[WEB4LIB] Customizing your 404 error

[Jeff]

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Steve Bachman wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have been looking into making our Error 404 page a little more helpful,
> perhaps with links to the popular areas of our site.
> I found some great instructions for doing just that with Microsoft IIS,
> Apache, Netscape, Webstar, and Lotus Domino.  Unfortunately we have an
> Alpha running VMS. Does anybody out there know how to edit the 404 error on
> an Alpha?

It's not so much the operating system and platform as it is the web server
software that dictates what you must do to enable custom error messages.

<http://lib.4cty.org/> seems to be running CERN/3.0pre6vms3. For
information on customizing error messages in the CERN httpd, see
<http://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Error.html>

I would suggest migrating from the CERN httpd to something like Apache
sometime in the near future. CERN httpd is no longer maintained. 

I also noticed that <http://www.4cty.org/> (which is where I was directed
by <http://lib.4cty.org/>) is apparently running Microsoft-IIS/3.0. I
would place this at the top of your list of things to fix.

If I can be of any further assistance, please feel free to contact me on
or off-list.

-jeff

-- 
Jeff Godin
Network Specialist
Traverse Area District Library / Traverse Community Network
jeff at tcnet.org - 231/932-8546 voice