"DocumentRoot does not exist" and 404 errors not working in Apache2

Hi guys,

I'm having trouble with an installation of Apache 2.0.52 on Win2000 server.

I have 2 virtual hosts set up, one is just a proxy to a Plone website
which works fine and another is a PHP website.

on startup the error
Warning: DocumentRoot [D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/website/www] does not exist
is added to the error log, and while all existing pages are accessable
and run PHP fine any 404 errors show up as

"*Forbidden*

You don't have permission to access /nofile on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use
an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

I'm trying to set up a custom 404 page but I get 403 whether I've
specified an ErrorDocument 404 in the <VirtualHost> block or not. (there
is no custom ErrorDocuments set in the root)

Also if I change the DocumentRoot from "D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/website/www"
to "D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\website\www" or
"D:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\website\\www" then all pages generate a 403 error
not just missing pages.

Does anyone know how I can fix this so that 404 errors are sent to the
browser and that DocumentRoot does not exist error isn't added to the
error log?


Thanks
Andrew