apache + .htaccess!

Hello peoples,

im having troble with damm .htaccess files!

ive tryed using them before(for 404 errors, and user authenication) but they never work

i did what the article said, but it wont work, the file sitting on my server, and if i make up a fake file name in the address bar, and hit enter, it comes up with the lovley IE version of file not found,

im thinking its maybe something in my apache settings???? does anyone have any ideas, cos ive got no idea at this stage

Thanks

Ben

Ben,

One thing you should note is that you will probably need to delete the 404 error page that IE references.

A little info on how 404 works. When you reference a page that is not found the HTTP server response with an error 404 back to the user's browser. Microcrap's IE browsers takes the liberty to provide their own 404 error page when they receive the error from the server. You can get around this by making your 404 error page larger than 512 "bytes" (i think maybe kb). However, a work around this in Apache is to use a redirect on 404 errors instead of sending the error back to the user's browser.

Check out my blog on creating custom 404 pages: http://radio.weblogs.com/0107154/ca.../php/index.html

This might help you out with the problems you are experiencing...