If a certain page on an Internet site does not load for some reason or if a link is not functioning, the website visitor shall see an error page with some generic message. The page shall have nothing in common with the rest of the site, that may make the visitor leave the website. A solution in cases like this is a feature offered by some hosting companies - the option to set up your own custom-made error pages that shall have exactly the same style and design as your site and that can contain any images or text that you would like depending on the specific error. There are 4 standard 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 web server and it cannot be processed; 401, if you are supposed to log in to see a webpage, but you haven't done so yet; 403, if you don't have a permission to see a particular page; and 404, in case a link which you've clicked leads to a file which does not exist. In each of these scenarios, site visitors will be able to see your customized content instead of a generic error page.

Custom Error Pages in Hosting

The custom error pages feature is offered with every single hosting package which we offer and you will be able to substitute all of the generic pages with your own with no more than just a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. You will need to create the actual files and to upload them to your account, and then to set them for a particular domain or subdomain via the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel. You can easily do this for every single web site hosted in the account individually, so that every set of personalized pages shall have identical layout as the Internet 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. A different way to set personalized error pages is to create an .htaccess file in the domain/subdomain root folder and to add a few lines in it. If you haven't done this before, you could simply copy the required code from our Help article about the subject.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us, you can set customized error pages for each of them with ease via our in-house developed Hepsia hosting CP. With just a couple of clicks in the Hosted Domains section, you can modify the default setting from a system page to a personalized one for any of the 4 error types. All you need to do is provide a link to each file that you've uploaded before that and then save the change. If necessary, you will be able to revert this modification anytime and in exactly the same way. If you'd like, you could use an .htaccess file as well. It must be created/uploaded in the domain or subdomain folder related to the internet site whose error pages you would want to alter and the content for this kind of file can be found in our Help article about this matter.