Apache htaccess redirect

Jorkim Kustafin · 07-23-2009, 01:18 PM

Hallo, i found an old threed in this forum, when searching for a problem on google.

I want to give a 404 error when the index.html file is requested, i already know how to do this in php, but i cant seem to locate any information about how to do it in htaccess.

I thought about just redirecting index.html to a page that dose not exist, but i would like to do it correctly from the start.

repo · 07-23-2009, 01:27 PM

You could try

Code:

Redirect /index.html /error.html

Jorkim Kustafin · 07-23-2009, 01:32 PM

I know, but thats not a "true" 404 is it? Im thinking about using mod_rewrite, to simply make index.html refer to the error document, and then throw out the appropriate headers from within the error document. Similar to whats done in http://brugbart.com/Tutorials/Manipu...ewrite_28.html

My guess is that the correct way to do it would be similar to below?

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index.html$ /404.php