Configuring Your Web Server for Custom Error Documents
Before you can use custom error documents, you have to set up your Web server to send your custom documents instead of sending the default ones. Custom error documents can be plain HTML documents or they can be generated dynamically using CGI scripts. This section includes instructions on setting up pointers to custom error documents on several popular Web servers.
The Apache Web Server
The Apache Web server has very robust support for custom error documents. You can specify custom error documents in a wide variety of contexts. For example, you can modify the global configuration files to specify specific error documents for the entire server, for virtual hosts served by the server, or ...
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