Handle 404, 500, and 301 Apache Errors With .htaccess file
If A 404 Error happen in your web site it will show a not available page with no links. You can escape from this situation very easly. The solution is surprisingly simple. Use your .htaccess file simply put a line
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
in the file. The error redirected to your home page. Problem solved.
Interestingly enough you can also redirect to a specific page such as a custom 404 error page that you code up in php . Just replace the “/errors/badrequest.html” part with “/myCustom404ErrorPage.php” and you’ll be fine.
Please find below a pretty complete list of server returned errors.
Apache Server Error Codes
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