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How to create error pages?
FRONTPAGE WARNING: Any modifications to your .htaccess
file can corrupt your extensions and render your site inaccessible. A backup
copy of your .htaccess file should be made before you attempt any changes.
Intro: The .htaccess file is an ASCII text document that can be placed in any
directory on your site. It can be used to control access to files and
directories, and customize some server operation in your site. A .htaccess file
can be created in any word processor but must be saved as text only. You must
use FTP software in ASCII mode to upload or edit your .htaccess file. For the
examples provided here, place the .htaccess file in your root directory.
FRONTPAGE WARNING: FrontPage sites have a .htaccess file
in the root directory that is created when the FrontPage extensions are
installed. FrontPage users should proceed with caution and make a backup copy of
their .htaccess file before making any changes. Incorrect changes to your .htaccess
file can result in your site being unreachable.
- Open a new notepad document in Windows or any plain text editing software.
- Add in to the text "ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html"
After "ErrorDocument" specify the error code, followed by a space,
and then the path and filename of the .html file you would like to be
displayed when the specified error is generated.
- Save this file as .htaccess, even though Windows will automaticly add the
."txt" extension to it, this doesn't matter.
- After you have done this log into your control panel and click on Files.
- Browse through the dir until you get to path "var/www/html"
- Scroll down to the bottom and click on "Browse" in the
"Upload file" input tag and browse where you saved your .htaccess
file as in step 3.
On the "And save as" tag please put in ".htaccess" and
click on "Upload"
- Thats it! Now you need to create your 404 or error page and upload it to
your html dir and make sure it is to the path you put on step 1. And test it
on your domain.
Here are some other things you can add to your .htaccess file:
Denying User Access
Add the following to the .htaccess file:
<Limit GET>
order allow,deny
deny from 128.23.45.
deny from 207.158.255.213
allow from all
</Limit>
This is an example of a .htaccess file that will block access to your site to
anyone who is coming from any IP address beginning with 128.23.45 and from the
specific IP address 207.158.255.213 . By specifying only part of an IP address,
and ending the partial IP address with a period, all sub-addresses coming from
the specified IP address block will be blocked. You must use the IP addresses to
block access, use of domain names is not supported.
Redirect a Machine Name
FRONTPAGE WARNING: Adding this to your .htaccess will
not allow you to publish with FrontPage. You need to keep a copy of your
original .htaccess file to replace the modified file when making changes to the
site
Add the following to the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
# Rewrite Rule for machine.domain-name.net
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} machine.domain-name.net$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !machine/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ machine/$1
This will redirect requests for the machine name machine.domain-name.net to
the directory machine on the site domain-name.net .
Different Default Home Page
Add the following to the .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex filename.html
Then a request for http://domain-name.net/ would return http://domain-name.net/filename.html
if it exists, or would list the directory if it did not exist.
To automatically run a cgi script, add the following to the .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex /cgi-bin/pdesk.cgi
This would cause the CGI script /cgi-bin/pdesk.cgi to be executed.
If you place your .htaccess file containing the DirectoryIndex specification
in the root directory of your site, it will apply for all sub-directories at
your site.
Preventing People from Linking to Your Images
Add the following to the .htaccess file:
# Rewrite Rule for images
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} <URL of page accessing your domain>
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://<same as above URL>
You would replace the <URL of page accessing your domain> above with
the domain name and path of the page that is referring to your domain. For
example: www.their-isp.net/users/mypage/
The RewriteCond directive states that if the {HTTP_REFERER} matches the URL
that follows, then use the RewriteRule directive. The RewriteRule directive will
redirect any reference back to the referring web page.
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