creating a custom error while restricting access

[Tonu Mikk <tmikk@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I have set up two virtual hosts in my Apache 2.0 httpd.conf file running 
on Windows XP.  I am restricting which IP addresses can access the pages 
like so:
<Directory      C:/somefolder/*>
               # Restricting by IP access
               AllowOverride None
               Options None
               Order deny,allow
               Deny from all
               Allow from domain.maindomain
               Allow from xxx.xxx
               Allow from localhost
       </Directory>
When people are not in the allowed subnet range, they get a Forbidden 
(Error 403) message.  I would like to modify this message. 

I read that I could accomplish this by creating a htaccess file in 
htdocs and put an entry into that file that points to the custom error 
page.  My htaccess file now looks like this:
Error 403 Forbidden 403error.html
However, I still get the default error page.  I am not able to access 
the 403error.html directly either.  This is probably because, htdocs is 
no longer home directory for serving pages.  I tried placing the 
htaccess and 403.html file into c:\somefolder ,but that did not produce 
the custom error message either.

How should I create the custom error message when using virtual hosts 
and restricting access to the folder?

Thank you,

Tonu


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