Problem with .htaccess

[audiopro]

I have an odd problem with a .htaccess file which defies logic and I was hoping someone could suggest a possible reason for the behaviour.
I have cut down the contents for clarity but the problem still persists.
The problem centres around the Options indexes command.

The initial .htaccess file looks like this.

ErrorDocument 400 /cgi-bin/forbidden.pl?call=400&
ErrorDocument 401 /cgi-bin/forbidden.pl?call=401&
ErrorDocument 403 /cgi-bin/forbidden.pl?call=403&
ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/forbidden.pl?call=404&
ErrorDocument 500 /cgi-bin/forbidden.pl?call=500&
Options +indexes

I call the following URL in a browser

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain/images/[/URL]

and the browser contains all the images in folder.

I now change the indexes command (to hide the list)

Options -indexes

It successfully runs forbidden.pl

Remove the 's' from images (in the address bar)

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain/image/[/URL]

Displays the standard windows 'The Webpage cannot be found' window rather than running forbidden.pl.

Replace the 's' (return the URL to the previously working one)

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain/images/[/URL]

Still displays the standard windows 'The Webpage cannot be found' window rather than running forbidden.pl.
I have cleared caches etc. but nothing appears to affect the results.
In the full version, there are quite a few Rewrite rules which work perfectly so the .htaccess file is being processed.
I get this behaviour on all of our computers but when I view the URL through a proxy server it works fine.

Has anyone any thoughts because it is driving me crazy


Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[audiopro]

I should also mention that this is on shared hosting and I experience the same behaviour from the .htaccess files in the add on domains too.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[ChrisHirst]

and I experience the same behaviour from the .htaccess files in the add on domains too.

That is because "add on domains" are normally created in the document_root, most commonly public_html symlinked as '

http://www',

and the root .htaccess affects all folders and sub-folders in the tree equally.

Have you tried with
Options ALL -Indexes

And do any of your rewrite rules affect /image/ or /images/ ?

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[ChrisHirst]

By the way, you may get more assistance asking Apache questions in forum65

Chris.

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[audiopro]

Thanks Chris
I am running the .htaccess without any rewrite rules, for testing purposes, to remove them from the equation.
I will repeat the question in the other forum, as you suggest.


Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[audiopro]

After further experiments I have managed to get this to work.
It would appear that the error document needs to be over a certain file size to work, I have no idea what the threshold is but I added an 87k jpg to the error page and it works as expected.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[ChrisHirst]

For anyone following this thread, ... it continues at thread65-1739650

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