If a page on your site does not load, an error message will be displayed to the website visitor. Since there are different errors, there are different pages that'll show up, but what is typical for all of them is that they are generic and probably shall have nothing in common with the layout of your website, which may be aggravating for any visitor. That is the primary reason why web hosting companies have introduced a feature referred to as Custom Error Pages. For a number of different errors, site visitors shall see your customized content, which could be informative or amusing, based on your preference, and which shall match the overall layout of your site, so the pages will not appear as if they are not part of your site at all. You may use this option for many errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).

Custom Error Pages in Web Hosting

The customized error pages feature is provided with every single web hosting package deal that we offer and you shall be able to substitute the generic pages with your own with no more than several clicks in your Hepsia website hosting CP. You'll need to create the actual files and to upload them to your account, and then to set them for a given domain or subdomain through the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel. You can easily do this for each website hosted inside the account independently, so that every set of personalized pages will have identical design and style as the Internet site it's part of. When necessary, you may always go back to a default page from our system or to the default Apache server page. A different way to set custom made error pages is to create an .htaccess file in the domain/subdomain root folder and to add a few lines in it. If you have never done this before, you can simply copy the needed program code from our Help article on the subject.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated servers support personalized error pages, so you'll be able to use this feature for each domain or subdomain hosted in your account. All it will take to do this is to check out the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, to click on the Edit button associated with the particular domain/subdomain and to input the link to the custom file. You'll be able to do this separately for each and every error type. You shall be able to switch back to a generic error page anytime if needed and the change shall take effect straightaway. An alternative way to get the very same result is to put an .htaccess file inside the domain or subdomain folder associated with the web site which you'd like to modify and to enter a couple of lines of code in it. If you want to try this method, you could copy and paste the needed code from our Knowledge Base article on custom error pages, therefore you will not need any computer programming skills or prior experience.