Each time a page on your website does not load, an error message shall be displayed to the website visitor. Because there are different errors, there are different pages that'll appear, but what is typical for all of them is that they're generic and almost certainly shall have nothing that is similar to the design of your website, which may be aggravating for any site visitor. That is the main reason why website hosting service providers have introduced a feature known as Custom Error Pages. For a number of different errors, website visitors shall see your unique content, which could be informative or funny, based on your taste, and that will match the overall layout of your site, so the pages shall not seem like they are not part of your site at all. You could use this option for a number of errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).

Custom Error Pages in Shared Hosting

You'll be able to set up personalized error pages for each of your domains or subdomains. The feature is supported by all shared hosting package that we offer, so when you log in to the Hepsia CP and visit the Hosted Domains section, you may click on the Edit button for a domain/subdomain and in the pop-up that"ll show up, you could pick the sort of error page that should appear - a default one from our system, a typical Apache web server page or a custom one. For the last mentioned option, you need to specify the URL to the page, so if you use custom made pages, you need to upload the files inside your web hosting account first. An alternative way is to use an .htaccess file positioned inside the domain or subdomain folder with a line for every error type. The actual syntax can be found in our Knowledge Base, so you can use this function even if you don't have any previous experience.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All of the semi-dedicated hosting services that we offer support custom error pages and it shall not take more than a few clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to use this feature. The option can be found in the Hosted Domains section of your Control Panel in which you will have to type in the links to the custom-made files using basic drop-down menus and an easy to use interface. Keep in mind, you have to upload them in your account before that. In case you don't want to employ this feature at some point, you can easily deactivate it just as fast and select an Apache server page or a default page from our system to be shown when your visitors encounter an error. If you'd like to, you could also use an .htaccess file to enable the custom made error pages. The file needs to have a particular line of code plus a link for every error type and you may discover an example of the whole content for all four error types in our Help section.