When redirect index.html to 404 error page, Apache doesn't load any page

Question

I have a website hosted on Apache server and on Ubuntu machine. When the visitor type mydomain.com/index.html I would like to redirect it to the custom 404 page error. So in the /etc/apache2/sites-available I edit the mydomain.com.conf file in the folling way:

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    ErrorDocument 403 /custom_403.html
    ErrorDocument 404 /custom_404.html
    Redirect      404 /index.html

But now when I type www.mydomain.com the Apache doesn´t load neither the index.html nor the custom_404.html. Instead, it shows a folder structure with what I have in the DocumentRoot.

How can I achive my goal without this issue? Thanks

Answer 1

I found a way to prevent users to access the website by writing mydomain.com/index.html. I edited the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/dir.conf and in the line where is write DirectoryIndex I changed index.html by somethingElse.html. Then in the DocumentRoot I also changed the name of index.html by somethingElse.html. I kept the configuration of the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain.com.conf so every time the user type mydomain.com/index.html it gets a 404 error custom page.