Error pages setup?

grappafruit · November 9th, 2004, 7:45 AM

I have a couple of html error pages set up (400, 404, etc) - I tought I could place these trough cPanel/Error pages.

Clearly it doesn't work as simple as I imagined... Help?

**Voltage** · November 9th, 2004, 7:52 AM

You put the source of each page into the cPanel option for error pages?

grappafruit · November 9th, 2004, 7:55 AM

Tried that - doesn't seem to work.

Even if I put the example (a bit personalised) from the cPanel-guide in the "error-modification-page", it doesn't show any difference than the standard

**Voltage** · November 9th, 2004, 7:57 AM

I've never had problems in the past, you could always use htacess to set the page of your 404 error.

Try something like this in the .htaccess of your site.

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com/404page.html

grappafruit · November 9th, 2004, 8:07 AM

Got it - problem solved. Strangely, it works since i've put the document size to 10k+ (lots of filltext).

**Geoff** · November 10th, 2004, 1:11 AM

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Originally Posted by grappafruit

Got it - problem solved. Strangely, it works since i've put the document size to 10k+ (lots of filltext).

You're using Internet Explorer I assume? I vaguely remember reading a while back somewhere that IE requires a minimum error page size before it will display it? I dont think its a common browser problem, just IE. This goes for all error pages.

H · November 10th, 2004, 1:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Geoff

You're using Internet Explorer I assume? I vaguely remember reading a while back somewhere that IE requires a minimum error page size before it will display it? I dont think its a common browser problem, just IE. This goes for all error pages.

I don't that's the case. I have a 404 error that's 13 characters and it works fine with IE.

**Geoff** · November 10th, 2004, 1:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Haugland

I don't that's the case. I have a 404 error that's 13 characters and it works fine with IE.

Well I wasnt entirely incorrect, I just Google'd it and IE5 (not sure about earlier versions or IE6) does have a minimum size... At the bottom of http://websiteowner.info/tutorials/s...stomerrors.asp is the mention, and lists the different file sizes required for each error page.

grappafruit · November 10th, 2004, 5:42 AM

I did the test and it's simple, as explained in "cPanelAccount"/docs/cpanel/index.html

Quote:

Note: Custom error pages that are smaller than 10k in size will not display properly in Internet Explorer. Insert a large amount of text into a comment to create the required size

This info helped me out.

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grappafruit Registered User Seasoned Poster Joined in Oct 2004 48 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	Tried that - doesn't seem to work. Even if I put the example (a bit personalised) from the cPanel-guide in the "error-modification-page", it doesn't show any difference than the standard

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