Support: Custom Error Messages

Not currently customized

Instead of the default error messages apache gives out, you can define your own custom error pages. You can find full details on the apache web site here. First, create a page for your custom error message. In our example, we'll provide a custom error page for the 404 page not found error. The error page could be named anything, but we'll call ours 404.html, and we'll place it in a folder called error. Now we need to tell apache about our custom error page. We can configure parts of apache using .htaccess files. It may seem odd to start a file name with a dot, but this is common in UNIX systems, and is used to hide files from normal folder listings. You may already have a .htaccess file (for example Frontpage creates one automatically). If you have one, just edit that. Otherwise, create it and add this line: ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.html Now try to bring up a file on your site that doesn't exist, and you should see your custom error page! Other errors you might consider handling include: 400 Bad Request 401 Unauthorized 402 Payment Required 403 Forbidden 404 Not Found 405 Method Not Allowed 406 Not Acceptable 407 Proxy Authentication Required 408 Request Time-Out 409 Conflict 410 Gone 411 Length Required 412 Precondition Failed 413 Request Entity Too Large 414 Request-URL Too Large 415 Unsupported Media Type 500 Server Error 501 Not Implemented 502 Bad Gateway 503 Out of Resources 504 Gateway Time-Out 505 HTTP Version not supported