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Asked: 2026-05-30T06:03:09+00:00

I am attempting to write a .htaccess file to direct to and send index

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I am attempting to write a .htaccess file to direct to and send index with an error code. Example index.php?error404 or index.php?error501.

I can direct an error within the root directory using the code below.

ErrorDocument 404 index.php?error=404
ErrorDocument 501 index.php?error=501

Example http://www.domain.com/file_does_not_exist.php and this works.
Result http://www.domain.com/index.php?error=404

The problem is catching and sending to index.php errors from sub directories.

Example http://www.domain.com/directory_does_not_exist Or
http://www.domain.com/directory_and/file_does_not_exist.php.

The result is http://www.domain.com/directory_does_not_exist/index.php?error=404 and therefore the CSS for the index.php in broken.

I have attempted the code below with no success. I am trying to redirect back to the index.php by rewriting the URL.

RewriteCond $1 !^err[45][0-9][0-9]$
RewriteRule ^\/.\/\.php$ /index.php?s=$1 [R]

AND

RewriteCond $1 !^err[45][0-9][0-9]$
RewriteRule ^([/]?*)\.php$ /index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]

Any help would be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    No need to use rewriting; just use absolute urls in your ErrorDocument directives (begin them with a /):

    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
ErrorDocument 501 /index.php?error=501

    The docs show absolute urls in the examples:

    URLs can begin with a slash (/) for local web-paths (relative to the DocumentRoot), or be a full URL which the client can resolve. Alternatively, a message can be provided to be displayed by the browser. Examples::

    ErrorDocument 500 http://foo.example.com/cgi-bin/tester
ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/bad_urls.pl
ErrorDocument 401 /subscription_info.html
ErrorDocument 403 "Sorry can't allow you access today"
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