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Ok my son is asking me is it possible to have your own Error page? he has a domain hosted with freeola and at present any error pages are Freeola ones, I think he would like to make his own but can it be done?

Ok my son is asking me is it possible to have your own Error page? he has a domain hosted with freeola and at present any error pages are Freeola ones, I think he would like to make his own but can it be done?

Yeah, look up ".htaccess tricks" in google, there'll be info there.

I think Freeola support .htaccess - most hosts should do.

I looked up google and it said how to make the .htaccess file and I did that I tried to upload it to freeola space but it dosent show? does that mean its not supported?

Freeola don't allow .htaccess files. If you need to use them, just use another host.

cheers for that, I did wonder as even if you upload the text file in ascii as soon as you rename it to .htaccess it vanishes like snow off a wall.

*shakes fist at SR Towers*

Yet another limitation. It's hardly a security issue either.

Whilst on htaccess, is this where I set directory permissions? I want to prevent directory listing of various folders on my server.

Yup, it is.

Sorry chaps but you don't know what you're talking about!

FREEOLA do allow .htaccess (thank god!) but don't encourage it (as a staffie said in a recent'ish' post) due to all the problems that it causes when people don't know what they are doing and FREEOLA then have to clean the mess up!!!

The reason you don't see the file when you FTP it, is because your FTP client is basic or configured incorrectly.

My free freeola webspace [URL]http://www.hmmm.ip3.co.uk/[/URL] has one. Try looking for a page that doesn't exist!

I thought twice before posting this. Please don't rock the boat! If you don't know what you're doing LEAVE IT ALONE

A FREEOLA FAN...

Hmmm... wrote:
> Sorry chaps but you don't know what you're talking about!
>
> FREEOLA do allow .htaccess (thank god!) but don't encourage it (as a
> staffie said in a recent'ish' post) due to all the problems that it
> causes when people don't know what they are doing and FREEOLA then
> have to clean the mess up!!!
>
> The reason you don't see the file when you FTP it, is because your
> FTP client is basic or configured incorrectly.
>
> My free freeola webspace [URL]http://www.hmmm.ip3.co.uk/[/URL] has
> one. Try looking for a page that doesn't exist!
>
> I thought twice before posting this. Please don't rock the boat!
> If you don't know what you're doing LEAVE IT ALONE
>
> A FREEOLA FAN...

Oh dear...