Comments on: How to Create 404 Page Not Found Custom Error Pages in PHP

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:16:52 +0000

check out google webmaster 404’s with the new script to generate links on your 404’s of related content in your domain

By: Bitstar

Bitstar — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:04:40 +0000

Unfortunatly some hosting companies don’t let you handle custom 404 errors in your website. I mean the cheap ones. They like to shove some ads in the user’s face instead.

I can however understand that, because our goal here is the same. Even if the user didn’t find the right content we want to keep him on the website and perhaps show his some ads or whatever.

By: Barry Wise

Barry Wise — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:39:15 +0000

Using proper 404s and 301s are both essential, it’s worth the time to set them up.

By: HIP

HIP — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:12:42 +0000

I have a blog with custom 404 through wordpress though do need to sort this for old pages. Done the redirects though could do with a 404 page.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:59:22 +0000

Hi all,

Mark over at The Niche Store Builder (http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com) has an article about error pages in WP. Could be worth a look.

By: g1smd

g1smd — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:19:14 +0000

The Live HTTP Headers extension for Mozilla Seamonkey or for Mozilla Firefox is also very useful.

By: Barry Wise

Barry Wise — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:44:52 +0000

I should have specified that further; Wordpress does correctly handle 404s, but there are some which don’t.

If you’d like to know how your server is handling them, just check a status code tool, like this one: http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

It will show you the exact response code your server is returning. You want to see 404 for pages which are not there, 200 for normal OK pages, and 301 for any pages you want to redirect with a rewrite rule.

By: XIII

XIII — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:38:37 +0000

Hmm, so the way WordPress handles this by default for example, is wrong? Or correct?
Which CMS does this correctly and which doesn’t?

By: PlugIM.com

PlugIM.com — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:05:51 +0000

How to Create 404 Page Not Found Custom Error Pages in PHP…

Google’s Official Blog has been talking about 404 server response codes (Page Not Found errors) this week, and since I just wrote about 301 Redirect Responses last week I guess I might as well pick up where they left off and describe how to handle a cu…