I cant get error docs to work gggrrr

[marcjacob]

Can anyone help? Ive looked at a ton of tutorial all saying the same thing but i just cant it to work!

I want so you try to enter your password in the usual way, but clicking cancel or getting it wrong 3 times will send you to the join page.

Do you put the htaccess file in the members protected folder? This is what i have:

ErrorDocument 401 /join.html

Is it definatly a 401 or would it be forbidden?

htaccess works on the server, i wonder can error docs be turned off? But 404 ones work?

[Lee]

I beleive, you need to put the full url and it has to be in the same location as the dir being accessed.

Regards,

Lee

[marcjacob]

I tried that, it even works for 404 and 403

[Lee]

I tried that, it even works for 404 and 403

Ah you posted just as i was editing...

Full url and same location as the file i beleive it is.

So for example, you need to put a copy of join.html inside /members/

Regards,

Lee

[gaybucks_chip]

If you're using an Apache web server, it depends on how the Apache config file (httpd.conf) is set up. It's possible it may not even have an "ErrorDocument directive in the config file, or it may have been set to some generic page by your host.

If it's a dedicated server and you have root access, you just go into the httpd.conf file and edit the virtual host container for whatever site you're messing with. If somebody else maintains it for you, just email and ask them to point the ErrorDocument directive to a filename in your publicly viewable area.

Hope that helps.

[marcjacob]

If you're using an Apache web server, it depends on how the Apache config file (httpd.conf) is set up. It's possible it may not even have an "ErrorDocument directive in the config file, or it may have been set to some generic page by your host.

If it's a dedicated server and you have root access, you just go into the httpd.conf file and edit the virtual host container for whatever site you're messing with. If somebody else maintains it for you, just email and ask them to point the ErrorDocument directive to a filename in your publicly viewable area.

Hope that helps.

That helps alot actually Chip. Ill contact the host (for what thats worth, they know less than me ).

Ive tried everything lee says and everything my bofy has said plus read loads of tutorials. Im now certain ive got it right. I need a new host but cant be bothered transferring it all :shit: