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djidji

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Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 57

change 404 page on apache 2.2

i'm trying to change the default apache 404 message/page. i have changed ErrorDocument 404 in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to

ErrorDocument 404 missing.html

but i still get the default message. i have tried /missing.html /srv/http/missing.html and just about any other combination there is. but i still get the same message when looking for a file that does not exist. however http://<ip>/missing.html return the page that i want displayed. any ideas?

thanks.

Nicolae

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Registered: 2008-12-08

Posts: 9

Re: change 404 page on apache 2.2

A bit further down in the httpd.conf file, you'll see a line that says

# Multi-language error messages
Include conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf

Comment out the include and it should work. Apache uses this conf file to generate error pages in multiple languages; if you don't care about that you can probably safely comment it out. I'm sure there's a way to (safely) modify them to suit your needs, but I've never felt the need to mess with it

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,229

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Re: change 404 page on apache 2.2

Maybe silly question, but did you restart apache?

Zl.

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,237

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Re: change 404 page on apache 2.2

Yes, you will need to restart apache. `apachectl restart` is faster than using the rc script if you're concerned about availability.

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