If a particular page on a website doesn't load for some reason or in case a link is not working, the website visitor shall see an error page with some generic message. The page shall have nothing in common with the rest of the website, which may make the visitor leave your site. A solution in such a case is a function made available from some hosting service providers - the ability to set up your own custom error pages which will have the same style and design as your website and which can contain any images or text that you'd like based on the specific error. There are four well-known errors that could occur and they involve these particular so-called HTTP status codes - 400, when your world-wide web browser sends a bad request to the server and it can't be processed; 401, if you're supposed to log in to see some web page, but you have not done this yet; 403, if you do not have a permission to see a specific page; and 404, in case a link that you have clicked leads to a file that doesn't exist. In each of these scenarios, visitors will be able to see your custom made content rather than a generic error page.

Custom Error Pages in Shared Web Hosting

The custom made error pages feature is offered with each shared web hosting package deal we offer and you will be able to substitute all of the generic pages with your own with no more than a couple of mouse clicks in your Hepsia hosting CP. You will need to produce the actual files and to upload them to your account, then to set them for a given domain or subdomain through the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia CP. You can easily do this for each web site hosted in the account independently, so that every group of custom pages shall have the exact same design as the website it is part of. If needed, you could always go back to a default page from our system or to the default Apache server page. One other way to set custom made error pages is to create an .htaccess file inside the domain/subdomain root folder and to add a few lines in it. If you never done this before, you could simply copy the required code from our Help article about this.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Incorporating your own pages for any of the four error types to any Internet site hosted from a semi-dedicated server account with us will be really basic and shall not take more than a couple of mouse clicks. After you upload the files in your account, you could check out the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel and edit any of the domains and subdomains listed there using an intuitive interface with drop-down menus. You may pick what page should display for every error type. The alternatives are a standard Apache server page or a page from our system, and personalized pages. Should you select the aforementioned option, you have to input the link to every page inside your account, then save the change. The link or the kind of page that will appear in case a user encounters an error can be modified anytime. In case you are more experienced, you may use an .htaccess file so as to set in-house developed error pages too, rather than using our integrated generator instrument, and should you pick this option, the file has to be positioned inside the root directory of a specific domain or subdomain.