.htaccess file creation help... please

[WebCraft]

Hello fellow developers.
I am trying to locate some information on the web about .htaccess files. Not for password protection but for my 404 error docs. I want to customize them.
Can someone please guide me step by step through what the lines of code are to read and so on?

I already have a page that is named oops.html for the customized read.

What can I do?

Thank you in advance!

[Sualdam]

These links explain it in detail:

http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/1
http://help.mindspring.com/webhelp/r...ccessindex.htm
http://w3.ag.uiuc.edu/DLM/GoHTTP/htaccess.html
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~guru/htaccess/

That first one is very straightforward.

You may need to check with your host to make sure you can use them or have them enabled if you can't (I did).

[WebCraft]

Sualdam,

Thanks ever so much! That web site is a beauty! Will use it often I am sure.

[cyberious]

I've been using this simple method of redirecting to a custom 404 Error page.

Just add this line to the .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yoursite.com/404errorpage.html

It will redirect to your custom html page.