Error Document 500 Not Being Served

[artm]

Error docs for 404 errors etc work. But for 500 errors (Internal Server Error), the error gets written to the log, but all that gets displayed is a blank page. Also the response headers served are minimal (just HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error).

This is the same for all domains on the server. In <virtualhost> we have:

Alias "/error_docs" "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/error_docs"
ErrorDocument 400 /error_docs/bad_request.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error_docs/unauthorized.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error_docs/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error_docs/not_found.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error_docs/internal_server_error.html
etc etc

The 500 file does exist. 'apachectl configtest' shows no errors.

Any ideas?

 

[meto]

How about .htaccess - configtest doen't test it for errors.

 

[faris]

You are using custom error documents?

If so then, as I recall, there's a bug in...Internet Explorer I think...that causes this problem.

Something to do with the size of the file - it can't be too small.

Try adding a load of comments to the file...anything to increase the file size.

Faris.