Whenever a page on your website doesn't load, an error message shall be displayed to the visitor. As there are different errors, there are different pages that will show up, but what is standard for all of them is that they're generic and almost certainly shall have practically nothing that resembles the layout of your website, which may be annoying for any site visitor. This is the primary reason why website hosting providers have introduced a feature called Custom Error Pages. For a number of different errors, visitors shall see your custom made content, which may be informative or amusing, depending on your preference, and that will match the style and design of your site, so the pages will not seem like they aren't part of your Internet site at all. You can use this option for numerous errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).

Custom Error Pages in Cloud Hosting

The custom error pages function is offered with each cloud hosting plan that we offer and you shall be able to replace the generic pages with your own with no more than a couple of mouse clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. You shall need to create the actual files and to upload them to your account, then to set them for a given domain or subdomain through the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel. You can easily do this for each and every Internet site hosted inside the account individually, so that every group of custom made pages shall have the very same style and design as the site it is part of. If required, you may always return back to a default page from our system or to the default Apache server page. An alternate way to set custom error pages is to create an .htaccess file inside the domain/subdomain root folder and to add a few lines in it. If you never done this before, you could simply copy the needed program code from our Help article on this subject.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Servers

All of our semi-dedicated servers support tailor-made error pages, so you shall be able to employ this feature for every single domain or subdomain hosted inside your account. All it will take to do this is to navigate to the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia CP, to click the Edit button associated with the specific domain/subdomain and then to enter the link to the custom-made file. You can do this separately for every error type. You will be able to switch back to a generic error page anytime if needed and the change will take effect straightaway. A different way to get the same result is to set an .htaccess file inside the domain or subdomain folder of the site that you'd like to edit and to enter a few lines of code inside it. If you'd like to try this method, you can copy and paste the necessary code from our Knowledge Base article on custom error pages, hence you shall not need any programming skills or prior experience.