{"id":3873,"date":"2009-09-05T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?page_id=3873"},"modified":"2013-01-28T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:39:04","slug":"custom-error-pages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/snippets\/htaccess\/custom-error-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Error Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre rel=\"htaccess\"><code>ErrorDocument 400 \/400.html\r\nErrorDocument 401 \/401.html\r\nErrorDocument 403 \/403.html\r\nErrorDocument 404 \/404.html\r\nErrorDocument 405 \/405.html\r\nErrorDocument 408 \/408.html\r\nErrorDocument 414 \/414.html\r\nErrorDocument 500 \/500.html\r\nErrorDocument 502 \/502.html\r\nErrorDocument 504 \/504.html<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>And a PHP template for dealing with any sort of error, if you want to keep it simple:<\/p>\n<pre rel=\"PHP\"><code>&lt;?php\r\n\r\n$status=$_SERVER['REDIRECT_STATUS'];\r\n$codes=array(\r\n      400 =&gt; array('400 Bad Request', 'The request cannot be fulfilled due to bad syntax.'),\r\n      401 =&gt; array('401 Login Error', 'It appears that the password and\/or user-name you entered was incorrect.'),\r\n      403 =&gt; array('403 Forbidden', 'Sorry, employees and staff only.'),\r\n      404 =&gt; array('404 Missing', 'We\\'re sorry, but the page you\\'re looking for is missing, hiding, or maybe it moved somewhere else and forgot to tell you.'),\r\n      405 =&gt; array('405 Method Not Allowed', 'The method specified in the Request-Line is not allowed for the specified resource.'),\r\n      408 =&gt; array('408 Request Timeout', 'Your browser failed to send a request in the time allowed by the server.'),\r\n      414 =&gt; array('414 URL To Long', 'The URL you entered is longer than the maximum length.'),\r\n      500 =&gt; array('500 Internal Server Error', 'The request was unsuccessful due to an unexpected condition encountered by the server.'),\r\n      502 =&gt; array('502 Bad Gateway', 'The server received an invalid response from the upstream server while trying to fulfill the request.'),\r\n      504 =&gt; array('504 Gateway Timeout', 'The upstream server failed to send a request in the time allowed by the server.'),\r\n);\r\n\r\n$errortitle=$codes[$status][0];\r\n$message=$codes[$status][1];\r\n\r\nif($errortitle==false){\r\n       $errortitle=\"Unknown Error\";\r\n       $message=\"An unknown error has occurred.\";\r\n}\r\n\r\n?&gt;\r\n&lt;!doctype html&gt;\r\n&lt;html&gt;\r\n&lt;head&gt;\r\n&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php echo(\"$errortitle\");?&gt;&lt;\/title&gt;\r\n&lt;meta charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;\r\n&lt;\/head&gt;\r\n&lt;body&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;!-- Insert headers here. --&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;?php\r\necho('&lt;h1&gt;'.$errortitle.'&lt;\/h1&gt;');\r\necho('&lt;p&gt;'.$message.'&lt;\/p&gt;');\r\n?&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;!-- Insert footers here. --&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;\/body&gt;\r\n&lt;\/html&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ErrorDocument 400 \/400.html ErrorDocument 401 \/401.html ErrorDocument 403 \/403.html ErrorDocument 404 \/404.html ErrorDocument 405 \/405.html ErrorDocument 408 \/408.html ErrorDocument 414 \/414.html ErrorDocument 500 \/500.html ErrorDocument 502 \/502.html ErrorDocument 504 \/504.html And a PHP template for dealing with any sort of error, if you want to keep it simple: &lt;?php $status=$_SERVER[&#8216;REDIRECT_STATUS&#8217;]; 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