Topic: Custom ErrorDocument 404: Cannot get it to work

[jeff00seattle]

I am trying to get a custom ErrorDocument 404 to work, but it is being ignored.

I have created a custom 404 HTML document here:
..\Apache2.2\htdocs\errordocs\404.html

I have tried putting the following script into both ..\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf and .htaccess within root directory ..\Apache2.2\htdocs\.htaccess

ErrorDocument 404 /errordocs/404.html

I call a non-existant page:
http://localhost/sam.html

The access.log validates this page does not exist by showing:
127.0.0.1 - - "GET /sam.html HTTP/1.1" 404 216

However, the site still defaults to the standard 404 page and not to my custom 404 page.

What can be the problem???

Thanks

Jeff in Seattle

[James Blond]

Hi Jeff from Nirvana town,
maybe your .htaccess is not working.
What did you set to AllowOverride?

[jeff00seattle]

This problem is total related to this posting:
http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?p=14061#14061

If a page cannot be noticed as an error, then I assume that it will ignore the custom 404 redirect.

Jeff in Seattle