Site-Wide Error Handler Filepath

My error handler page is located at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\portal\error_handler.cfm but cfadmin (for CF 8) wants a relative path. I've tried:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\portal\error_handler.cfm
Inetpub\wwwroot\portal\error_handler.cfm
wwwroot\portal\error_handler.cfm
portal\error_handler.cfm
error_handler.cfm
and http://www.hostname.com/portal/error_handler.cfm
Each time is says the specified file does not exist.
What should the filepath be relative to?
Thanks!

It has to be relative to a ColdFusion mapping OR the ColdFusion web root. The latter has always been the most reliable for me.
It is a little known feature of ColdFusion that it often has two web roots for which it will search for cfml templates. The web root defined for the web server such as c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ that you apparently have. But before searching the web server web root it will search the ColdFusion web root, that on my multi-home flavor of ColdFusion is c:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\. It is this latter directory that I put my site wide error and missing template handler fiels. Then I just place the file names in the appropiate fields in the administrator.
If you have a default backslash (\) mapping to your web root defined in the ColdFusion administrator, you should be able to input something like "\portal\error_handler.cfm" but I have always had difficulty getting this way to work.

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