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Hi, I want to show no_picture.png if requested picture does not exists. I should do it with .htaccess. Thanks a lot.

A: 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  pic/(.*)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule pic/(.*)      pic/no_picture.png [L,E=STATUS:404]
martin.malek
A: 

In your /images/ directory, add this to your .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule no_picture.png [L]

That says, if the requested file doesn't exist, rewrite it to no_picture.png

Brenton Alker
Won't that include non-existent HTML or other file types?
random
yes, it would for anything. Which is why I mentioned it was aimed at a specific images directory. It could be changed to match only certain file extensions (as other answers have done).
Brenton Alker
+3  A: 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(jpg|gif|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .*$ /no_picture.png [L]

Let's break it down as to what each line means.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(jpg|gif|png)$ [NC]

Check to see if the requested file is of a file extension in the parentheses (). In this case, we're testing to see if the file name ends in either .jpg, .gif or .png

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

Check that the file is not there and it's also not a directory.

RewriteRule .*$ /no_picture.png [L]

If a requested resource/file passes all those tests, then it's an image that does not exist. So serve back the image of no_picture.png to the browser. This will keep the filename. If you want to redirect to the no_picture.png filename, change [L] to [R]

random
A: 

Hi, this should also work:

<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$">
ErrorDocument 404 "/no_picture.png"
</FilesMatch>