Htaccess file - Custom error pages

These are easy to create using the .htaccess file. Just include lines of the following format in your file.

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html

This causes the file "missing.html" to be displayed whenever a 404 error occurs.

You may include any of the following error codes:

Additional Resources

Good Design - Custom 404 error page The 404 error page is generally pretty lame. If you can, you can use this as a tool to get your visitors deeper into your site.
The Dreaded 404 error This article tells you the meaning of the dreaded 404 error
IIS 5 Administration - Custom Errors Tab Tired of the error pages generated by IIS for 404
Htaccess file If you have direct access to the .htaccess file, then you are in luck. You can do some very cool things.
Htaccess file - Protecting directories The most common usages of .htaccess is to restrict access to all of the files within a directory.
Htaccess file - MIME types You can use .htaccess to define your own MIME types. What this means is you can associated file types with actions to be performed.
Htaccess file - Custom error pages You can use htaccess to define custom error pages to trap 404 and other error conditions.
Htaccess file - Redirect You can redirect visitors to other pages using the redirect function of htaccess.
Htaccess file - Deny Deny is especially useful to block out unwanted spiders and malicious visitors.
Htaccess file - Rewrite Rewrite is a complex, but useful feature which can help you stop spam harvesters.
Htaccess file - Redirect Worms Away Is your site running on an Apache server and is your log file being filled with useless errors from the recent worm penetrations? Is your bandwidth being used to no good cause? Here's a solution which might help.

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