Page 404 How-To

[yakov-lev]

Well, it's my first day in the comunity,
and I can't find any topic on how to control (change) my 404 page... :dunno:

I believe it's very inportant to properly create one and with the right forwarding.

Somebody have to put such a tutorial here, possibly right below this headline.
Personally I know how to do these pages.
I just don't see here any info on where to drop my 404 page.

 

[asoit]

If you go to the control panel of your hosting account, I believe there is a tab there saying something like manage error pages or similar and that's where you change it.

 

[bubobubo]

Yup, everything's managed under the cPanel. :coolugh:

1. Log-in and scroll down to the bottom line, there's a table called ADVANCED.
2. Your proper option is "Error pages".
3. Feel free to edit all the common error pages, not just 404 (Not Found).

More power to your elbow!

 

[ichwar]

Yeah, there's more error pages than you can imagine. And cpanel gives graphics point and click editing for them all.

 

[zubair12]

you can use you 404 page there as bubobubo says..

Take a look to cpnel..

 

[adamparkzer]

I tried doing this before and I had some issues with the 404 page not properly working. If this happens to you, then you can make a fresh page in your public_html folder of the 404 error page that you want to use, then make some edits in your .htaccess file. This is what you want to add:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml

Or something similar to that, where /404.shtml represents the URL of your custom 404 error page.

 

[zubair12]

hmmm thats cool way..

 

[adamparkzer]

I wouldn't particularly say that it's "cool," it's more of the more technical and original way of doing it. The methods explained by the previous posters are valid with x10Hosting because it supports cPanel. Without cPanel, you would have to do everything manually, and creating the 404 page from scratch and editing the .htaccess page is the actual way that it's done. cPanel just makes our lives easier by offering shortcuts.