If a specific page on a website doesn't load for some reason or in case a link is broken, the website visitor shall see an error page with a generic message. The page will have nothing in common with the rest of the Internet site, which may make the visitor leave your Internet site. A potential solution in this case is a feature made available from some hosting providers - the option to set your own custom-made error pages which will have the exact same design and style as your Internet site and that can contain any text or images you want depending on the particular error. There are 4 common errors that could take place and they involve the following so-called HTTP status codes - 400, when your browser sends a bad request to the web server and it cannot be processed; 401, in case you are supposed to log in to see some web page, but you have not done so yet; 403, if you do not have an authorization 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 cases, visitors will be able to see your custom made content as opposed to a generic error page.

Custom Error Pages in Cloud Hosting

The custom error pages feature is offered with each and every cloud hosting package deal which we offer and you will be able to replace all the generic pages with your own with no more than a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia website hosting CP. You shall have to develop the actual files and to upload them to your account, and then to set them for a given domain or subdomain using the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel. You could do this for every single website hosted inside the account separately, so that each set of custom made pages will have the very same design as the website it's part of. If required, you can always return back to a default page from our system or to the default Apache server page. A different way to set custom error pages is to create an .htaccess file in the domain/subdomain root folder and to include a few lines in it. If you have never done this before, you could simply copy the required program code from our Help article about the subject.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you'll be able to set custom made error pages for each of them easily through our custom Hepsia hosting CP. With a couple of mouse clicks inside the Hosted Domains section, you are able to change the default setting from a system page to a personalized one for any of the 4 error types. All you have 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 modification whenever you want and in exactly the same way. If you'd like, you could use an .htaccess file too. It should be created/uploaded within the domain or subdomain folder belonging to the site whose error pages you would want to alter and the content for this kind of file can be found in our Help article on this matter.