how to display a coming soon page when a page doesn't have an index page using htaccess

Question

my directory looks like this:

/
/comingsoon.php
/.htaccess
/domain1.com/ < folder
/domain2.com/ < folder

i can access domain1.com on maindomain.com/domain1.com or simply domain1.com

i want to display comingsoon.php when i get an 403 error. i tried this:

ErrorDocument 403 /comingsoon.php

but it only works on maindomain.com/domain1.com/ but not in domain1.com

and i don't want to put comingsoon.php inside domain1.com, i just want it in the root, coz i have a lot of accounts

Answer 1

I'm guessing that for http://domain1.com/, you've got the document root pointed to /domain1.com/, which means it will never be able to access files outside of the document root. You'll need to move the comingsoon.php file to the /domain1.com/ folder and include the same ErrorDocument.

Another option is to include the full hostname in the original error document:

ErrorDocument 403 http://maindomain.com/comingsoon.php

But this will change the location in the browser's address bar.