Site Maintenance & Error Pages

October 24th, 2007

Whilst I have been deleting the unnesessary, old and forgotten files scattered on my website I have decided to look into creating my own error pages. I am always being warned when something goes wrong that error pages could not be found to handle the error, and now I am removing lots of files maybe they will be needed more than ever.

The 404 error is especially noticeable when you are producing a new PHP script to display links to the latest posts on your website.

So in order to create these pages, I’ve had to quickly learn a little bit of SSI or ‘Server Side Includes’ from Apache because I am unable to change the name or type of file used to handle the errors on my server to PHP.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html – all the reference I would need on SSI.