Say I add httpd.conf  ErrorDocument 404 /error/notexist.html where DocumentRoot/error doesn't exist, then I get 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /perl/test404/junk was not found on this server.<
+/p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle t
+he request.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7g PHP/4.3.1
+1 mod_perl/2.0.1 Perl/v5.8.9 Server at localhost Port 80</address>
</body></html>

[download]

in error_log  [Mon Mar 12 02:06:58 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist:  ...htdocs/error

So your problem is most likely an apache configuration issue

In reply to Re^9: Set HTTP Status code by Anonymous Monk
in thread Set HTTP Status code by molybtek

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