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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 02 June 2008 19:01 |
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Have you ever wondered how to get rid of the default Joomla 404 page and display a custom page that shows links or search results, so that your visitors can navigate to other pages with out feeling lost? Well, I have and I was googling a bit and found out the following: You can replace the above page with a custom page that looks exactly the same as the rest of your website. Here is what you have to do: - Create a new article page that you want to display for your users when they bump into 404 error. Please have a look on this website to get some inspiration how your 404 page should look like.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/17/404-error-pages-reloaded/
- Now, in your “template” directory create a file called “error.php” and add the following code
<?php
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted index access' );
if (($this->error->code) == '404') {
header('Location: ' . $this->baseurl . 'my/404/article/page/url');
exit;
}
- “my/404/article/page/url” is the url of your 404 article page. Replace it with the new article page that you have just created.
- Now is testing time: Navigate to any page in your website and from the url of the page delete something and try to reach that location, your new error page should popup up.
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