i have the following line in my .htaccess file which is situated on my PC at G:/xampp/htdocs/project/public_html/.htaccess
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
So when I enter any non-valid address, for example http://localhost/project/public_html/blabla , the following message appears:
Not Found
The requested URL /project/public_html/blabla was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 Server at localhost Port 80
But this is not my 404.html page!
But when I edit the ErrorDocument Syntax and include full link, i.e. make it:
ErrorDocument 404 http://localhost/project/public_html/404.html
but this redirects non existing links correctly to 404.html, but redirection is not what i want! I want a simple 404 error page!
Also one more strange thing is, when I remove the line completely from the .htaccess file, the error changes to this:
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
1/4/2013 4:27:46 PM
Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
creepy, eh? so could someone help me out and tell me whats going on please?
/ references the web root, so your paths don't quite make sense. Either move the file to the web root, or change the path to reflect the path relative to the web root. (Either move the file to /xampp/htdocs, or change the path to /project/public_html/404.html.)
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Is there a way, on apache server, to make a specified page, to send code 404 in browser?
I work on an application, where if you tap a url that is not recognised, the application sends code 302, and makes a redirect instead of a page error.html who send code 200 which is normal because is a page who exist.
I need to modify the code for page error.html in 404 from httpd.conf.
Can you help me please?
I've tried with ErrorDocument 404 /error, but the application does not send 404, it sends 302. I need to rewrite this 302 in 404.
create an error page 404.html on the httpd DocumentRoot.
Add ErrorDocument 404 /404.html in httpd.conf.
Restart Apache and access a page that does not exist.
I want to use local URL (relative path) to show my custom 404 error message and it doesn't seem to be working as expected. As apache documentation stated here :
The syntax of the ErrorDocument directive is:
ErrorDocument <3-digit-code> <action>
where the action will be treated as:
A local URL to redirect to (if the action begins with a "/").
An external URL to redirect to (if the action is a valid URL).
Text to be displayed (if none of the above). The text must be wrapped in quotes (") if it consists of more than one word.
Methods 2 and 3 are working correctly. For testing purpose imagine a folder named test with 3 files.
index.php: main page
404.php: a custom 404 page
.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
Now accessing this URL http://localhost/test/blah-blah does not show my 404.php page instead a default Not Found page is displayed with this message:
The requested URL /tests/test-htaccess/asdasd was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Any idea how to fix this?
You probably found the solution to your problem since the time you asked, but for anyone having the same kind of issue, I would say the problem is that you are running your site with localhost.
The message says that Apache encountered a 404 error when trying to get the file specified for Errordocument 404, so it doesn't see
/404.php
I suggest you create a fake domain in your hosts file and set up a vhost with it.
Hosts on OSX :
sudo nano /etc/hosts
Hosts on Windows, Right-click this file to edit in administrator mode :
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\Etc\Hosts
and enter something like this:
127.0.0.1 myfakedomain.com
To set up virtual hosts, you must uncomment the call to httpd-vhosts.conf in httpd.conf (near the end, using MAMP in this case)
# Virtual hosts
Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
but the location of this file depends of the stack you are using (Wamp, Mamp, Xampp, etc) so search with the keyword "Virtual host" in its documentation.
Then you will be able to run your site using
myfakedomain.com/
in your browser and 404 errors should be handled the right way.
Error 404
localhost
06/21/14 11:16:38
Apache/2.2.21 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0e PHP/5.3.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
I am working with xampp and joomla.... when i run my localhost in url it opens me the xampp page ....then if i try to run in url localhost/som(directory_name) then it gives me error
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
06/21/14 11:34:02
Apache/2.2.21 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0e PHP/5.3.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
my directory already exist...
You need to edit the .htaccess file. It might be hidden in the same directory.
I suggest you to put an index.php OR any other file inside the directory
and access it like localhost/som(directory_name)/my_file.php because your apache
may be configured not to list directory index. Let me know if your problem still
persist.
check joomla > global configuration > use URL rewriting, this must be set "no" in local configurations (xampp).
