If a certain page on an Internet site does not load for some reason or in case a link is broken, the site visitor will see an error page with a generic message. The page will have nothing in common with the rest of the website, that can make the visitor leave your Internet site. A likely solution in this case is a function made available from some web hosting companies - the ability to set your own personalized error pages which shall have identical design as your Internet site and that can contain any images or text that you would like depending on the particular error. There are four standard errors that can occur and they involve the following so-called HTTP status codes - 400, when your web browser sends a bad request to the hosting server and it can't be processed; 401, if you are supposed to log in to see a webpage, but you haven't done this yet; 403, if you don't have a permission to view a particular page; and 404, when a link which you've clicked leads to a file which does not exist. In any of these cases, visitors will be able to see your custom content instead of a generic error page.

Custom Error Pages in Shared Website Hosting

The custom made error pages function is offered with every single shared website hosting plan we offer and you shall be able to replace all generic pages with your own with no more than a few mouse clicks inside your Hepsia hosting CP. You'll need to develop the actual files and to upload them to your account, and then to set them for a given domain or subdomain via the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel. You can do this for each web site hosted inside the account separately, so that each set of customized pages shall have the exact same design and style as the Internet site it is part of. If needed, you could always revert back to a default page from our system or to a default Apache server page. An alternate way to set personalized error pages is to create an .htaccess file inside the domain/subdomain root folder and to include a few lines in it. If you have never done this before, you may simply copy the necessary code from our Help article on this subject.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you may set customized error pages for each of them easily using our in-house created Hepsia hosting CP. With a few mouse clicks inside the Hosted Domains section, you'll be able to modify the default setting from a system page to a customized one for each of the four error types. All you should do is supply a link to every file which you have uploaded before that and then save the change. If needed, you'll be able to revert this customization at any time and in exactly the same way. If you would like, you could use an .htaccess file too. It has to be created/uploaded in the domain or subdomain folder related to the site whose error pages you intend to modify and the content for such a file can be found in our Help article about this matter.