Custom 404 error page

August 22nd, 2004, 3:15 am

I think this would be the correct forum, But maybe not.. Sorry if it is the wrong forum..

anyways, to my question.. I am currently building a web site, and have alot of the pages not done.. And lets say you click on a link that doesnt have the page uploaded.. it will read the following:

Quote:

Not Found
The requested URL /about.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.31 Server at http://www.koolzone.net Port 80

I think there is a way to make your own custom page for 404 errors.. But I don't know how I would go about uploading/installing or what ever it is you have to do.. So If some one could give some pointers, that would be great..

August 22nd, 2004, 7:03 am

You can make your own 404-error page as well as all the other error pages, If you use Apache as a webserver you just has to open the config and look for the page linked to file not found or something, dosn't really remember but it's really simple.

August 29th, 2004, 1:23 am

sorry.. that doesnt help me too much.. if anyone else can help it would be great

August 29th, 2004, 3:07 am

some links I picked up from google.
http://htmlbasix.com/customerrorpages.shtml
(this site will input some urls and generate the code for you)


http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/
Just a gneral .htaccess Tutorial, with custom error pages as well as the other simple features of the file.