Whenever a page on your website does not load, an error message will be displayed to the site visitor. Since there are different errors, there are different pages that will appear, but what is typical for all of them is that they're generic and in all probability will have practically nothing that resembles the layout of your website, which could be frustrating for any visitor. This is the primary reason why hosting service providers have introduced a feature referred to as Custom Error Pages. For a number of different errors, site visitors will see your custom made content, which may be informative or witty, depending on your choice, and which shall match the overall layout of your site, so the pages shall not seem like they aren't part of your site at all. You could use this option for many errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).
Custom Error Pages in Cloud Website Hosting
If you acquire a cloud website hosting plan from our company, you shall be able to set personalized error pages for your websites easily, because this function is part of all our packages. The moment you've created the files and uploaded them to your hosting account, you can go to the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia CP and click on the Edit button for the particular domain or subdomain. Inside the pop-up which will show up, you shall see drop-down options menus for all 4 sorts of errors and for each one of them you can choose an Apache default page, a generic page from our system or a personalized page. Should you pick the 3rd option, you should just type the URL to the file that you've uploaded and save the change. Another way to set custom made error pages is to set up an .htaccess file in the domain or subdomain folder and to add several lines of code in it. In case you don't have preceding experience or if you are simply uncertain how to do that, you could simply copy and paste the code from our Knowledge Base article on that subject.
Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated plans support tailor-made error pages, so you will be able to use this feature for every single domain or subdomain hosted inside your account. All it will take to do this is to go to the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia CP, to click the Edit button related to the specific domain/subdomain and then to type the link to the custom-made file. You'll be able to do this individually for each and every error type. You will be able to switch back to a standard error page whenever you want if necessary and the change will take effect straightaway. Another way to get the same exact result is to place an .htaccess file in the domain or subdomain folder related to the web site which you would like to modify and to type in a couple of lines of code inside it. If you want to try this method, you may copy and paste the required code from our Knowledge Base article on custom error pages, so you'll not need any coding skills or prior experience.