MaggsWeb:7

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….