different 404 page for a directory?

[iansmithdahl]

I'm working on the next version of a website in a /dev/ folder off the root public_html/.  The site hacks the 404 message in order to generate dynamic images on the fly, and I need to refactor some of that code on the dev site without touching the "live" 404 error page in the root public_html/ folder.

 

So, basically, I need to understand how to get a website to serve up a different error page for http://www.example.com/foo/* than it does for http://www.example.com/*

 

help?

[wildteen88]

Plan a .htaccess file within /foo with the following

ErrorDocument 404 /foo/error404.html

 

When a 404 error occurs within http://www.example.com/foo then Apache will serve error404.html from /foo.