htaccess custom error documents

The htaccess gives you the ability to redirect the visitor to different pages if they try to access an invalid page. You can use a custom error page for any type of error as long as you know its number. using custom error page helps lot to increase the performence in Search Engine Optimizaton.

To know detailed http error codes refer to my previous post.to work out this you need to add these htaccess command to your httaccess file and include in your server root folder.

To know how to user htaccess file please refere to my previouse post.

Example: 404 Page Not Found. The layout for this command is :

ErrorDocument errornumber /filename.html

So if you create a page called NotFound.html and you wanted to use it as the 404 error page, the command would be :

ErrorDocument 404 /NotFound.html

If you want to keep all of the error pages in a separate directory, just include the directory name in the file path :

ErrorDocument 404 /errorpages/NotFound.html

The most used error documents are :

400 Bad Request A generic kind of error that people get into by doing some strange stuff with your URL or scripts.

401 Authorization Required When someone tries to enter a protected area without proper authorization.

403 Forbidden When a file with permissions not allowing it to be accessed by the user is requested.

404 Not Found Kinda obvious.

500 Internal Server Error This may help you with internal server errors in any scripts you have running.

There are many others, To view complete http error code see my previous post.

Http protocol error and response code reference.

we know that web servers and web client uses mostly common protocol is HTTP, we need use response codes in our application . So i made a simple and breif reference below

Successful Client Requests

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

Client Request Redirected

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

Client Request Errors

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

Server Errors

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

How to host multiple domains in a single hosting package.

In our real time,we work mostly small websites where limited static files are hosted. So in that case we waste additional money for less than a Mb files. Here we learn simple hack how to add multiple sites to single account using single .htaccess file.

For example, if you are hosting your domain name "maheshchari.com" with us and added a Domain Alias for "mahesh.com", then http://www.maheshchari.com and http://www.mahesh.com would take a visitor to the exact same pages of maheshchari.com website. http://maheshchari.com/somefile.html would bring someone to the exact same page as http://mahesh.com/somefile.html.

Using this method, you can host an additional website within your account for each Domain you add. Or you can point the mahesh.com same as maheshchari.com,So you are adding "A" same for both domains in DNS management .

After that This is a custom configuration requiring a couple extra steps.

After Pointing both domain to same Server IP , then place an .htaccess file in /htdocs/www of the following example format:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  mahesh.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mahesh/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  /mahesh/$1

Then, upload your HTML files maheshchari.com to /htdocs/www/ and your HTML files for mahesh.com to /htdocs/www/mahesh

Remeber you can’t add emails for mahesh.com for that .