Customizing Web Server Error Messages

When visitors coming to your site request pages that the web server cannot find, the web server generates and displays a standard HTML page with an error message. The standard error messages may inform of problems, but they do not usually say how to resolve them or how to get the lost visitor on his way, and they also look dull.

You may want to create your own error pages and use them on your web server. With Plesk you can customize the following error messages:

To configure Plesk's web server to show your custom error pages:

  1. Switch on support for custom error documents through Plesk.
    1. On your Home page click the required domain name.
    2. Click Setup.
    3. Select the Custom Error Documents check box.
    4. Click OK.
  2. Click the required domain name on your Home page and go to Web Directories to see the list of error documents for the root web directory (error documents located here are used for all domain web pages). If you want to customize error pages for a certain web directory, go to that directory.
  3. Click Error Documents tab and click the required error document in the list.
  4. Once the web server is restarted, it will start using your error documents.