I have a Joomla site running on Apache and Ubuntu 12.04. I wanted to show a custom 404 pages to be shown when a 404 error occure. I have made necessary changes to error.php file in my template directory to redirect it to '/404' directory where I have an index.html file with many images,css and java script.
Now when accessing a non-existent page, Joomla is redirecting me to root/404 but there I get a 403 Forbidden error from appache. The 404 directory is located inside 'htdocs' directory of Joomla installation.
Additional info: 1. I don't want to convert my 404 page into a Joomla template or article. 2. I am using a Joomla AMI from Bitnami on Amazon web service