diff --git a/packages/bridge/src/nitro.ts b/packages/bridge/src/nitro.ts
index 14ff640f13d..0233bcf2c14 100644
--- a/packages/bridge/src/nitro.ts
+++ b/packages/bridge/src/nitro.ts
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ export async function setupNitroBridge () {
   nitro.options.handlers.push(...handlers)
   nitro.options.devHandlers.push(...devHandlers)
   nitro.options.handlers.unshift({
-    route: '/_nitro',
+    route: '/__nuxt_error',
     lazy: true,
     handler: resolve(distDir, 'runtime/nitro/renderer')
   })
diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/core/nitro.ts b/packages/nuxt3/src/core/nitro.ts
index 861d442e6b4..dfe41a19641 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt3/src/core/nitro.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/core/nitro.ts
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ export async function initNitro (nuxt: Nuxt) {
   nitro.options.handlers.push(...handlers)
   nitro.options.devHandlers.push(...devHandlers)
   nitro.options.handlers.unshift({
-    route: '/_nitro',
+    route: '/__nuxt_error',
     lazy: true,
     handler: resolve(distDir, 'core/runtime/nitro/renderer')
   })
diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/core/runtime/nitro/error.ts b/packages/nuxt3/src/core/runtime/nitro/error.ts
index 451c658f0d2..b7e30e2f875 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt3/src/core/runtime/nitro/error.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/core/runtime/nitro/error.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ export default async function handleError (error: any, event: CompatibilityEvent
   }
 
   // HTML response
-  const url = withQuery('/_nitro/__error', errorObject as any)
+  const url = withQuery('/__nuxt_error', errorObject as any)
   const html = await $fetch(url).catch(() => errorObject.statusMessage)
 
   event.res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=UTF-8')
diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/core/runtime/nitro/renderer.ts b/packages/nuxt3/src/core/runtime/nitro/renderer.ts
index 2a46e5d45fe..b59525afcc1 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt3/src/core/runtime/nitro/renderer.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/core/runtime/nitro/renderer.ts
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ function renderToString (ssrContext) {
 
 export default eventHandler(async (event) => {
   // Whether we're rendering an error page
-  const ssrError = event.req.url?.startsWith('/__error') ? useQuery(event) : null
+  const ssrError = event.req.url?.startsWith('/__nuxt_error') ? useQuery(event) : null
   let url = ssrError?.url as string || event.req.url!
 
   // payload.json request detection