forums/error.php ... it worked like a charm. thanks!

how do we get this to use whatever skin somebody is using currently?