Each time a page on your site doesn't load, an error message will be shown to the visitor. Because there are different errors, there are different pages that'll appear, but what is common for all of them is that they're generic and most likely shall have absolutely nothing that is similar to the layout of your website, which could be annoying for any website visitor. This is the main reason why web hosting service providers have introduced a feature called Custom Error Pages. For a variety of different errors, visitors shall see your customized content, which may be informative or funny, based on your taste, and which will match the overall design of your site, so the pages will not seem like they aren't part of your website at all. You may use this option for a variety of errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).

Custom Error Pages in Shared Website Hosting

If you purchase a shared website hosting plan from our company, you will be able to set custom error pages for your websites easily and quickly, since this function is part of all of our solutions. The moment you've created the files and uploaded them to your website hosting account, you can check out the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel and click on the Edit button for the particular domain or subdomain. Inside the pop-up which will appear, you'll see drop-down menus for all 4 sorts of errors and for each one of them you can pick an Apache default page, a generic page from our system or a customized page. Should you choose the 3rd option, you should only type the URL to the file which you have uploaded then save the change. One other way to set personalized error pages is to create an .htaccess file in the domain or subdomain folder and to include a couple of lines of program code in it. In case you don't have previous experience or if you're simply not sure how to do this, you may simply copy/paste the code from our Knowledge Base article on that topic.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated plans that we provide support custom error pages and it will not take more than a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to use this function. The option is included in the Hosted Domains section of your CP where you'll have to input the links to the custom-made files using basic drop-down menus and an intuitive interface. Needless to say, you have to upload them to your account before that. If you don't need to employ this function at some point, you can easily deactivate it just as quickly and pick an Apache server page or a default page from our system to be viewable when your visitors encounter an error. If you'd like to, you can also use an .htaccess file to activate the customized error pages. The file has to have a particular line of code and a link for every error type and you can find an example of the whole content for all four error types in our Help section.