When a page on your website does not load, an error message will be shown to the visitor. Because there are different errors, there are different pages which will appear, but what's standard for all of them is that they're generic and probably shall have practically nothing that resembles the layout of your website, which may be irritating for any site visitor. That is the primary reason why website hosting companies have introduced a feature referred to as Custom Error Pages. For a range of different errors, site visitors will see your custom content, which could be informative or witty, in accordance with your preference, and which will match the overall design of your website, so the pages shall not look like they are not part of your website at all. You may use this option for a variety of errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).

Custom Error Pages in Hosting

You can set up personalized error pages for each of your domains or subdomains. The feature is supported by all hosting plans that we provide, so after you log in to your Hepsia Control Panel and visit the Hosted Domains section, you can click on the Edit button for a domain/subdomain and in the pop-up that will appear, you can choose the kind of error page that should appear - a default one from our system, a conventional Apache web server page or a custom one. For the latter alternative, you will need to specify the URL to the page, so when you use custom pages, you must upload the files inside your website hosting account first. Another way is to use an .htaccess file located inside the domain or subdomain folder with a line for every error type. The actual syntax can be seen in our Knowledge Base, to help you use this function even if you do not have any previous experience.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your web sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you could set personalized error pages for each of them with ease through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a couple of clicks inside the Hosted Domains section, you are able to edit the default setting from a system page to a custom one for each of the 4 error types. All you need to do is provide a link to every file that you have uploaded before that and then save the change. If required, you'll be able to revert this customization at any time and in exactly the same way. If you would like, you may use an .htaccess file as well. It must be created/uploaded inside the domain or subdomain folder linked to the website whose error pages you would want to alter and the content for this kind of file can be found in our Help article for this matter.