Error Pages in General Topic is solved

[chadduck]

Well after some struggles, I finally have a working 404 error page in Joomla 4. It took some research and some combining of tutorials and Joomla documentation BUT it is accomplished.

As I was looking at the <domain>/errors directory I am wondering if I need to create/convert these remaining files for Joomla 4/5
401 (Unauthorized Access),
403 (Forbidden Access),
and 500 (Internal Server Error)

Is there any real reason to do so?

Having figured out the 404 I don't "think" it should be that difficult if needed.

Any insight/recommendations are welcome.

BJ

[AMurray]

Even if you don't have any of those, you will receive Apache's standard 40x or 50x server error messages (usually plain black text on a white screen).

What files are in your "errors directory" that you mention? Is that where your web host has ready-made custom error document files? If so I don't think there's any need to create them in Joomla. Just use the ones that are already provided.

If you want to customise them you can do so external to Joomla. Design the pages (use Notepad++ to create basic HTML pages) for each of the 40x or 50x error pages you need. Reference them in your .htaccess file like

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ErrorDocument 404 /errors/not_found.html
ErrorDocument 500 / errors/server_error.html

(for each of the required 40x or 500x errors you need an error page).

If you search the web for "server error templates" you might find some HTML templates to get you started. Again, this would be outside of Joomla, so you would be raw-coding. I also expect your web host would have documentation on how to create custom HTTP error messages

Ultimately, of course, the aim is never to need any of those error pages and always have a smoothly operating website.

[chadduck]

What files are in your "errors directory" that you mention?

Design the pages (use Notepad++ to create basic HTML pages) for each of the 40x or 50x error pages you need.

Mr Murray

Thank you for your response. Regarding the questions that you asked...

The error directory DOES already contains my customized pages that I identified. I was just curious if it was desirable to have them coded as a internal Joomla page.

Based upon you answer - I guess it is either not a necessity nor needed.

Thank you again.

BJ

[AMurray]

In closing, in my own experience, I've only tried to create the 404 Error page in Joomla itself (as that ist he one that was documented at the time).

It may be possible to do the other error page types, but I have never tried it.

If you already have external error pages that you can reference with ErrorDOcument directives in your .htaccess, I would say stick with that method.

[chadduck]

If you already have external error pages that you can reference with ErrorDOcument directives in your .htaccess, I would say stick with that method.

THANK YOU again...

BJ