.htaccess issues - Custom Error Documents
 

I've used cusom error pages in my domains.

however - I think I'm missing something with regards to the logic. I could NEVER have:

ErrorDocument 404 /error.html

I always needed to have

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.domain.com/error.html

Almost all the "tutorials" I have seen with regards to this say you can do /error.html instead of the full domain but none explain the difference.

Why is this? Am I missing an option in my httpd.conf? Do I need to "enable" some sort of virtual directory resolution like followsymlinks?

did you happen to try just plane error.html ? with out the / I also is your htacces is in the same dir as the error.html page?

Yup on both counts :(

is there a error.html at / on your domain?

Yes.

http://www.domain.com/error.html works but
/error.html or error.html does not.

Bump?

If you're running virtual servers, you should define your error document in httpd.conf (that's what I do) and you can customize it for each domain quite easily.

It should work with the .htaccess method in the top level of the domain, but I have never had a problem with it in the httpd.conf.