Handling Error Codes

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Hi Everyone,

This is my first post to this list, so I apologize if this question has already been addressed.

I am currently running Apache 2.2.9 on a Windows XP SP3 box (development machine). I have a certain directory that appears in all of my virtual hosts as part of the backend servlet engine. I have added the following to my Apache httpd.conf file:


Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1


This works perfectly to prevent any public users from accessing that directory on my site. However, when I visit that directory on the site, I get an Error 403 (Forbidden). Obviously, this gives away the fact that that directory even exists. As such, I would also like to take a kind of "Security by Obscurity" approach by forwarding all Error 403 requests to Error 404. If possible, I would like to avoid messing with mod_rewrite and really don't want to create custom error pages for every error...although I will if that's the best solution. So, is there some kind of code that I can use that will just forward those requests to another error template?

EXAMPLE:


Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
ErrorDocument 403 some code to forward it to ErrorDocument 404


Any help will be much appreciated! :-)

Thanks,

Tanner

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