404 errodocument not working for php files

OK here's some more info:

the .htaccess file is:
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.php

If I try to visit xxx.htm which does not exist (by typing it into a
browser), it goes to the error page OK


If I try to visit xxx.php which does not exist, it goes to a generic 404
error page -NOT my error page.

If I try to visit xxx.xxx which does not exist, it goes to the error page OK

It is only php pages which do not work.

How do I fix this?

Thanks

"Tim" <tim RemoveThis @mail.localhost.invalid> wrote in message
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 > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:38:14 -0500,
 > "John B" <spamfree RemoveThis @hotmail.con> posted:
 >
  > > I have some 1&1 webspace. I use php files. I wanted to create a custom
error
  > > page and as per their help, I created a .htaccess file with a 404
redirect
  > > to my error page.
  > > This works OK for any URLs I try unless it has a php extension. If this
is
  > > the case, a generic 404 message is displayed. Their support team says
that
  > > they cannot fix this. Why?
 >
 > How about saying exactly how you've configured that, and a specific
example
 > of addresses.
 >
 > Ordinarily, you'd do something like:
 > ErrorDocument 404 /some/place/with/your/404/notice.html
 >
 > Which isn't a "redirect" but merely the source for the 404 notice.
 >
 > And is it a case of you're asking the webserver for something that's not
 > there, and getting a 404? Or are you asking something of the PHP system
 > and it's returning the error messages.
 >
  > > In addition, they seem to have some system whereby if you type a URL
where
  > > the document name is correct, but the extension is wrong (eg index.phx
  > > instead of php), it redirects to the correct page automatically. Whilst
this
  > > is OK normally, with certain URLs, it comes up with a 300 Multiple
choices
  > > error page with the following info:
  > >
  > > The document name you requested (/whatever.phx) could not be found on
this
  > > server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you
  > > requested.
 >
 > That's "content negotiation", if you don't need it, you may be able to
 > disable it via your .htaccess file ("Options -Multiviews"). Otherwise,
 > just be careful about how you name things.
 >
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:04:43 -0500,
"John B" <spamfree.DeleteThis@hotmail.con> posted:

 > the .htaccess file is:
 > ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.php
 >
 > If I try to visit xxx.htm which does not exist (by typing it into a
 > browser), it goes to the error page OK

Sounds pretty normal. However, does the PHP parser work on PHP files
within the /errors/ directory? I'm assuming that part works, since you say
it gets the error page ok.

 > If I try to visit xxx.php which does not exist, it goes to a generic 404
 > error page -NOT my error page.

This sounds like an issue with the PHP system not the webserver, in the
sense that when you ask for a ????.php file you're asking for PHP to
generate what you want (there's an extra parsing process in the chain). So
it sounds like you want to ask someone about PHP rather than Apache (so I
can't help much more in that regards).

One other thing that springs to mind is it any php request that fails, or
just for php files in certain directories? Perhaps you don't have a global
error document. Is that .htaccess file in a parent directory for what
you're experimenting with, and is it overridden anywhere else.

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