htaccess ErrorDocument not rendering

Question

i am trying to show an custom error message when a page is not found and on my .htaccess i added a line like this:

ErrorDocument 404 error/404.html

but this just shows me 404.html on the screen instead rendering the 404.html page and if i write it like this

ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.html

than it gives me an error

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Is there another way to do this to show the actual error html page ? Thank you, Daniel!

Answer 1

As per your description it appears that your error folder is inside DOCUMENT_ROOT/site folder. In that case following full path ErrorDocument directive should work for you:

ErrorDocument 404 /site/error/404.html