Whenever a page on your website doesn't load, an error message will be displayed to the visitor. As there are different errors, there are different pages which will show up, but what's common for all of them is that they are generic and probably shall have practically nothing that is similar to the layout of your site, which may be annoying for any site visitor. This is the reason why web hosting companies have introduced a function referred to as Custom Error Pages. For a range of different errors, visitors will see your custom content, which could be informative or witty, depending on your choice, and that will match the overall design of your site, so the pages won't appear as if they aren't part of your site at all. You can use this option for a variety of errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).

Custom Error Pages in Hosting

If you acquire a hosting service from us, you'll be able to set personalized error pages for your sites easily, because this feature is part of all our plans. After you've created the files and uploaded them to your website hosting account, you can go to the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel and click on the Edit button for the selected domain or subdomain. Inside the pop-up that will be displayed, you will see drop-down options menus for all 4 sorts of errors and for each one of them you could select an Apache default page, a generic page from our system or a customized page. If you pick the 3rd option, you should simply type the URL to the file you have uploaded and save the change. A different way to set custom made error pages is to create an .htaccess file in the domain or subdomain folder and to include several lines of program code in it. If you do not have preceding experience or if you're simply uncertain how to do that, you may just copy and paste the code from our Knowledge Base article on that topic.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your web sites in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you can set tailor-made error pages for any of them easily using our custom Hepsia hosting CP. With only a couple of clicks in the Hosted Domains section, you can change the default setting from a system page to a customized one for each of the 4 error types. All you have to do is provide a link to each file you have uploaded before that and then save the change. If needed, you'll be able to revert this change at any time and in exactly the same way. If you wish, you may use an .htaccess file as well. It must be created/uploaded within the domain or subdomain folder related to the website whose error pages you want to change and the content for such a file can be found in our Help article about this matter.