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If you request a non existent page on a coldfusion site .It will not show up your normal Apache custom 404 page.

A trick to show a custom page ( eg: cferror.cfm ) when a non existant cfm page is accessed is:

Add the following entry to the .htaccess file in your DocumentRoot

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /cferror.cfm?%{REQUEST_URI}

All request to the non existent pages are passed to cferror.cfm page with the requested URL as argument

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