Mr. Bup’s Webmaster Guide

Handle 404, 500, and 301 Errors as Well as Many Others With an .htaccess file

Code & Scripts, Programming, Quick Tips

Lets suppose you wanted to redirect users to your home page if they attempted to access a page that was NOT on your server. There is a very quick and simple way to do this. Its called a 404 redirect using an .htaccess file. You simply create a new file in Microsoft Notepad and type this: “ErrorDocument 404 /index.php” (Without the quotes). Then you simply save the file as .htaccess and upload it to your root directory. From now on when someone visits www.yoursite.com/chickentastes/good.html they will automatically be redirected to your homepage.

Interestingly enough you can also redirect to a specific page such as a custom 400 error page that you code up in php or html or whatever. See examples below. Just replace the “/errors/badrequest.html” part with “/myCustom400ErrorPage.php” and you’ll be fine.

Please find below a pretty copmplete list of server returned errors.

• 200 OK
• 201 Created
• 202 Accepted
• 203 Non-Authorative Information
• 204 No Content
• 205 Reset Content
• 206 Partial Content

• 300 Multiple Choices
• 301 Moved Permanently
• 302 Moved Temporarily
• 303 See Other
• 304 Not Modified
• 305 Use Proxy

• 400 Bad Request
• 401 Authorization Required
• 402 Payment Required (not used yet)
• 403 Forbidden
• 404 Not Found
• 405 Method Not Allowed
• 406 Not Acceptable (encoding)
• 407 Proxy Authentication Required
• 408 Request Timed Out
• 409 Conflicting Request
• 410 Gone
• 411 Content Length Required
• 412 Precondition Failed
• 413 Request Entity Too Long
• 414 Request URI Too Long
• 415 Unsupported Media Type

• 500 Internal Server Error
• 501 Not Implemented
• 502 Bad Gateway
• 503 Service Unavailable
• 504 Gateway Timeout
• 505 HTTP Version Not Supported

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