diff -urN thttpd-2.21-17/libhttpd.c thttpd-2.21-18/libhttpd.c
--- thttpd-2.21-17/libhttpd.c	Mon Jan 21 19:01:40 2002
+++ thttpd-2.21-18/libhttpd.c	Tue Jan 22 11:26:42 2002
@@ -1496,11 +1496,13 @@
     {
 	    httpd_realloc_str(&hc->hostdir,&hc->maxhostdir,strlen(vh_list[tmp].path));
 	    (void) strcpy (hc->hostdir,vh_list[tmp].path);
+#ifdef ERR404PERUSER
 	    if( hc->err404!=NULL)
 	    {
 		    httpd_realloc_str(&hc->err404,&hc->maxerr404,strlen(vh_list[tmp].err404));
 		    (void) strcpy (hc->err404,vh_list[tmp].err404);
 	    }
+#endif
 	    ext=rindex(hc->origfilename,'.');
 	    if ( ext==NULL) ext=hc->origfilename;
 	    else ext++;