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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

Taking it further

There's several other error documents that you might wish to customise.

400 - Bad request
401 - Authorization Required
403 - Forbidden directory
404 - Page not found
500 - Internal Server Error

For each one you want to use, simply add a line to your .htaccess file and create the corresponding page.

<Files .htaccess>

order allow,deny

deny from all

</Files>


ErrorDocument 403 /errordocs/error403.htm

ErrorDocument 404 /errordocs/error404.htm

ErrorDocument 500 /errordocs/error500.htm