Htaccess question: ErrorDocument not working

General Discussion
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version: Ubuntu 18.04
Webmin version: 1.981
Virtualmin version: 6.17-3

I’m trying to use custom 404 page on my website. In my htaccess I added
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
but it has no effect. I get some standard page that says “File not found”. I also tried
ErrorDocument 404 https://www.domain.com/404.php
and Services > Configure SSL website > Error handling. No result. Not sure where this page is being loaded from and how to override it.

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Are you purging your caches when you make the changes?

As a test, if you post the base url of your site, someone can visit yoursite.com/ql;erkkgjwoj and see what error they get. If it’s your custom error page, then it’s working and you have a caching error.

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Which cache are you referring to? I tried restarting apache after the changes and I’m using incognito window to test. My domain is notaloss (dot) com

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This is the page I see for your 404 error:

404 page
404 page1366×633 56.8 KB

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OK. I just noticed what you’re talking about. It works like a charm on an html request but on some php request it’s showing the “File not found” page.

Two things:

  1. If you’re using Wordpress, try resaving your permalinks twice. That usually sorts that out.
  2. Make sure you have rewrite engine on.

Ex:
RewriteEngine on
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

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Thanks for checking that out. Yes indeed .html pages work like they’re supposed to.

I have this code as well to remove .php extension from URLs. Surely this must be the reason. Posting entire htaccess

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
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That should work. Yeah. That’s weird.

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When I comment out this part

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

it works properly. :thinking:

Any idea where the “File not found.” comes from? What’s virtualmin/apache ultimately resolving this to?

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Bump.

Everything works normally on localhost (xampp). Its virtualmin acting up here. Can someone suggest possible causes?

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do it on Apache directories level or configs level… htaccess would not work on virtualhost level, that’s why it does work on local host not on virtualhost

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