If a certain page on an Internet site does not load for some reason or in case a link is broken, the site visitor will see an error page with some generic message. The page will have nothing in common with the rest of the site, that may make the visitor leave the site. A solution in cases like this is a function made available from some web hosting service providers - the ability to set up your own custom error pages that shall have identical design and style as your site and that may contain any images or text that you'd like dependent upon the specific error. There are four common errors that may take place and they involve the following so-called HTTP status codes - 400, when your web browser sends a bad request to the hosting server and it cannot be processed; 401, in case you are supposed to log in to see some page, but you haven't done this yet; 403, if you do not have an authorization to see a specific page; and 404, in case a link that you've clicked leads to a file which does not exist. In all of these scenarios, site visitors shall be able to see your custom content instead of a generic error page.

Custom Error Pages in Cloud Website Hosting

The custom error pages function is offered with each and every cloud website hosting plan which we offer and you'll be able to swap the generic pages with your own with no more than several mouse clicks from your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. You'll need to create the actual files and to upload them to your account, then to set them for a particular domain or subdomain via the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel. You could do this for every Internet site hosted inside the account separately, so that each set of personalized pages will have the same layout as the site it's part of. If required, you can always return back to a default page from our system or to a default Apache server page. One other way to set customized error pages is to create an .htaccess file inside the domain/subdomain root folder and to include a few lines in it. If you haven't done this before, you may simply copy the required code from our Help article about the subject.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All of the semi-dedicated hosting which we provide support custom made error pages and it will not take more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to use this function. The option is included in the Hosted Domains section of your Control Panel where you will have to type in the links to the custom-made files using very simple drop-down menus and a time and effort saving interface. Of course, you have to upload them to your account before that. In case you don't need to use this feature at some point, you can easily disable it just as easily and select an Apache server page or a default page from our system to be shown if your visitors encounter an error. If you prefer, you may also use an .htaccess file to allow the personalized error pages. The file should contain a particular line of code and a link for every error type and you can easily discover an example of the entire content for all four error types in our Help section.