Ok, jsut about to set up my ip banning script, ok htacess

how do i ban a ip but still allow them to see my custom 403 (error.php?type=403) but at the moment it blocks the page,so i get the deault 403 and shows error finding the 403 page?

thanks,

The first part below is the ip blocking section of the .htaccess, and the last line changes the default 403 error to a page of your choice.

order allow,deny
deny from 127.0.0.1
deny from 1.2.3.4
allow from all

ErrorDocument 403 /your_directory/error.php?type=403

just tried it but it dont work

im using:

order allow,deny
deny from 86.21.65.226 
allow from all
ErrorDocument 505 /error.php?type=505
ErrorDocument 504 /error.php?type=504
ErrorDocument 503 /error.php?type=503
ErrorDocument 502 /error.php?type=502
ErrorDocument 501 /error.php?type=501
ErrorDocument 500 /error.php?type=500
ErrorDocument 400 /error.php?type=400
ErrorDocument 401 /error.php?type=401
ErrorDocument 403 /error.php?type=403
ErrorDocument 404 /error.php?type=404
ErrorDocument 405 /error.php?type=405
ErrorDocument 408 /error.php?type=408
ErrorDocument 415 /error.php?type=415
ErrorDocument 301 /error.php?type=301
ErrorDocument 302 /error.php?type=302

and im still getting the default and error serving the error.php page

The ErrorDocument handler might be relative to your base web directory, not the .htaccess file. Is it possible that your error.php file is in a subdirectory? For example, if your error document was located at www.example.com/hi/error.php, then it would most likely need to be ErrorDocument 403 /hi/error.php?type=403

No its in my root, you can see it here: http://calm.dansgalaxy.co.uk/error.php please dont go on it too much i dont want a flood of emails