There is an answer on stackoverflow.com/questions/1726860/apache-authentication-redirect-on-failure-reliably
Basically you send a html file as error document that does a redirect to your placeholder page:

<Location "/protected">
AuthUserFile /path/to/users
AuthName "This is protected area"
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user

#ErrorDocument 401 /register.html
ErrorDocument 401 "<html><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/register.html"></html>"
</Location>

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: Http-basic auth, else placeholder-page Is it possible to show a http-basic-auth, and when someone fails that test, show a certain HTML-placeholder-page? If so, how can I achieve that?

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