"<error404>$site//..." configuration doesn't work on Cloud Environments

[hfloyd]

Issue description

According to this PR - umbraco/Umbraco-CMS#10356, as of Umbraco v 8.16, the following 404 configuration should now work:

umbracoSettings.config:
<error404>$site//MyErrorPageType[@nodeName='404']</error404>

Since we have a setup with three separate sites, each with its own error page, I have used this format.

On my LOCAL environment, this works correctly - visiting a non-existent url returns the proper error page. But on my Cloud environments (DEV/LIVE) it doesn't work - I see the ugly white Umbraco 404 page. If I check the log on DEV, I see this message:

Message:
Could not parse xpath expression: "$site//ErrorPage[@nodeName='404']"

									
Exception:
System.Xml.XPath.XPathException: Namespace Manager or XsltContext needed. This query has a prefix, variable, or user-defined function.
   at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.CompiledXpathExpr.get_QueryTree()
   at System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator.Evaluate(XPathExpression expr, XPathNodeIterator context)
   at System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator.Select(XPathExpression expr)
   at Umbraco.Web.PublishedCache.NuCache.ContentCache.GetSingleByXPath(Boolean preview, String xpath, XPathVariable[] vars)
   at Umbraco.Web.PublishedContentQuery.ContentSingleAtXPath(String xpath, XPathVariable[] vars)
   at Umbraco.Web.Routing.NotFoundHandlerHelper.GetContentIdFromErrorPageConfig(IContentErrorPage errorPage, IEntityService entityService, IPublishedContentQuery publishedContentQuery, Nullable`1 domainContentId)

Ps. The v8 docs have not yet been updated accordingly, so I wanted to check that this is indeed officially supported
https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Tutorials/Custom-Error-Pages/index-v8

Version

Umbraco Cloud
Umbraco Id
Umbraco 8.17.0
Deploy 4.3.0.0
Forms 8.8.0

[TommyForsberg]

I can confirm this issue. We are having the exact same behavior in our project.