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Step Three: Restart the Web Server

To get the change to the configuration file accepted, you'll probably need to restart or otherwise nudge your Apache Web server so it knows that you've added a custom 404 error page (otherwise it'll continue to blithly serve up the generic error page instead).

There are a couple of basic commands to accomplish this task:

  1. apachectl is most common,
  2. or you might need to revert to a custom script like restart_apache,
  3. or tools like Webmin have a restart option,
  4. or, if this all seems like too much work, just ask a sysadmin to restart the server.

Regardless of which you choose, it's always a good idea to also check the log files for the Web server to ensure that everything was accepted and parsed without any errors.

On a typical Linux/Unix configuration, the log file would be at

/var/log/messages
because Apache (almost always) is configured to use the standard syslog mechanism.