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Custom error pages using .htaccess

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Introduction

Create the .htaccess file

Create the 404 error page

Trying it out

Taking it further

Create the .htaccess file

Create a new text file on your computer, and call it "htaccess.txt". Enter the following lines:

<Files .htaccess>

order allow,deny

deny from all

</Files>



ErrorDocument 404 /errordocs/error404.htm

The first part stops people viewing your .htaccess file. The second part tells Apache to redirect any 404 errors to the file "error404.htm".

Next page: Create the 404 error page