Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:49:51 +0000

It can be done with IIS5.

Go to the website properties through MMC, then choose the "Custom Errors" (:eek: ) tab. From there you can select what error pages you want to customize (i.e. 500, 404 etc) and click Edit Properties, then select your file.

hotcut — Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:45:49 +0000

that can't be done with IIS5, is that correct? Or is there a way?

FinalMjolnir666 — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:05:29 +0000

Okay thanks.

Suzanne — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:13:49 +0000

Check the documentation as well. For some error messages you have to use the full url, for others you cannot use it at all.

Also, some spiders can get caught in a 404 error page if you use a relative CSS link, so if you do create custom error pages, you might want to use absolute urls for the CSS.

mairving — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:04:34 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Artur
Is there any reason not to use the full URL path to the 404.html?

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.somesite.com/404.html

The reason I'm asking is that I'm not entirely sure that the /404.html may be interpreted properly by some configurations, especially in subdirectories.

It is just not necessary to use the full path. The / tells the server to look for it in the root web directory. If you had sub-domains, then you would have to use the full path.

Artur — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:06:05 +0000

Is there any reason not to use the full URL path to the 404.html?

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.somesite.com/404.html

The reason I'm asking is that I'm not entirely sure that the /404.html may be interpreted properly by some configurations, especially in subdirectories.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:30:07 +0000

You'll use the ErrorDocument directive in the .htaccess file.

Syntax:
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html