Look what happens when you mess with the .htaccess file!

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Whilst lounging around on Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:05:42 GMT, "Greyhound"
<m.burton2@ntlworld.com> amazingly managed to produce the following
with their Etch-A-Sketch:

> PHP and me don't get along too well.
> I respect those who harness it's true power!


Ahh, I can feel the love Mark =)


>
> I pay for the php bits for my site at:
> www.darlingtontown.co.uk


I think it'd look quite nice, but I see the issue, where not
everything is being parsed and trashing the layout (probably your CSS
stuff too?)


> and last night I foolishly uploaded a file called .htaccess
> to make my 404 page display instead of the norm at:
> http://www.darlingtontown.co.uk/404.html
> (quite good) but you need to wait and read the text


Or have read it before =P


>
> I was over-the-moon when typing an address incorrectly it worked
> but to my horror the once nicely laid out site with the nav bar
> like this: http://www.darlingtontown.co.uk/directory/index.php
> has vanished to all but the php-folder programs.


Ahh, now that's a much nicer looking site than what has happened to
the "real" site.


>
> This could not of happened at a worse time as the local press show
> interest in
> purchasing the site from me.
>
> Hopefully I can fix this but for time being hear I sit fairly close
> to real tears :::


Firstly, remove the .htaccess file. This should atleast then restore
your site back to how it was / supposed to be (it'll look nice again
for the suits ), then work on what's wrong in the .htaccess file.

For error documents, you want to use something like:


ErrorDocument 404 /path/to/404.html


>
> The moral of this story is to those of you who don't have the
> foggiest idea about php is
> NOT TO MESS WITH IT!


But that way you don't learn, and learning's more than half the fun
=D

PHP's easier to learn than Perl IMO (although I started with Perl),
it's like anything, if you research it enough to requirements (ie:
not everyone learns at the same speed), then PHP can prove to be a
very powerful and flexible language indeed, with a more
"user-friendly" coding structure than the likes of Perl =)



Regards,

Ian

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Thank you Ian for your kind reply.
The site 'thankfully' is now back to it's former glory
www.darlingtontown.co.uk

The problem was completely my fault.

I uploaded the .htaccess with the following contents:
'ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html'
and saved it to the same folder as where a file of
the same name already existed, but I could not see?

Thankfully the lovely folk at XCalibre Communications Ltd
backed up this file and re-inserted it to fix the problem
The original .htaccess file has the following contents:
'RemoveHandler server-parsed .shtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm .php3 .shtml
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.php index.htm

#AddHandler server-parsed .foo'

The folk at XCalibre added:
"If you need to do any other .htaccess configuration
just add the config commands to the .htaccess file that is
already there instead of making a new one "

Hhhhmmmm
I'm scared to do anything with this file!
If I added to it my:
'ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html'
where would I put it?
and if I did would the whole thing go wrong again?

Best not to even think about it LOL

Best regards
Mark Burton






"Ian.H [dS]" <ian@WINDOZEdigiserv.net> wrote in message
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> Whilst lounging around on Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:05:42 GMT, "Greyhound"
> <m.burton2@ntlworld.com> amazingly managed to produce the following
> with their Etch-A-Sketch:
>
> > PHP and me don't get along too well.
> > I respect those who harness it's true power!
>
>
> Ahh, I can feel the love Mark =)
>
>
> >
> > I pay for the php bits for my site at:
> > www.darlingtontown.co.uk
>
>
> I think it'd look quite nice, but I see the issue, where not
> everything is being parsed and trashing the layout (probably your CSS
> stuff too?)
>
>
> > and last night I foolishly uploaded a file called .htaccess
> > to make my 404 page display instead of the norm at:
> > http://www.darlingtontown.co.uk/404.html
> > (quite good) but you need to wait and read the text
>
>
> Or have read it before =P
>
>
> >
> > I was over-the-moon when typing an address incorrectly it worked
> > but to my horror the once nicely laid out site with the nav bar
> > like this: http://www.darlingtontown.co.uk/directory/index.php
> > has vanished to all but the php-folder programs.
>
>
> Ahh, now that's a much nicer looking site than what has happened to
> the "real" site.
>
>
> >
> > This could not of happened at a worse time as the local press show
> > interest in
> > purchasing the site from me.
> >
> > Hopefully I can fix this but for time being hear I sit fairly close
> > to real tears :::
>
>
> Firstly, remove the .htaccess file. This should atleast then restore
> your site back to how it was / supposed to be (it'll look nice again
> for the suits ), then work on what's wrong in the .htaccess file.
>
> For error documents, you want to use something like:
>
>
> ErrorDocument 404 /path/to/404.html
>
>
> >
> > The moral of this story is to those of you who don't have the
> > foggiest idea about php is
> > NOT TO MESS WITH IT!
>
>
> But that way you don't learn, and learning's more than half the fun
> =D
>
> PHP's easier to learn than Perl IMO (although I started with Perl),
> it's like anything, if you research it enough to requirements (ie:
> not everyone learns at the same speed), then PHP can prove to be a
> very powerful and flexible language indeed, with a more
> "user-friendly" coding structure than the likes of Perl =)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian
>
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I have dared myself and it's paid off!
now it's working just fine...
Nice to finally get there in the end!
Try: www.darlingtontown.co.uk/sillylink



