# Error 404

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 24, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504 "2003-12-24T00:38:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![PluTunium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@PluTunium](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/PluTunium)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504/1 "2003-12-24T00:38:40Z")

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How do you make your own error page? like if you do [http://www.kirupa.com/forum](http://www.kirupa.com/forum) \< you get an error page. How do you do that? … like how do you direct it to your own error page?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504/2 "2003-12-24T00:50:47Z")

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If a web host has custom error pages option, they usually have an online editor where you can select the error page, (like 404, or 403) and just code it there.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504/3 "2003-12-24T01:00:58Z")

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any other options?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504/4 "2003-12-24T01:06:36Z")

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search google for “.htaccess”

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504/5 "2003-12-24T02:39:35Z")

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thank you! I am trying it right now! hopefully it will work!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504/6 "2003-12-24T03:04:53Z")

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even if your host has an online editor, you can still do it with  
htaccess as ahmed suggests. Here is how I usually do it…

make a text file called .htaccess and put this code in it.

```auto
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.domain.com/500.htm
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.domain.com/403.htm
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.domain.com/401.htm
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.domain.com/404.htm

```

then upload it to your root of the domain on the server. Make  
sure you have a page made and uploaded for each error, of course. 😉

also, be sure you have the file named properly as .htaccess and  
not .htaccess.txt or something else.

Hope that helps. =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504/7 "2003-12-24T05:00:00Z")

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yup. oh, and to save since the file has no name, but an extension, save that file as “.htaccess” including the quotations if you’re using notepad 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504/8 "2003-12-24T07:09:06Z")

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aren’t .htaccess files only for apache? just curious

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-404/38504/9 "2003-12-24T07:10:32Z")

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yes 🙂