Cold hard website errors are horrible and unnecessary. All you need is a few nice looking .html files in your directory somewhere, then use .htaccess to reditrect to these when there is an error. Obviously, no errors at all would be better…. 🙂
The format for the .htaccess is :
ErrorDocument errornumber /file.html
For example, if the file notfound.html was in the root directory of my site and I wanted to use it for a 404 error I would use:
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html
If the file is not in the root directory of your site, you just need to put the path to it:
ErrorDocument 500 /errorpages/500.html
These are some of the most common errors:
401 - Authorization Required
400 - Bad request
403 - Forbidden
500 - Internal Server Error
404 - Wrong page
and they can all be redirected to the same page, different pages, or even a dynamic page….