Hour 23. Creating Custom Error Documents
What can make your Web site more user friendly when something goes wrong? The answer is displaying a custom error document. When an error occurs, the Web server usually displays a default error document. Most Web servers allow you to specify that custom documents be substituted for the default ones. In this hour, I’ll discuss how to configure your Web server to use custom error documents as well as how to write CGI scripts that display them.
In this hour, you’ll learn
What exactly error documents are
How to set up your Web site to use custom error documents
What custom error documents should contain
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