Custom 404 Page

Hi,

I am running cPanel 11 with apache.

I want a custom 404 page in php format. Currently its set to 404.shtml by default, even if I change the file name from 404.shtml to 404.php (under cPanel's "Custom Error Pages"), it still redirects to 404.shtml. So I was wondering if there is an alternate trick to do this?


Please guide



Thanx

 

.htaccess :

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

Code (markup):

Don't forget the beginning slash (/), otherwise it would search the file at wrong places

 

That solved my problem.



Thanx

 

Good call. I was too late. Glad some one helped so Fast.

Thank you
Jason

 

ok there is now a small glitch.

If I place www in the URL, it works fine on Firefox and Opera but does NOT work in IE. IE says the page does not exist.

http://www.resumehype.com/saurav


With IE I need to remove the www to view the page

http://resumehype.com/saurav



Any solution for this?


Thanx

 

Sorry for bump, but in IE a custom error page needs to be 512 bytes or bigger. If you can't reach this, add some hidden commented data like:

<!-- Internet explorer sucks -->

Code (markup):

 

Why dont you do what I do.

I created a page using my script, and then placed a redirect in .htaccess, so that it went there.

www.WebGamesNetwork.com/thiswillredirecttomy404page.php

try it

 

If you do a redirect to your 404 page then the HTTP status codes that get returned are 302 followed by 200. If you use the ErrorDocument directive then you get a 404 HTTP status code.

This won't make much difference to normal users viewing your site in a browser but it makes quite a big difference to search engine bots and automated scripts. A 404 "Page not found" will be treated differently by Google than a redirect to a normal page that tells you it can't find what you were looking for. If you do the redirect method and you have a lot of broken links on your site you could even find that your custom "Not found" page has the highest page rank on your site !