If a page on your Internet site does not load, an error message will be displayed to the website visitor. Since there are different errors, there are different pages that'll display, but what is typical for all of them is that they're generic and probably will have practically nothing that resembles the layout of your site, which could be annoying for any website visitor. This is the primary reason why hosting providers have introduced a function called Custom Error Pages. For a number of different errors, site visitors shall see your customized content, which may be informative or funny, depending on your choice, and that will match the overall style and design of your Internet site, so the pages shall not seem like they are not part of your Internet site at all. You may use this option for a number of errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).

Custom Error Pages in Shared Website Hosting

You shall be able to set up customized error pages for each of your domains or subdomains. The feature is supported by all shared website hosting package that we offer, so once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel and check out the Hosted Domains section, you can click on the Edit button for a domain/subdomain and in the pop-up which will be displayed, you could choose the kind of error page which should appear - a default one from our system, a conventional Apache server page or a personalized one. For the latter alternative, you'll have to specify the URL to the page, so if you use custom pages, you need to upload the files inside your Internet hosting account first. One other way is to use an .htaccess file located in the domain or subdomain folder with a line for each and every error type. The exact syntax can be located in our Knowledge Base, to help you use this function even if you don't have any previous experience.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you could set custom error pages for each of them with ease via our custom Hepsia hosting CP. With a few mouse clicks inside the Hosted Domains section, you could edit the default setting from a system page to a customized one for any of the four error types. All you need to do is supply a link to every single file you have uploaded before that and then save the change. If necessary, you shall be able to revert this change anytime and in exactly the same way. If you want, you could use an .htaccess file too. It should be created/uploaded in the domain or subdomain folder related to the website whose error pages you would like to change and the content for such a file can be found in our Help article about this matter.