"Throwing" an 404 error

[Anon]

Hi all,

I need to know how to "throw" an 404 error, when users are trying to acces a .php-page, that does not exist.

Right now my .htaccess looks like this:
ErrorDocument 403 /error/403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.php
Options -Indexes

I works fine you try to access e.g. a page called test.html, and that page doesn't exist, but if you try to access test.php (which doesn't exit either) you get the following error from PHP:
Fatal error: Unable to open e:\wwwroot\test.php in Unknown on line 0

It looks like PHP doesn't care about the contents of .htaccess?

I use Win2K, Apache 1.3.19 and PHP 4.x

Hope someone has the answer,
Kenneth

[oeveren]

Have you tried to put an entry in the httpd.conf?
Not sure if it works, but you can give it a try...

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.php

Checkout:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/custom-error.html

Dik

[Anon]

Unfortunately is doesn't work...
Good idea though! Any other suggestions?

Kenneth