Combining "ReWriteEngine" and "ErrorDocument"

Help!

[born2drv]

I'm having a problem trying to combine the "ReWriteEngine" with the
"ErrorDocument" redirect in .htaccess.
ReWrite works fine using the following syntax...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ../cgi-bin/shop.cgi?url=$1

And the redirect works fine link this:
ErrorDocument 404 [mydomain...]

BUT, I can't seem to combine the 2 functions. What I want to do is perform
the ReWrite ONLY when the page cannot be found. Something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ErrorDocument 404 ../cgi-bin/shop.cgi?url=$1
(obviously, this doesn't work)

The reason being, I want to put this .htaccess in my root htdocs folder, but
want users to still be able to access the .html files that are there.

Please help!

[jdMorgan]

born2drv,

This thread [webmasterworld.com] demonstrates how to redirect missing image files. You can generalize it to accomplish what you need to do.

Jim

[hakre]

nice pick jd!

[jdMorgan]

hakre,

I didn't want to write it (msg #12) twice! :)

Jim