"Greyhound" <m.burton2@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:a6ad8f3ddc3ee86b6ca6dffc9c56f9e2@free.teranew s.com...
> Thank you Ian for your kind reply.
> The site 'thankfully' is now back to it's former glory
> www.darlingtontown.co.uk
>
> The problem was completely my fault.
>
> I uploaded the .htaccess with the following contents:
> 'ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html'
> and saved it to the same folder as where a file of
> the same name already existed, but I could not see?
>
> Thankfully the lovely folk at XCalibre Communications Ltd
> backed up this file and re-inserted it to fix the problem
> The original .htaccess file has the following contents:
> 'RemoveHandler server-parsed .shtml
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm .php3 .shtml
> DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.php index.htm
>
> #AddHandler server-parsed .foo'
>
> The folk at XCalibre added:
> "If you need to do any other .htaccess configuration
> just add the config commands to the .htaccess file that is
> already there instead of making a new one "
>
> Hhhhmmmm
> I'm scared to do anything with this file!
> If I added to it my:
> 'ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html'
> where would I put it?
> and if I did would the whole thing go wrong again?
>
> Best not to even think about it LOL
>
> Best regards
> Mark Burton
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Ian.H [dS]" <ian@WINDOZEdigiserv.net> wrote in message
> news:oc2tgvssdb7dk2uetis0a5dpgd8ehqn1m8@4ax.com...
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> > Whilst lounging around on Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:05:42 GMT, "Greyhound"
> > <m.burton2@ntlworld.com> amazingly managed to produce the following
> > with their Etch-A-Sketch:
> >
> > > PHP and me don't get along too well.
> > > I respect those who harness it's true power!
> >
> >
> > Ahh, I can feel the love Mark =)
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I pay for the php bits for my site at:
> > > www.darlingtontown.co.uk
> >
> >
> > I think it'd look quite nice, but I see the issue, where not
> > everything is being parsed and trashing the layout (probably your CSS
> > stuff too?)
> >
> >
> > > and last night I foolishly uploaded a file called .htaccess
> > > to make my 404 page display instead of the norm at:
> > > http://www.darlingtontown.co.uk/404.html
> > > (quite good) but you need to wait and read the text
> >
> >
> > Or have read it before =P
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I was over-the-moon when typing an address incorrectly it worked
> > > but to my horror the once nicely laid out site with the nav bar
> > > like this: http://www.darlingtontown.co.uk/directory/index.php
> > > has vanished to all but the php-folder programs.
> >
> >
> > Ahh, now that's a much nicer looking site than what has happened to
> > the "real" site.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > This could not of happened at a worse time as the local press show
> > > interest in
> > > purchasing the site from me.
> > >
> > > Hopefully I can fix this but for time being hear I sit fairly close
> > > to real tears :::
> >
> >
> > Firstly, remove the .htaccess file. This should atleast then restore
> > your site back to how it was / supposed to be (it'll look nice again
> > for the suits ), then work on what's wrong in the .htaccess file.
> >
> > For error documents, you want to use something like:
> >
> >
> > ErrorDocument 404 /path/to/404.html
> >
> >
> > >
> > > The moral of this story is to those of you who don't have the
> > > foggiest idea about php is
> > > NOT TO MESS WITH IT!
> >
> >
> > But that way you don't learn, and learning's more than half the fun
> > =D
> >
> > PHP's easier to learn than Perl IMO (although I started with Perl),
> > it's like anything, if you research it enough to requirements (ie:
> > not everyone learns at the same speed), then PHP can prove to be a
> > very powerful and flexible language indeed, with a more
> > "user-friendly" coding structure than the likes of Perl =)
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ian
> >
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> > Ian.H [Design & Development]
> > digiServ Network - Web solutions
> > www.digiserv.net | irc.digiserv.net | forum.digiserv.net
> > Programming, Web design, development & hosting.
>
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