Quote Originally Posted by Website Rob View Post
You cannot use RewriteRule directives without including this line first: RewriteEngine ON
- by default it is OFF

You do not normally need to setup anything special for 404 pages. Hosters usually have automatic redirection to an 'shtml' page --
RewriteEngine On is in place - I just did not include that in my summary.

Without the 404 redirect line I was getting the standard Apache page