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Custom 404 messages?
- Thread starter truckster
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danielhozac
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The [tt]ErrorDocument[/tt] directive tells Apache where to serve error pages from. For example:
[tt]ErrorDocument 404 /my-custom-404.html[/tt]
would tell Apache to serve [tt]<your web root>/my-custom-404.html[/tt] each time it encounters a 404 error.
//Daniel
[tt]ErrorDocument 404 /my-custom-404.html[/tt]
would tell Apache to serve [tt]<your web root>/my-custom-404.html[/tt] each time it encounters a 404 error.
//Daniel
Truckster,
Check out this site for some info on custom 404's:
Keith
Check out this site for some info on custom 404's:
Keith
You can also define your custom 404 file location on a site by site/directory by directory basis using the .htacces file.
See the documentation for full details.
However otherwise its simple to either define it as danielhozac describes, OR even! you can write it as a "one" line of html in the httpd.conf as in:
ErrorDocument 404 <http><head><title>My Four Oh Four</title></head><body>Sorry you have come to a 404 page, please use your back button to return ....</body></html>
And you can use inline formatting, !there is a restriction on the length of the line though!.
See the documentation for full details.
However otherwise its simple to either define it as danielhozac describes, OR even! you can write it as a "one" line of html in the httpd.conf as in:
ErrorDocument 404 <http><head><title>My Four Oh Four</title></head><body>Sorry you have come to a 404 page, please use your back button to return ....</body></html>
And you can use inline formatting, !there is a restriction on the length of the line though!.
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