If a page on your site doesn't load, an error message will be displayed to the website visitor. Since there are different errors, there are different pages that will show up, but what is typical for all of them is that they're generic and almost certainly will have practically nothing in common with the design of your site, which could be frustrating for any visitor. That is the reason why web hosting providers have introduced a feature known as Custom Error Pages. For a number of different errors, site visitors will see your custom made content, which may be informative or amusing, based on your taste, and that will match the overall design of your site, so the pages won't look like they're not part of your Internet site at all. You could use this option for numerous errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).
Custom Error Pages in Cloud Hosting
If you buy a Linux cloud hosting from us, you shall be able to set custom made error pages for your sites easily and quickly, since this feature is a part of all our packages. The moment you have created the files and uploaded them to your hosting account, you can check out the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel and click on the Edit button for the specific domain or subdomain. Inside the pop-up that will be displayed, you'll see drop-down menus for all 4 types of errors and for each of them you can select an Apache default page, a generic page from our system or a tailor-made page. Should you pick the third option, you should only type the URL to the file which you have uploaded then save the change. A different way to set custom made error pages is to create an .htaccess file in the domain or subdomain folder and to add a couple of lines of code in it. If you do not have previous experience or if you're simply not sure how to do this, you may just copy and paste the code from our Knowledge Base article on that matter.
Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting
When you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you could set customized error pages for any of them with ease through our in-house created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a few clicks inside the Hosted Domains section, you could modify the default setting from a system page to a custom one for any of the 4 error types. All you need to do is supply a link to each file you have uploaded before that and then save the change. If needed, you'll be able to revert this customization whenever you want and in exactly the same way. If you would like, you may use an .htaccess file too. It has to be created/uploaded within the domain or subdomain folder related to the site whose error pages you would want to alter and the content for this type of file can be found in our Help article about this matter.