Topic: Other ErrorDocument for subdir

[flatcircle]

Hello,

I have a website running which uses a .htaccess file.

I'm changing a lot of paths in my website and a lot of documents in a specific directory are indexed by Google.

Because all the files will be removed in this dir, a Rewriterule is not an option.

When visitors click on a link in Google to a page I removed, I want to return a custom errorpage where users can click to the new sections of my site but only for that specific directory. With this setup Google will get a 404 status code to clean up the pages which won't exist anymore.

In my virtal host I have AllowOverride All.

In the specific directory, I created a .htaccess file with

ErrorDocument 404 /subdir/customerror.htm

However, I still get the default ErrorDocument from my main site and not the one I specified in the .htaccess in the subdir.

Something else that I'm missing here?

Regards.

[James Blond]

you can work with DirectoryMatch or better LocationMatch, but notice that all subfolder in that subdir will have THAT different ErrorDocument not the default one.

[flatcircle]

Exactly what I need!
Thank you very much!

I just read the docs and seems to me that the difference between DirectoryMatch and LocationMatch is that DirectoryMatch also includes subdirs ans LocationMatch not, is that right?

[James Blond]

I've never tried that out. But the docs say so. Trial and error