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I want a customised 404 error page for my server, the page works, but my server does not show the page when a wrong url is typed.

How do I Configure Apache to show the customised 404 error page?

TIA

In .htaccess, enter the following line:
ErrorDocument 404 <url-to-404-page>

Already did that, it's not working

I don't actually know Apache very well, but you have to have .htaccess in the root of your website. Whether you have to have it elsewhere I don't know.

You don't need a .htaccess file anywhere, especially if it's your own server, because all that stuff could just be configured through httpd.conf.

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html.en#errordocument for examples/info about using ErrorDocument.

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Originally posted by Ezra
Already did that, it's not working

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Maybe you could post the code you used? And where is the error document located?

I think usually .htaccess files are overridden unless it's changed in httpd.conf (or is it just me? ) But if its your own server, using the httpd.conf for ErrorDocuments and stuff is handy

iirc, you can set your desired 404 target URL in the httpd.conf file.

I tried but I don't really know how all of it works.

There was this line in this httpd file with #ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html and I deleted the #, and named the customized 404 page missing.html.

But still no luck

And where is missing.html? I think it should be in the root directory of your web site. Also, make sure it's larger than 512 bytes, because IE doesn't like small error pages.

You should probably give the config an absolute path to your 404 page (since we don't know to what /missing.html is relative). For example:

ErrorDocument 404 C:/apache/htdocs/missing.html (try also using backslashes)