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How to handle 403 errors without redirecting to another page

My htaccess file currently handles 404 errors as following:

Options +MultiViews
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ 404.html [L]

I did not use the ErrorDocument, because it redirects to an absolute error path.

I want to stay at the same url but show a custom template for a 403. Currently the 403 shows the default error page of apache... I would like to show a custom error document here too.

How would I do this?

Thanks for your help ;)

Solution

  • You can use ErrorDocument with a relative target path . With a relative path ErrorDocument directive won't redirect your request but instead show the error page without changing the url. 

    ErrorDocument 403 /403.php