404 File not found

[Weapon]

Does anyone know where I can get the scripts where if you go to a page that doesn't exist it pops up a 404 file not found thingee

[ashben]

I don't think its a special script. All you need to do and if your host supports it, is to place a custom missing.html or 404.html page in your root directory.

[Weapon]

No I just added a 404.html to my root directory but nothing happened, I also tried renaming it to missing.html but that still don't work anybody know the script?

[Peo]

Try to create a file named .htaccess and in this file put:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

where '/404.html' is the location of your 404 missing file. The .htaccess file should be in your main directory.

this may differ depending on your server.

[Chicken]

It certainly isn't a script. If this doesn't work then 99.9% of the time you are not setting up what Peo posted correctly. The server may not allow you to set it up, but if you do everything right and it doesn't work, email your host.

[niv]

umm...anyone here uses .htaccess files?

.htaccess should contain for it to work (customized 404/403/400/401/500 error pages):

ErrorDocument 400 /400.html
ErrorDocument 401 /401.html
ErrorDocument 403 /403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
ErrorDocument 500 /500.html

.htaccess also can ban non-authorized users from certain directories and files with a .htpasswd file working along with it

[Chicken]

Originally posted by needcgispace
umm...anyone here uses .htaccess files?

Yes.

[Maurice]

When someone clicks on a link to a page that doesn't exist, this script logs the URL of the page that they came from and sends them to a page that you specify. You can then view the log, and fix any dead links.

Here is the link:

http://www.shavenferret.com/scripts/404/frame.shtml

Good Luck.

[Mrh0ax]

here is a list of ALOT (over 50) HTTP error codes :)

http://offline.home.cern.ch/offline/web/http_error_codes.html