Make a Custom 404 Error Page for Fun and Profit [[Tutorial]]
 

Hey guys, I wrote a short and sweet blog post on the ETU-Cash webmaster blog that talks about creating a custom 404 error page to take advantage of wayward visitors.

You can read it here!

I hope you enjoy it and can put it to good use, and if you liked it, or hated it, or just want an excuse to type something, leave a comment! :thumbsup

Good stuff Sands!

If you have access to httpd.conf you can add the following to it:

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html

That'll let you have a custom missing.html on every site and not have to mess around with a .htaccess for each site.

Decent article tho.

Nice tip, thanks :)

Where in the httpd.conf while would I add ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html ?

My httpd.conf has a section like this, and I simply uncommented that line and reloaded apache.

#
# Customizable error response (Apache style)
# these come in three flavors
#
# 1) plain text
#ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo.
# n.b. the (") marks it as text, it does not get output
#
# 2) local redirects
ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
# to redirect to local URL /missing.html
#ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl
# N.B.: You can redirect to a script or a document using server-side-includes.

nice. thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing Sands, great article..