Each time a page on your site does not load, an error message shall be displayed to the site visitor. Since there are different errors, there are different pages that will display, but what is standard for all of them is that they're generic and almost certainly will have practically nothing in common with the layout of your Internet site, which could be irritating for any website visitor. This is the main reason why web hosting companies have introduced a function called Custom Error Pages. For a number of different errors, visitors shall see your custom made content, which could be informative or amusing, based on your choice, and that will match the design of your site, so the pages will not look like they aren't part of your Internet site at all. You can use this option for a number of errors - 400 (Bad request), 401 (Unauthorized), 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (File not Found).

Custom Error Pages in Shared Hosting

If you order a Linux shared package from our company, you'll be able to set personalized error pages for your sites easily and quickly, because this function is a part of all of our packages. The moment you have created the files and uploaded them to your hosting account, you should check out the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel and click on the Edit button for the particular domain or subdomain. In the pop-up which will show up, you shall see drop-down menus for all 4 types of errors and for each one of them you can select an Apache default page, a generic page from our system or a custom page. Should you pick the 3rd option, you should just type the URL to the file which you have uploaded and save the change. One other way to set custom error pages is to create an .htaccess file inside the domain or subdomain folder and to include a few lines of code in it. If you do not have preceding experience or if you are just unsure how to do that, you can just copy and paste the code from our Knowledge Base article on that topic.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated packages which we provide support custom made error pages and it will not take more than a few clicks from your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to use this feature. The option is included in the Hosted Domains section of your Control Panel in which you'll need to type in the links to the custom-made files via simple drop-down menus and an intuitive interface. Keep in mind, you must upload them in your account before that. If you do not need to use this function at some point, you could deactivate it just as quickly and pick an Apache server page or a default page from our system to be shown if your visitors encounter an error. If you'd like to, you can also use an .htaccess file to permit the custom error pages. The file should contain a specific line of code and a link for each error type and you can easily find an example of the whole content for all four error types in our Help section.