Our hosting company, IPower, have recently “upgraded” their servers and by doing so we have lost Custom 404 and redirects. They claim that .htaccess is incompatible with Frontpage, but its been just fine on the previous server which was Apache and now its on Debain, it’s not. Does FP have some hidden custom error page I have missed?
Thanks for input, but as I wrote iPower used to use Apache and, you are quite correct it coexisted fine with .htaccess and Frontpage, now they are using Debain which seems less tollerant. So I still need a workaround to have Frontpage extentions and Custom error pages. I know it’s an MS product, but surely this is a common enough issue for a solution to be found? Thanks
They’ve lied to you.
The idea that a .htaccess file cannot be used alongside FrontPage extensions is laughable nonsense. In fact, on Apache / *nix, FrontPage extensions rely on the .htaccess file to manage many features.
You will need to be able to edit your .htaccess file to be able to add custom error pages; as long as you don’t tamper with the other content in the .htaccess file, you’ll be fine.
If you don’t have shell access or a control panel tool to edit the .htaccess file directly, you can’t have custom error pages. If you can. the Apache documentation explains how to direct to error handling pages.