The htaccess gives you the ability to redirect the visitor to different pages if they try to access an invalid page. You can use a custom error page for any type of error as long as you know its number. Example: 404 Page Not Found. The layout for this command is :
So if you create a page called "NotFound.html" and you wanted to use it as the 404 error page, the command would be :ErrorDocument 404 /NotFound.html
If you want to keep all of the error pages in a separate directory, just include the directory name in the file path :ErrorDocument 404 /errorpages/NotFound.html
The most used error documents are :
There are many others, but these are probably all you will ever need to know.
| ErrorDocument errornumber /filename.html |
So if you create a page called "NotFound.html" and you wanted to use it as the 404 error page, the command would be :
If you want to keep all of the error pages in a separate directory, just include the directory name in the file path :
The most used error documents are :
| 400 | Bad Request | A generic kind of error that people get into by doing some strange stuff with your URL or scripts. |
| 401 | Authorization Required | When someone tries to enter a protected area without proper authorization. |
| 403 | Forbidden | When a file with permissions not allowing it to be accessed by the user is requested. |
| 404 | Not Found | Kinda obvious. |
| 500 | Internal Server Error | This may help you with internal server errors in any scripts you have running. |
There are many others, but these are probably all you will ever need to know.
