Custom 404 Page Not Found Pages .htaccess / Error Handling
A cool trick you can entice your visitors with is custom error pages. When a page on your server is not found, your visitors will normally see their browser's default message such as "Page cannot be displayed." If you used a custom error page though, your visitors will see your page.
How to Create your own Custom 404 pages .htaccess / Error Handling
In this tutorial you will learn how to create your own custom 404 pages, and yes you can make it very cool with all your design abilities, it does not have to look so dull anymore with big 404 error on the page. And don't forget to put a link back to your main page, so that if the user come across your 404 page he/she can click the link and go to your main page.
Customizable 404 pages .htaccess / Error Handling
A 404 error page comes up whenever someone clicks a broken link, or goes to a URL on your site that doesn't exist. To make a custom 404 error page you must first make a page that you want to be your 404 error page. It can have images, CSS, a message about the error, etc.
Custom Error Pages .htaccess / Error Handling
We all know what a 404 "Not Found" error page looks like. This tutorial will show you how to make those error pages anything you desire.
Creating Custom Error Messages in Apache .htaccess / Error Handling
The .htaccess file is a file found in Apache servers that allows you to manipulate the behaviour of the server. A very common use is to create custom error messages for server errors. Examples of such errors are "404 Not Found" (say when you click on a broken link), and the "500 Internal Server Error" (a script failed). Most hosts allow you to have your own .htaccess file, and so now we will look at only one of the things we can do with a custom .htaccess.
Custom Error Messages .htaccess / Error Handling
It is a fact of life that if you run a busy regularly-updated website you'll also move your files about quite often. Whilst this may not pose a problem for you initially, search engines take a while to process dead links, and during this time you may be losing visitors who go to your old pages and get the standard 'page not found' error. You can prevent this by customizing your error pages, sending your visitors instead to a nice formatted webpage that politely tells them to keep on looking using your new navigation structure.
htaccess: Stopping "page not found" errors .htaccess / Error Handling
How to use an .htaccess file to automatically redirect requests for files that may have moved following a site redesign. This really useful technique will stop your users getting "page not found" errors after bookmarking pages on your site that no longer exist. Also solves problem of search engines that haven't caught up yet with your new site structure.
Popular Web Tricks .htaccess / General Guides
A really cool feature that web designers overlook is the use of the .htaccess file. Simply put, whenever you see a custom error page (404, 403, etc.), use server side includes, restrict IPs, load a default page, or do any host of events invisible to the user, you are probably going to be using .htaccess.
Create Search Engine Friendly URLs using .htaccess .htaccess / URL Rewrite
In this post, we will see how to use .htaccess to create search engine friendly URLs. Using .htaccess, mapping dynamic pages to static address is easy and this helps search engines to index the pages fast, effective and strong.
Block Unwanted Referers .htaccess / General Guides
Why would you want to block a referer? Well, for one, there are some sites that use webcrawlers that store a url of a page from that site and transmit it as a referering URL when they access your site. They do this thinking (and hopeing) that the URL will go into a publically available hit log for your website and that the URL will be displayed as a link back to their site resulting in their site getting a higher page ranking in search engines.