https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1039367 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/html-css-and-javascript/page404#comment-1223209 <p>on an apache server, you can add the following line to the .htaccess file in the root of your web server:</p> <p>ErrorDocument 404 /404error.php</p> <p>The last portion is the file that will get called anytime the server detects a 404 error. (the same thing can be done for a 403 error; permission denied). This can be a static web page or a scripted page. A few things to consider:</p> <p>1. This file does not always get called from the root directory, so always reference the page off of the root. (/404error.php instead of just 404error.php in my example)</p> <p>2. Also since this can get called from other directories, make sure all images/css/script files you reference are based off of the root directory (<img src="/images/logo.gif" instead of img if you are into tracking your this is a good place to write your own keep a log file of what pages are trying to be and what referers sent them after redesigning a site for a that had a ton of sites linking to internal i wrote a scrip that used a database lookup to find the for it also tracked hits that included a so i could contact the webmaster of those sites letting them know of the updates as these were usually business or educational they were glad to get the -greg /></p> Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:53:34 +0000 Greg K comment 1223209 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net