Internet Explorer Not Showing My ErrorDocument

Custard7A · 11-30-2012, 01:21 PM

I don't understand this. I went to check my HTTP error pages with IE 9, but it isn't using my defined document..!

My .htaccess:

Code:


suPHP_ConfigPath /home/path/you/dont/need/know

Options -Indexes

ErrorDocument 400 /error.php?id=400
ErrorDocument 401 /error.php?id=401
ErrorDocument 403 /error.php?id=403
ErrorDocument 404 /error.php?id=404
ErrorDocument 500 /error.php?id=500

All the other browsers are using error.php, but IE 9 is using it's own HTTP error page!

First thing I did was make the document itself really simple, like this:

Code:


 <!DOCTYPE html>

 <html lang="en" dir="ltr">

   <head>

   <meta charset="utf-8">

   <title> Error </title>

 </head>

  <body> 

    <p> Something went wrong. </p>

 </body>
 </html>

So, I thought maybe it was because I was using dynamic links, or something in the .htaccess was interfering.
This is absurd of course, the browser shouldn't know what's happening on the server. I made it as simple as I could:

Code:


ErrorDocument 404 /error404.htm

No luck, it was still not my page in IE 9, other browsers were fine. I changed it to a file that didn't exist:

Code:


ErrorDocument 404 /why.htm

The other browsers complain about a misconfiguration when I try to trigger a 404, but IE 9 still has it's own page.

Grr, does IE just ignore my .htaccess? That would be stupid.

P.S. This is my site via a non-existant page: http://www.zombli.net/nothing. It's only a development zone, nothing pretty there at the moment.

Custard7A · 12-08-2012, 01:00 AM

I noticed IE isn't consistant on this site either. It shows it's own page, while other browsers show an error about a misconfiguration when trying to use ErrorDocument (Should probably be reported). Although, other sites are using their ErrorDocuments when I look in IE, so it must be something I'm doing wrong.

schleppel · 12-16-2012, 04:19 PM

I don't know if it's still true but IE used to require your error page to be above a certain size (512 bytes according to http://www.404-error-page.com/404-er...osoft-ie.shtml).

Custard7A · 12-19-2012, 03:06 AM

Yep, that is the cause of my problem. After I caused my file to be larger file-size it is now working. The things IE thinks are a good idea... It is quite frustrating.

I would never have guessed, many thanks schleppel.

Custard7A · 12-26-2012, 02:50 PM

I thought it was worth mentioning as a curiosity, I discovered there is a setting in Internet Explorer 9 for "Enabling friendly error messages". It will disable over-writing of error documents, but it's active by default so there is little comfort there..