creating custom 404 error pages

[DVX]

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]

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]

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

[iago]

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

[Grok]

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

[iago]

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

[UserLoser.]

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

Looks like a free credit card give away to me

[hismajesty]

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]

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]

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

[iago]

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]

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]

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]

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

[iago]

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.