How To Make A 404 Page

[dangercrow]

http://www.w3.org/icons/Can be just listed as an indexed thing, and i dont want that, and was wondering how to make a 404 page, or a redirect back to home page.I didn't knwo where else to put this post, so sorry if its in the wrong place

[jeffman]

Assuming your server is Apache:Put a file in that directory called .htaccessThe dot is required. It might make the file invisible, so it would be better to edit the file while it has a different name, and then change the name when you are done.The entire content of the file is this:deny from allYou will still have ftp access to the directory. Only http access is denied.

[boen_robot]

Note that the technique above creates a "403 Forbidden" page at that URL. I think you may also have to add to the .htaccess file something to explicitly allow all files in it (assuming that's what you want).I think a simpler way to disable directory indexing, while still allowing all files to be accessible is to use

Options -Indexes

in the .htaccess file.Alternatively, if you want to redirect users somewhere, you can use

Redirect /icons/ http://example.com/

(replacing http://example.com/ with the actual location of course)

[jeffman]

Ah! Maybe I misunderstood. If all that seems too complicated, and you just want to avoid directory indexing, you can always put a blank file in there called index.html