If a specific page on a site doesn't load for some reason or if a link is broken, the visitor will see an error page with some generic message. The page shall have nothing in common with the rest of the website, that could make the visitor leave your site. A likely solution in cases like this is a feature made available from some website hosting service providers - the option to set up your own custom-made error pages that shall have identical layout as your Internet site and which can contain any text or images that you would like based on the particular error. There are four well-known errors that could take place and they involve these particular so-called HTTP status codes - 400, when your world-wide web browser sends a bad request to the server and it cannot be processed; 401, if you are supposed to log in to see a webpage, but you have not done this yet; 403, if you do not have a permission to see a certain page; and 404, in case a link that you've clicked leads to a file which does not exist. In any of these cases, website visitors shall be able to see your customized content instead of a generic error page.

Custom Error Pages in Cloud Hosting

When you acquire a cloud hosting from us, you shall be able to set custom error pages for your websites quickly and easily, as this function is a part of all our plans. As soon as you've created the files and uploaded them to your hosting account, you should check out the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia CP and click on the Edit button for the selected domain or subdomain. In the pop-up that will show up, you shall see drop-down options menus for all four kinds of errors and for each of them you may select an Apache default page, a generic page from our system or a custom page. In case you choose the 3rd option, you should only input the URL to the file you have uploaded and save the change. One other way to set customized error pages is to set up an .htaccess file in the domain or subdomain folder and to add a couple of lines of code in it. If you don't have prior experience or if you are just not sure how to do this, you could simply copy and paste the code from our Knowledge Base article on that topic.

Custom Error Pages in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated packages which we provide support custom made error pages and it will not take more than a few mouse clicks from your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to use this feature. The option is available in the Hosted Domains section of your Control Panel where you'll need to input the links to the custom-made files using basic drop-down menus and an easy to use interface. Needless to say, you have to upload them to your account before that. If you do not need to employ this function at some point, you can easily disable it just as easily and select an Apache server page or a default page from our system to be shown whenever your visitors encounter an error. If you prefer, you can also use an .htaccess file to permit the customized error pages. The file should contain a specific line of code plus a link for each error type and you can easily find an example of the entire content for all four error types in our Help section.