I want to specify an error page for error 404 and 403, so i want RewriteRule (.*) /errorpages/403.html for my 403 error and RewriteRule (.*) /errorpages/404.html for my 404 error. But every time I put more than one rewrite rule it gives me an error and my webpage goes down.

how can i get around that??

you don't use rewrite rules for custom error documents.

there you have two identical rules sending everything to two pages,


see another post of yours on error docs.
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/coding...ther-page.html

"By creating error files
You can simply create error pages and name them as follows:
error400.html
error403.html
error404.html
error500.html

Please place these files in the home directory of your domain.

By adding this piece of code in the .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /errordocument.html"

if I don't use rewriterule, then when someone visits my page, it goes to the location of the customized error page instead of just displaying the information.

I think you have something totally mixed up somewhere, you obviously have read http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewt...?f=17&t=490712 and not understood it.

Using this code

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /errordocument.html"

Would create rules that if a directory (-d) or a file (-f) does NOT (!) exist the requesting user agent would be send to a file called errordocument.html

What you need is the ErrorDocument lines as I pointed out in your other post

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/coding...ther-page.html

ErrorDocument 403 http://www.mypage.com/errorpages/banned.html
ErrorDocument 404 /errorpages/file.html
CheckSpelling off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /errorpages/file.html

that gives 'The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.'

when I use ErrorDocument 403 /errorpages/banned.html, it doesn't do anything and comes up with the default error message...

test one line at a time as .htaccess rules can often conflict and create a problem.

Have you any other rules defined earlier in the document ?

Mine reads as follows, nothing overly complicated in that.

ErrorDocument 400 /errors/?mode=badrequest
ErrorDocument 401 /errors/?mode=authreqd
ErrorDocument 403 /errors/?mode=forbid
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/?mode=notfound
ErrorDocument 500 /errors/?mode=serverr

Ibbo

ErrorDocument 403 /errorpages/banned.html
ErrorDocument 404 /errorpages/file.html
CheckSpelling off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /errorpages/file.html

deny from 67.153.
deny from 67.176.
deny from all

thats all i have in my .htaccess, and it doesn't work. that is why I am really frustrated. I am using 1and1, so it must be my host. the 404 responds because of the rewrite rule, but the 403 acts like it doesn't exist when I ban myself.