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From: Hector Santos 
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On 11/26/2018 7:56 AM, David King wrote:
>
>
> OK I have a file withing the \errors\custom directory called notfound.html
which should, I believe return for a page not found.
>
> When I enter: http://www.military.world/errors/custom/notfound.html the page
displays correctly.
> The local directory location for this is d:\web\Military
World\errors\custom\notfound.html
> The Virtual Domain points to its public director as d:\web\Military World\
>
> However if I enter http://www.military.world/nonexistantpage.html which is a
non-existent page I get the standard wildcat Error 404 page rather than my
custom page.
> I accept that I maybe doing something wrong but I am confused as to what ?

Hi David,

This is a very good support question. I will answer in the mailing 
list since it will benefit others.

Ok, as of 7.0.454.4, these are stock files in the http\errors\ subfolder

- 2012/06/11 03:14:04 |     3922 | http\errors\readme_errors.txt
- 2012/05/29 02:54:41 |     2905 | http\errors\errors.wct
- 2008/12/25 11:45:32 |      772 | http\errors\NoClientAccess.wct
- 2008/09/24 21:15:48 |      473 | http\errors\NotFound.wct
- 2002/07/12 06:34:58 |      600 | http\errors\NotValidated.htm
- 2007/03/02 14:25:30 |     2415 | http\errors\NotValidated.wct
- 2008/01/07 08:28:40 |     1802 | http\errors\passwordchange.wct
- 2009/03/14 19:35:18 |       80 | http\errors\SignupAlreadyDone.wct
- 2002/07/12 04:27:38 |      208 | http\errors\SignupDupeAccount.htm
- 2009/01/17 06:40:24 |     1580 | http\errors\UserNotLoggedIn.wct
- 2012/06/11 03:14:31 |      144 | http\errors\verinfo.dat

You made a copy of your default wcat HTTP\template and HTTP\Errors 
into your VDG

     d:\web\Military World\errors\

The AUP Virtual Domains help explains what needs to be copied to a new VDG

     http://www.winserver.com/public/aup/Wildcat-Create-Virtual-Domain.htm

So now you want to customize the http\errors\notfound.wct, so you created

     d:\web\Military World\errors\custom\notfound.html

and it doesn't work for you, you don't see your custom web page.

The solution:

The custom replacement is not NotFound.html but NotFound.wct, so 
rename it notfound.wct and you will see it work.  The trick is match 
the file name of the stock template you are customizing.  So in this 
case, you want to replace notfound.wct, not notfound.html.

Hope this helps


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