404 errors? Options

[Jamesisgsnap]

How do you create your own page for 404-errors?

So when someone types something wrong in you can have it say what ever you want instead of it being a blank ugly page?

I seen like a few sites have it, but I can't find them now.

[fixtatik]

you can make it however you'd like. basically, the .htaccess file is telling the server that when an error is returned, and it happens to be a 404 error (page not found), then send the visitor to a different page that you specify.

it's not just 404 errors you can make custom pages for. here's a more complete list of all the http status codes that apache servers might return. to make custom pages for those, do the same as for a 404 error, just changing the "404" to something else.

for example, my own .htaccess file has errors for 403 and 404:

CODE

ErrorDocument 403 /403
ErrorDocument 404 /404

the 403 and the 404