: Custom Error Pages

You can create custom error pages for your web site using an .htaccess file in your web server root directory. Simply create a file named .htaccess (or edit the one that might already be in your root folder) and add the following line to it:

ErrorDocument 404 /errordocs/page_not_found.html

This will cause the page named "page_not_found.html" located in a folder named "errordocs" to be displayed if a visitor to your web site tries to access a page that does not exist.  The three main types of error documents are:

1) Plain Text

ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo.
 

2) Local Redirects

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
(to redirect to local url /missing.html)
ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl
(can redirect to a script or a document using server-side-includes.)

 

3) External Redirects

ErrorDocument 402 http://some.other_server.com/subscription_info.html

For more information about this, please see the Apache server documentation at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#errordocument.