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I wanted to create a custom 404 file. This hosting company wants me to write the _script_. I am not that talented to do it. They sent me information that essentially says this: Use notepad to create a .htaccess file and upload it to the root or home directory. And add lines which specify the substitution. An example: ErrorDocument 404 http://wwww.mydomain.com/404.htm or I suppose 404.html. Then upload it. I did this using notepad and changed the extension from .txt to .htaccess and uploaded it. But it doesn't work. I don't really know what I am doing and probably didn't decipher the true how-to-do-it meaning from the information they supplied me. Any help on what I actually need to do to make the .htaccess file using notepad would be appreciated a lot. Abraham

Don't do it - you got bad advice - .htaccess only works on Unix hosted sites (not on Windows server sites) - if you have an existing .htaccess file you will over write it and make your site nonfunctional, especially if the Unix _base_d site has the FP SE (you need to edit the existing .htaccess on your server if the host allows it using FTP access) - it is not an extension (as in xxx.htaccess), it is a file name (as in .htaccess) - FP will not allow you to create a .htaccess file w/i FP

essentially the same thing that you will see in the #htaccess.ctl file in the _vti_pvt folder in your local web. The image protection .htaccess file mentioned here is a different one that lives in a folder that contains images and is used to prevent hot _link_ing. Also, on an apache server an .htaccess file ( different than the one used to stop hot _link_s ) is used in a folder you want to password protect and is different than the .htaccess file used for authentication when publishing etc. On an Apache the .htaccess file is a default that over rides any other file in a folder including a default .htm file and will open a