local / offline 404 page

I am trying to implement a 404 page for a local / offline website if there is a dead link or such, but cannot get it to work locally, but only in an online environment... are there different settings / code to achieve this?

The .htaccess file includes the following:


ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html


notfound.html and .htaccess are stored in the parent file directory.

We tested the 404 in an online environment, and everything was functional.

Would there be any issue with creating a 404 page for an offline directory, and how could this be overcome?

notfound.html and .htaccess are stored in the parent file directory. parent of what? Could you please show your local directory structure ?

parent of what? Could you please show your local directory structure ?

Sorry for the delay of my response.

All files are stored in a directory, locally.

Here is the directory structure within this folder

C:\Users\Cody\Documents\WEB\.htaccess
C:\Users\Cody\Documents\WEB\index.html
C:\Users\Cody\Documents\WEB\main.css
C:\Users\Cody\Documents\WEB\notfound.html
C:\Users\Cody\Documents\WEB\html\page1.html
C:\Users\Cody\Documents\WEB\html\page2.html
C:\Users\Cody\Documents\WEB\images\image1.jpg
C:\Users\Cody\Documents\WEB\images\image2.jpg
C:\Users\Cody\Documents\WEB\images\image3.jpg

Google Chrome points directly to index.html as the home page.

Just a reminder - the 404 error pages DOES display when uploaded to a server on the internet, but will not display if the browses reads the files from a local directory.

Maybe it is possible to change Google Chrome's built-in 404 message to suit my needs? Any ideas?

Do you have a local server in your machine? Are you accessing the files directly or by typing the server path, like http://localhost or something like that?

Chrome doesn't handle .htaccess files -- they're for the webserver configuration. As abduraooft mentioned, you need to be running a webserver(like WampServer, or XAMPP) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs) locally and accessing it via http://localhost or http://your.local.ip.address -- not file:///path/to/file/.

Will set this up, thanks so much. Will come back with any issues.