Hello...........

First let me apologize if this is not the correct forum for my question. I am no programmer please excuse or redirect me. :-)

I have an .htaccess file in my root directory on my web site that redirects peopl who mistype a url within my site...... so they get a friendly page instead of a 404 not found message. It works "great" with Netscape, and Firefox.......... but just won't work at all with IE. I am not working "offline" in IE and the server for my web site is not on my computer (I was told that may be the problem) ..........

Any suggestions are really appreciated. Please remember I am not a programmer ........ but I can follow directions! :-)

Here is the .htaccess file:
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<Files ~ "\.dat">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.candylandcrafts.com
AuthUserFile /home3/candylandcrafts/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home3/candylandcrafts/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp
ErrorDocument 404 /404errorpage.htm

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Thanks for any hints at all !!

Joe Hussar
http://www,candylandcrafts.com/
candywebster@aol.com

Moved to Web Servers. :)

Did I do something wrong? I thought I correctly posted the question. I sent no PM that I know of.

A .htaccess question is most closely related to web servers.

The line at the bottom of nico_swd's post is part of his signature and it is not specifically there as a comment toward you or your post.

Did you try uploading a 404.shtml file to your root directory?

Not sure if this helps, but with cPanel servers, this works.