Custom Error Pages on Apache

Error pages, such as “page not found 404” or “forbidden 403” can customized. A customized error page can direct users to browse your site elsewhere. You can also explain user how to report the problem to you instead of the administrator of the whole web server.

.htaccess settings

Create a .htaccess under your home directory (/home/username/) under your web directory (public_html):

# $HOME/public_html/.htaccess
# Customized error pages - http://www.iki.fi/karvinen/error_pages.html
ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/~myname/error_404.html
ErrorDocument 403 http://example.com/~myname/error_403.html
ErrorDocument 500 http://example.com/~myname/error_500.html

where example.com is your server and myname is your username.

Create the Error Page

Create a normal, static html page that is shown in the address you chose in .htaccess. For example, “$HOME/public_html/error_404.html”.

Tero's Error Pages

error 404 page not found
error 403 forbidden
error 50x server errors: 500 internal server error, 503 service unavailable

Custom Error Pages on Apache

.htaccess settings

Create the Error Page

Tero's Error Pages

See also