Pretty sure based on various examples (like the one here) I set things up correctly:
1) I created a file 'notfound.html' in the root directory of my site
2) I'm running xampp, ie. Apache web server, so based on the stuff I've read, Apache looks for a notfound.html in the root directory of a site when a non-existent page is typed in the browser, such as www.mysite.com/NotAValidPage.html and uses that notfound.html for the 404 error message
Here's what I've tried and the result of each attempt:
1test) I put my own notfound.html in my site's root directory and enter a non-existent page
1result) my notfound.html is not used, but instead the default 404 error from (I guess) my web server, appears and says:
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try
again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
2/14/2012 9:11:29 AM
Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
2test) I next added an .htaccess file to the root folder of my site and added this line in this .htaccess file:
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html
then I typed a non-existent page into my browser.
2result) I still see a default 404 error page, not my notfound.html, only this time the default error page says:
Not Found
The requested URL /mysite.com/indsadfaex.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying
to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
3test) I then modified my .htaccess file by removing the '/' before the name of my custom 404 error page filename as follows:
ErrorDocument 404 notfound.html
3result) Now when I type my site name followed by a non-existent page, I no longer see the default 404 error page -- the browser window is completely blank except for the following at the top left corner:
notfound.html
Not sure what to do here, seems like I am missing some subtlety -- any ideas are really appreciated.
EDIT: I doubt it matters but there are 2 other statements in my .htaccess file for redirection situations:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)$ theHandlerPage.php?theArgumentPassedIn=$1 [L]
The regex here simply says 'go to the very end of the URL typed in and match a contiguous string of characters iff no '/' or '.' is in that contiguous stream of characters, then pass those in by way of $_GET[theArgumentPassedIn'] to the file theHandlerPage.php.
I don't think this rewrite rule is coming into play here because it will not match on a bad page name such as mysite/badpage.html because of the '.' in badpage.html.
Okay -- I discovered a bit of unexpectedness.
1) I move my notfound.html error file to the parent directory of my site -- whereas before the file was located at c:/xampp/htdocs/mysite/notfound.html, I have now moved this file to c:/xampp/htdocs/notfound.html.
2) then I use ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html inside of my .htaccess file, which is located at c:/xampp/htdocs/mysite/.htaccess
And now when I type in the browser bar mysite/aBadfilename.html, my 404 notfound.html is showing up fine.
BUT THIS IS UNWORKABLE. I cannot have my notfound.html reside in the parent directory of my site, because I need a different notfound.html for each site I develop. I must be able to put my site's notfound.html in its folder space, ie. inside c:/xampp/htdocs/mysite.
Because c:/xampp/htdocs is the root folder of all web sites on the server.
Why is my web server looking for my-site's notfound.html in the c:/xampp/htdocs root directory instead of c:/xampp/htdocs/mysite? After all, I type mysite/badfile.html so the web server (in my opinion) should understand that notfound.html is in the c:/xampp/htdocs/mysite folder space.
Are you using Virtual Hosts ?
if so, i think there is a problem, open your httpd-vhosts.conf and look for a line where is DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/bla/blah/mysite/ and write down full path to a host, if it doesn't work play with Directory path. Hope it helps.
I have the following piece of code in my .htaccess file to force redirecting to custom error pages:
ErrorDocument 404 /ErrorPages/404.php
ErrorDocument 403 /ErrorPages/403.php
ErrorDocument 400 /ErrorPages/generalError.php
ErrorDocument 401 /ErrorPages/generalError.php
ErrorDocument 500 /ErrorPages/generalError.php
Everything works fine on port 80, but when it comes to SSL, the standard error pages are shown.
To be more specific:
http:www.mydomain.com/NoExistingPage.php redirects to the custom error page
https:www.mydomain.com/NoExistingPage.php DOES NOT redirect to the custom error page
am I missing something here?
Thanks in advance
Try putting a duplicate .htaccess file in the /secured folder and see if that works. The vhost for the https daemon is probably using /secured as doc_root which means even if the .htaccess from the regular doc_root is below the secured folder it will be ignored.