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Custom 404 pages per site

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Sillysoft, Jun 18, 2011.

  1. Sillysoft

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    Using Cpanel I have one main account and a bunch of add on domains under that account. What I want to do is be able to provide custom 404 pages per site. Some sites I want it to actually redirect them to the home page of that site, for others I would like to display a custom 404 page. How would I go about doing that?

    So one site if they go to www.site1.com/somepage.html and somepage.html is not there I want it to redirect to www.site1.com
     
    #1 Sillysoft, Jun 18, 2011
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    Sounds like your mixing 301 redirects and 404 error pages. Cpanel however does have a section on the user end that allows the creation of the error pages for you.
     
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    No dont want a 301 redirect. I want a 404 error to redirect back to the home page of the site. I can do that via htaccess but some sites I want just regular 404 pages and some sites I want it to redirect back to the home page of the site if a 404 error happens.
     
    #3 Sillysoft, Jun 18, 2011
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    So make an html page and copy all of your code expect the content section. Put
    Code:
    <h2>404 Error page</h2>
        <p><!--#echo var="REQUEST_URI" -->  does not exist. <a href="#" class="und"><strong></strong></a>Please check that address and try again.  </p>.
    Boom you have a 404 page that looks exactly as your home page.

    I am sorry if I am not understanding what you are asking. As for the 404 page the redirects to another page, I am unsure as to how to accomplish that.

    Use caution with these error pages, because if not done properly you can get penalized by the search engine for having duplicate content.
     
    #4 tank, Jun 19, 2011
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    If someone reaches a non-existent page, they should know they reached the wrong page. While you could have a link back to the home page on your custom 404 page, I do not suggest simply redirecting back to the home page with it unless it is going to do so on a time delay after informing the user that the page doesn't exist.

    If you do want to follow that direction to at least inform the user, then you can use a meta refresh in HTML to do this using cPanel > Error pages > 404 (not found) and putting the following content:

    Code:
    <HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="15;http://domain.com">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
This page is not found. You will be redirected in 15 seconds to the main site.
</BODY>
</HTML>
    Upon adding that content, you will need to change domain.com to the actual domain name. This works perfectly well on my test site:

    http://tristanwallace.com/notfound

    You could also change 15 seconds to whatever interval you prefer in both the META tag and the BODY area.
     
    #5 cPanelTristan, Jun 19, 2011
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