Custom Error Pages

WH has a program called Apache Error Messages 1.0. It can be found and installed under Site Manager > Site Applications > Miscellaneous. Once installed the program is password protected using your main username password combo that you use to access your Site Manager. I theory this program makes changes to your apache config files and then restarts apache. I have not had much luck with using the program.

The same effect can be optained by using your own .htaccess files. This may come in handy when you want to create say a 404 page not found custom message for a sub directory under your main home directory. All you need to do is create an .htaccess file with one of the following examples.

1) plain text - The single leading (") marks it as text, it does not get output

Code:

ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo.

2) local redirects - to redirect to local URL /missing.html

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html

You can redirect to a script or a document using server-side-includes.

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl

3) external redirects - Many of the environment variables associated with the original request will *not* be available to such.

Code:

ErrorDocument 402 http://some.other-server.com/subscription_info.html

These pages will give you more information on the whole process. Both pages are also linked to in the WH Apache Error Messages interface.
Apache's Custom Error Response Help
World Wide Web Consortium's HTTP Status Code Definitions