404 Error

[Rajib Kumar]

Hey, i wants create a 404 error page. Please help me. Just share your experience or any link that can help me.

[AnilK]

Here are 60 ideas for 404 pages.

[Rajib Kumar]

Thanks for share. But this only sample.

Originally Posted by AnilK

Here are 60 ideas for 404 pages.

[Rajib Kumar]

Thanks dude. I hope this will work for my site.

Originally Posted by marshal france

When the user of a website makes a mistake in the url a 404 page appears. You can customize your 404 page. Just open your favorite web page editor and

1. Get HTML code for your site. Open your site in a web browser and go to a simple page (I usually use ‘about us’ or something similar). Click ‘view’ and then ‘source’. Cut-and-paste that code into your editor. Voila - you have your page layout.
2. Edit the page so it follows the three principles of a good 404 error page (see below).
3. Save the page as something obvious, like 404.html.

Any 404 page should have 3 basic elements:


A clear statement that the visitor is in the wrong place;

Advice to help them get back on track;

An option for getting in touch with the website owner.

[RevSEO]

One thing that I like to do with Wordpress is create a 301 redirect on the 404 page so that all "broken" links are automatically redirected to my homepage to harness that linkjuice.

Its a little trick that helps me automate the process of finding broken links and not having to setup single 301's.

[Jeremy123]

hi guys,

I have the same problem.

So it seems you can create a new page named 404.htm or similiar

but then what do I do,

how do I get it to redirect, I found this info earlier

In order to specify your own customized error documents, you simply need to add the following command, on one line, within your htaccess file:

ErrorDocument code /directory/filename.ext
or
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.html
This would cause any error code resulting in 404 to be forward to yoursite.com/errors/notfound.html

== Is this better to do, just add this to htaccess

update:

I figured it out.
You can create a custom 404 page in your cpanel hosting account,
just go to the cpanel, then to error pages,

then open one of your existing pages on your site,
right click on it, go to view source,
copy and paste the html into the area in the error pages,
then edit the text to what you want,
then save, and your done.

you'll understand when you go to your cpanel and see it