How to redirect or show a page rather than "Forbidden" when i have directory listings off (htaccess/unix)

Question

Hi, I've set it in htaccess so it won't display the contents of directories, rather it will just show the usual Forbidden page.

how can i either:

show a certain page or redirect to a certain page

rather than just this default "Forbidden" page?

thanks

Answer 1

Use the ErrorDocument directive of Apache to display a custom error document.

The appropriate error code for Forbidden is 403.