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thedarkman <odemgoldenslippers@googlemail.com> writes:

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Hi, still having big trouble with the 404 file. I've studied half a
dozen sites that explain how to sort this to no avail. My .htaccess
file contains:

RemoveHandler .html .htm

ErrorDocument 404 404.html

When someone mistypes a url I want that person to be sent to the
custom 404.html file but all I get is

404.html

Per [1], I'd assume that it's the intended behavior; the second
argument has to begin with a '/' to force an internal redirect.
(Alternatively, it can be the message itself, as it is in this
case, or can begin with, say, "http://" to force a redirect to
an external document.)

[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#errordocument

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong, ie the exact coding to put
in the .htaccess file?

It can't be more than a couple of lines, surely.

ErrorDocument 404 /where/is/404.html

The document location is the local URI "path"; thus, the above
will show the message from http://example.com/where/is/404.html,
where http://example.com/ is the server's own URI.

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