I learned how to make a customized Error 404 for my site!

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It works! It works! Woo Hoo! I almost feel like I know something about web design! Yeay me! It will even redirect a person to the homepage after 7 seconds. :D

Here's how I did it:

If You're Using Apache

You probably have a .htaccess file in your Web root directory already, controlling various Apache functions. If you don't have such a file, you need to create one. You can do this whether you are in charge of the server or just one of a number of people who use it.

To serve a custom 404 page, the .htaccess file should contain a line like this:

ErrorDocument 404 /errordocs/404.html

where "/errordocs/404.html" is the name of the file you want to serve. This doesn't have to be a flat HTML file: It can be PHP, ASP, SHTML, or whatever you like. Also note that the file can contain a series of ErrorDocument lines, using the same syntax to serve custom pages for various other errors: 401, 500, whatever you like, just by replacing "404" with the relevant number.

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/02/40/index4a_page3.html?tw=backend

In case you're incredibly bord and you want to see what my Error404 page looks like... here it is: www.brainshrub.com/error404