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John Magnolia
Asked: 2011-08-11 09:03:44 +0800 CST

Error when creating a custom ErrorDocument 404 in apache

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I have a virtual server running apache2 on debian. I would like to create a default 404 error message in the apache2.conf for all my websites.

ErrorDocument 404 "/var/www/site/public/404.html"

The error I get after restarting apache is: Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

It works if I enter the URL although I dont want the page to redirect only use a default 404.html page.

debian apache-2.2 web-server

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You don't use the full path in ErrorDocument. Its relative to your htdocs root

    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument

    if your root is /var/www/site/public/

    ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

    You can also do a full url

    ErrorDocument 404 http://domain.com/404.html

    EDIT

    You can do this for each vhost then

    Alias /404 /full/path/to/404.html
ErrorDocument 404 /404
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