If a certain page on an Internet site does not load for some reason or if a link is not working, the visitor will see an error page with some generic message. The page shall have nothing in common with the rest of the Internet site, which could make the visitor leave your site. A possible solution in cases like this is a feature made available from some website hosting companies - the ability to set your own custom error pages which will have identical style and design as your website and that can contain any text or images you want based on the specific error. There are 4 well-known errors which could occur and they involve these 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 some web page, but you haven't done this yet; 403, if you don't have an authorization to see a certain page; and 404, when a link which you have clicked leads to a file which does not exist. In all of these cases, website visitors will be able to see your custom made content rather than a generic error page.

Custom Error Pages in Shared Web Hosting

You can set up custom error pages for any of your Internet sites without difficulty when you use any of our Linux shared web hosting services. This can be done via the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia CP, offered with all accounts as soon as you go there, you can set your custom made pages independently for any domain or subdomain. You should upload the files to your account ahead of time and enter the links to them during the process. This feature may be de-activated anytime and the options you'll be able to choose from are a conventional page from our system or a default Apache web server page. Customized error pages may be set with an .htaccess file as well. The file should be put in the domain or subdomain folder and it should include some system code and links to the pages. If you're not tech-savvy, you could copy the entire content necessary for the file from our Help section.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you can set customized error pages for each of them with ease through our custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a couple of clicks in the Hosted Domains section, you could change the default setting from a system page to a tailor-made one for each of the four error types. All you have to do is supply a link to every file that you've uploaded before that and then save the change. If needed, you will be able to revert this modification whenever you want and in exactly the same way. If you prefer, you can use an .htaccess file too. It should be created/uploaded in the domain or subdomain folder linked to the website whose error pages you would like to modify and the content for such a file can be found in our Help article about this matter.