Changing 404 error.
How do you change the 404 (and the others) error pages?
This can be done, I've seen it on Gamespy.com and other sites, but I've never been able to figure it out.
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How do you change the 404 (and the others) error pages?
This can be done, I've seen it on Gamespy.com and other sites, but I've never been able to figure it out.
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Mark Hensler posted this at 18:30 — 17th April 2002.
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You'll use the ErrorDocument directive in the .htaccess file.
Syntax:
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
Artur posted this at 18:06 — 19th April 2002.
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Is there any reason not to use the full URL path to the 404.html?
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.somesite.com/404.html
The reason I'm asking is that I'm not entirely sure that the /404.html may be interpreted properly by some configurations, especially in subdirectories.
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mairving posted this at 19:04 — 19th April 2002.
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It is just not necessary to use the full path. The / tells the server to look for it in the root web directory. If you had sub-domains, then you would have to use the full path.
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Suzanne posted this at 20:13 — 19th April 2002.
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Check the documentation as well. For some error messages you have to use the full url, for others you cannot use it at all.
Also, some spiders can get caught in a 404 error page if you use a relative CSS link, so if you do create custom error pages, you might want to use absolute urls for the CSS.
FinalMjolnir666 posted this at 00:05 — 23rd April 2002.
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Okay thanks.
hotcut posted this at 14:45 — 27th April 2002.
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that can't be done with IIS5, is that correct? Or is there a way?
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 14:49 — 27th April 2002.
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It can be done with IIS5.
Go to the website properties through MMC, then choose the "Custom Errors" (:eek:
) tab. From there you can select what error pages you want to customize (i.e. 500, 404 etc) and click Edit Properties, then select your file. 
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