[Frans]

Hi,

I want to avoid redirection of 404 errors.
I have searched around, but I could not find how to achieve this.
I have found how I can redirect to a different page, but I want no redirect at all, just the error.

My .htaccess is the default one and does not contain any redirection instruction.

Is there a way to achieve what I want to ?

Thanks alot! Frans

[ShocK]

hi, do you mean something like this? No redirect just custom made error message - [Tutorial] Custom error pages

[nevermore93]

If you want to display a simple error page, then you will need to create a page with the text you want to display on the error and then direct it properly in the .htaccess file. The servers here default to the 000webhost front page unless you set up your own error page.

[Frans]

Thanks alot for your quick replies!

I already saw those solutions, but I do not want an error page at all, but instead want the browser to get the standard 404 message.

I'm wondering if an ErrorDocument line pointing to a non existing page will work. Can't try that now, but will do that later today.

Still open to other suggestions.

Frans

[nevermore93]

Not sure what exactly you are trying to accomplish, but it seems to be the hard way of going about it and I'm not sure why you would want to do it that way.

Even the standard 404 error message is a generated HTML page. Just create your own with whatever you want the error to say, direct it in the htaccess and call it done.

[Frans]

nevermore93: thanks a lot for your help.
It triggered me to dive further.

I ran a wireshark log.
On other websites when a page is not there I get a
HTTP/1.1 404 Not found
as status (and then indeed the 404 page).

With the default redirect, if a page is not there the user does not get a 404, but instead a redirect:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Followed by a redirect to error404.000webhost.com

What I want to achieve is that the user still gets this 404 status and not a 302. It might be that doing my own error page will give me the 404 and no 302. If so, I'm fine.

Best regards, Frans.

[Frans]

A small update.

After adding my own 404 catch page with ErrorDocument in .htaccess, the server returns my page with a 404 code (instead of the 302 code I get with the default error page.

Frans

[nevermore93]

As it should ;-)