Each time a page on your site doesn't load, an error message will be shown to the website visitor. Because there are different errors, there are different pages which will show up, but what is common for all of them is that they're generic and in all probability will have practically nothing in common with the layout of your site, which can be aggravating for any website visitor. This is the primary reason why website hosting service providers have introduced a feature called Custom Error Pages. For a variety of different errors, visitors shall see your custom made content, which could be informative or funny, depending on your choice, and which shall match the overall layout of your website, so the pages will not seem like they're not part of your website at all. You could use this option for a variety of errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).

Custom Error Pages in Shared Hosting

If you acquire a Linux shared package from us, you'll be able to set custom error pages for your Internet sites quickly and easily, because this feature is a part of all of our solutions. Once you've created the files and uploaded them to your hosting account, you should check out the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel and click on the Edit button for the selected domain or subdomain. In the pop-up which will appear, you shall see drop-down menus for all 4 types of errors and for each one of them you may choose an Apache default page, a generic page from our system or a customized page. If you choose the third option, you should just type the URL to the file you have uploaded then save the change. Another way to set personalized error pages is to set up an .htaccess file in the domain or subdomain folder and to add a few lines of code in it. If you do not have previous experience or if you are just not sure how to do that, you can just copy and paste the code from our Knowledge Base article on that topic.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All our Linux semi-dedicated packages support tailor-made error pages, so you shall be able to use this function for each and every domain or subdomain hosted inside your account. All it will take to do this is to visit the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia CP, to click the Edit button linked to the particular domain/subdomain and to input the link to the custom-made file. You can do this individually for every error type. You'll be able to switch back to a default error page at any time if necessary and the change will take effect immediately. A different way to get the very same result is to set an .htaccess file inside the domain or subdomain folder related to the website which you want to change and to type in a couple of lines of code within it. If you would like to try this method, you could copy and paste the necessary code from our Knowledge Base article on custom error pages, thus you won't need any computer programming skills or previous experience.