If a particular page on a site does not 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 will have nothing in common with the rest of the Internet site, which could make the visitor leave the website. A likely solution in such a case is a feature made available from some web hosting companies - the ability to set your own customized error pages that will have the exact same layout as your Internet site and which can contain any text or images which you want dependent upon the particular error. There are four popular errors which may occur and they involve these particular so-called HTTP status codes - 400, when your browser sends a bad request to the web server and it can't be processed; 401, if you're supposed to log in to see some page, but you have not done this yet; 403, if you don't have a permission to view a particular page; and 404, when a link which you have clicked leads to a file that does not exist. In all of these situations, website visitors will be able to see your customized content rather than a generic error page.

Custom Error Pages in Shared Hosting

When you buy a shared hosting package from us, you will be able to set custom made error pages for your Internet sites fast and easy, because this function is a part of all of our packages. Once you've created the files and uploaded them to your web hosting account, you can check out the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia CP and click on the Edit button for the specific domain or subdomain. Inside the pop-up that will show up, you will see drop-down menus for all 4 types of errors and for each one of them you may choose an Apache default page, a generic page from our system or a tailor-made page. In case you choose the 3rd option, you should simply input the URL to the file that you have uploaded then save the change. A different way to set customized error pages is to create an .htaccess file in the domain or subdomain folder and to include several lines of program code in it. In case you don't have prior experience or if you're just not sure how to do that, you can just copy and paste the code from our Knowledge Base article on that subject.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Incorporating your own pages for any of the four error types to any Internet site hosted through a semi-dedicated server account with us will be really uncomplicated and won't take more than a couple of mouse clicks. After you upload the files to your account, you can navigate to the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel and edit each of the domains and subdomains listed there using an intuitive interface with drop-down menus. You may pick what page should appear for each error type. The choices are a standard Apache server page or a page from our system, and personalized pages. Should you choose the aforementioned option, you have to type in the link to each and every page in your account, then save the change. The link or the kind of page that will be shown when a user encounters an error can be modified anytime. If you're more experienced, you may use an .htaccess file to be able to set in-house made error pages as well, rather than using our integrated generator tool, and should you choose this option, the file needs to be positioned in the root directory of a specific domain or subdomain.