Interesting Tip: Custom 404 Errors

[Huntington Woods Public Library]

I thought I would pass along an interesting tip I discovered this weekend.  If you make a lot of directory changes or delete pages from your website, you will appreciate this.  Instead of a user seeing the default 404 error page when a page no longer exists, you can create your own!

Create a file called '.htaccess' with the following line:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yourwebserver.com/404.html

Then, create a file called 404.html and make it redirect to your server's homepage.

You can view an example at http://www.huntington-woods.lib.mi.us/404.html

Enjoy!

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Brent J. Pliskow
Technology Coordinator
Huntington Woods Public Library 
http://www.huntington-woods.lib.mi.us
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