ErrorDocument 404 and HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Hello,

I experience some problems with Apache 1.3.29 and error redirections.
I have a .htaccess with one rule : ErrorDocument 404 /err.php
If somebody goes to /this-page-doesnt-exist, he goes in err.php and I
can give some content. The problem is that Apache send a 404 code (in
first line), and ie 6 doesn't really like it, it seems to depend of the
time between the 404 answer and the html data, but it sometimes shows a
404 error. Many sites use this code (w3c validator for example). In the
web browser url, /this-page-doesnt-exist appears.

If the .htaccess contains ErrorDocument 404 http://mysite/err.php , it
works fine, a HTTP/1.1 200 OK is sent, and everything goes well, *but*,
the web browser then shows http://mysite/err.php as the url for the page.

How can I avoid getting a 404 code, and having the full url diplayed at
the same time ? I tried to send a header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK") with php,
but it doesn't change a bit.

Thank you for your help.

schrieb am Mon, 25 Oct 2004 02:44:36 +0200:

 > I experience some problems with Apache 1.3.29 and error redirections.
 > I have a .htaccess with one rule : ErrorDocument 404 /err.php
 > If somebody goes to /this-page-doesnt-exist, he goes in err.php and I
 > can give some content. The problem is that Apache send a 404 code (in
 > first line)
 >

That's not the problem. Put a static page there and you'll see that it
still sends 404 but everything is well. I assume the PHP page may send
another header conflicting with the 404. Check the http headers going in
and out.


Kai
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