Custom Error Pages
Custom Error Pages allows you to convey a personal message any time a visit encounters an error on your site. This page will allow you to create custom error pages for the following errors:
- Bad Request (Code 400)
- Authorization Required (Code 401)
- Forbidden (Code 403)
- File Not Found (Code 404)
- Internal Server Error (Code 500)
A little information about each case:
Bad Request (Code 400) -- This means that a request was sent to the web server, but the server is not configured or capable of handling the request.
Authorization Required (Code 401) -- This is the error message that results when you attempt to access a protected area and do not issue a correct username and password.
Forbidden (Code 403) -- This error is generated when a user tries to visit an area they do not have permission to view. This is a common error, if the directory or file does not have read permissions set.
File Not Found (Code 404) -- Probably the most common error. This results when a visitor attempts to view a file that does not exist on the server. This is common if the webmaster has placed an incorrect link on a page or a user tries to view a file that does not exist.
Internal Server Error (Code 500) -- This is a common error message when dealing with CGI scripts. If the CGI script was not uploaded correctly, has the wrong permissions, or is written incorectly.
When you click on one of the links to create a custom error page, you will see a text box, with buttons above it. The buttons provide a series of Server Side Includes that can be useful in telling the users what they were trying to do. They are listed below:
- Server Name -- This will simply print out your domain name, the name of the domain they were attempting to access when the error ocurred
- Status Code -- This will print the error code. This is linked to the one above, it will print 404 if the user encounter a File Not Found error.
- Refering URL -- This will print the name of the page that the user was referred by, or the name of the page that had the link to the current page which is causing the error.
- Requested URL -- This will print the name of the file that the visitor was attempting to view, when the user encountered the erro.r
- Visitor's IP Address -- This will print the IP address of the user that encountered the error
- Visitor's Browser -- This will print the name of the browser that the user was using when the error was encountered.
Below is an example of filling out the File Not Found error page:
You do not have to use any of the above Server Side Includes as they are not required. If you are an experienced user, you can use other SSI calls that are not listed.
After you have entered the HTML code that you want to be displayed for the specific error code, click the Save button. You won't need to change the filename.
Now following the above example, if you go to a page that does not exist:
You can repeat these steps for each custom error page you want to create.
