Re: Changing the default Error404 page

by "Lisa H" <nstar92(at)bellatlantic.net>

 Date:  Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:16:02 -0600
 To:  "W. Jeffrey Rankin" <jrankin(at)jeffr.net>,
"Nick Doylend" <ndoylend(at)hashishin.net>
 Cc:  "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
 References:  sparky
  todo: View Thread, Original
Mine is notfound.html on Apache
----- Original Message -----
From: "W. Jeffrey Rankin" <jrankin(at)jeffr.net>
To: "Nick Doylend" <ndoylend(at)hashishin.net>
Cc: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Changing the default Error404 page


| I would find out what server they're using. Both IIS and Apache (and
| others I would imagine) allow you to designate custom 404 pages. For
| example, this is how it appears in the Apache web server httpd.conf file:
|
| ErrorDocument 404 /html/404.html
|
| Your service provider would probably have no problem setting this up for
| you.
|
| - Jeff
|
| ===================================================
| Jeff Rankin jrankin(at)jeffr.net
|
| http://www.jeffr.net/
|
| Be Valid To Be Cool
| ===================================================
|
| On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Nick Doylend wrote:
|
| > Anyone know how to add a default "I'm sorry, the page you requested blah
| > blah blah" message to a web site?  At the moment I just get the
browser's
| > built in default 404 error page.  Is it something that can be done only
as a
| > server configuration option?  (My web site is on a server which I don't
have
| > any control over).
| >
| > Nick
| >
| >
| >
|

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