where does 404.htm live?

I read the interesting info in http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/15352#m_15353 and I wonder, if I create a 404.htm page, where should that live?
In the top level?
In the folder where my index page to the site is?
Or maybe one in every folder on the server?

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Usually it would be at the root level, but it may depend on the server and how it is configured. You could always experiment and see what happens.


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If the filename really ends in .htm, confirm that you are on a Windows IIS server. Most Web servers use .html for the file-type extension, and will blithely ignore .htm. (Even my spell-checker is underlining it with red dashes, as if to prove my point!) Microsoft is alone in using .htm, but Microsoft Web servers are thankfully fairly rare.

Walter


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It’s an Apache server. I create the file myself. So HTML it shall be.
@ Joe. Is it really trial and error?


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No, it’s not necessarily. If your server has something like cpanel or another control panel, it may tell you where to put the 404 file or allow you to define it.

But what’s wrong with trial and error? How do you think I got to where I am today? :wink:


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On 11 Nov 2008, 11:56 am, Joe Muscara wrote:

But what’s wrong with trial and error? How do you think I got to where I am today? :wink:

but…I thought I was the only one… (just kidding)


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