.htaccess issue when including custom 404 error page

Question

This is my first time using .htaccess and currently my .htaccess file is redirecting to my custom 404 page. This is being handled with the following line in my .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

On top of this, I need to rewrite a few urls so that /addition/ points to /includes/addition.html (this is one example). So I add the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /addition/ /includes/addition.html

But this then serves me a 500 error when Is hold be getting 404 error. On top of this, when I point to mysite.com/addition/ the browser isn't fetching addition.html from my includes folder.

Would someone please explain to me how to have these two rules working without effecting the other, and correct my secondary rewrite rule?

Danke.

try to put first the ErrorDocument rule, and then all other rules — Nicholas Nur
– Nicholas Nur, Commented Jan 3, 2018 at 10:35
@anubhava: Admittedly, it should be in my includes folder. But it is currently in my site's root directory. So I don't believe this will be causing it. — DanMad
– DanMad, Commented Jan 3, 2018 at 10:38
@anubhava: Yes, it loads the correct file. I have reordered my rules as per @Nicholas Nur's suggestion and now the custom 404 loads correctly if I go to a directory that does not exist. However, if I punch in http://example.com/addition/ I am getting my custom 404 as well, rather than /includes/addition.html being fetched. Any help is much appreciated. — DanMad
– DanMad, Commented Jan 3, 2018 at 10:46

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-03 10:53:06Z

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Have it this way in your site root .htaccess:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?([a-z]+)/?$ /includes/$1.html [L,NC]

edited Jan 3, 2018 at 10:53

answered Jan 3, 2018 at 10:48

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DanMad Over a year ago

Thank you! This has solves the custom 404 showing up when I type in http://example.com/addition/. The only other thing is addition is one of a few urls that need rewriting. The urls only include [a-z]. How would the RewriteRule be written to handle any lowercase alpha characters, then find the corresponding file in the /includes/ folder? e.g. subtraction.html --> /subtraction/ as well.

DanMad Over a year ago

Thank you V much. This works perfect. I've also updated my 404 rule and included my custom error page in my includes folder. Thanks for picking that up, too. Marked as correct answer and upvoted.

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