creating custom 404 error pages

DVX · January 28, 2004, 12:33 PM

recently i've found need of having to create custom 404 pages.. i don't like the default ones.. anyone know how i can do this? i am using plesk on linux btw if that means anything..

effect · January 28, 2004, 04:23 PM

I believe the standard 404 pages reside somewhere on your web server , simply making your own and then replacing it should do the trick.

Banana fanna fo fanna · January 28, 2004, 05:28 PM

If you're using apache, look at the .htaccess file documentation.

iago · January 28, 2004, 06:43 PM

It totally depends on your web server. Look at the documentation.

Grok · January 28, 2004, 08:48 PM

Let me get this straight --- you can't find your 404 page? :p

iago · January 28, 2004, 09:25 PM

It's usually stored at www.yoursite.com/iagoisthebest.txt

UserLoser. · January 29, 2004, 01:47 PM

Quote from: iago on January 28, 2004, 09:25 PM
It's usually stored at www.yoursite.com/iagoisthebest.txt

Looks like a free credit card give away to me

hismajesty · January 30, 2004, 04:09 AM

Quote from: UserLoser. on January 29, 2004, 01:47 PM
Quote from: iago on January 28, 2004, 09:25 PM
It's usually stored at www.yoursite.com/iagoisthebest.txt

Looks like a free credit card give away to me

Looks like "Free Credit Card Gateway!" to me.

iago · January 30, 2004, 10:22 PM

Quote from: hismajesty on January 30, 2004, 04:09 AM
Quote from: UserLoser. on January 29, 2004, 01:47 PM
Quote from: iago on January 28, 2004, 09:25 PM
It's usually stored at www.yoursite.com/iagoisthebest.txt

Looks like a free credit card give away to me

Looks like "Free Credit Card Gateway!" to me.

And guess what, that's the site's 404 page. You see?

quasi-modo · January 30, 2004, 11:31 PM

wow, all that html being read by my browser has a .txt extention. Interesting

iago · January 31, 2004, 12:54 AM

The extension doesn't matter. Anything can send the response, "text/html" or "text/plain", the extension only matters if that's how the content-type is decided.

phily05 · January 31, 2004, 11:01 AM

To actually answer your question, make a file called .htaccess in your root directory. Inside that file, type in, or copy and paste this:

ErrorDocument 404 /error404.html

Once again, in your root directory, create a webpage named error404.html. It will read from there. I have it working up on my site.

quasi-modo · January 31, 2004, 05:51 PM

Quote from: phily05 on January 31, 2004, 11:01 AM
To actually answer your question, make a file called .htaccess in your root directory. Inside that file, type in, or copy and paste this:

ErrorDocument 404 /error404.html

Once again, in your root directory, create a webpage named error404.html. It will read from there. I have it working up on my site.

Thats only for apache (as far as I know). For iis you have to set it in the dir settings/

Thing · January 31, 2004, 05:52 PM

He's using Plesk so he doesn't know what .htaccess is.

iago · February 01, 2004, 05:01 PM

Like I said, it's always different, look it up in your server's documentation. If you're using Apache, modify .htaccess. If you aren't, don't.

creating custom 404 error pages

DVX

UserLoser.

hismajesty

phily05