Making updates on my website, there are a lot of pages that I don't use left. So I delete them.
Unfortunately some slight idexing has been made by search engine so when u type the name of website of mine it appears non more existent pages too in browser results.
I need to create a custum 404 page not found that appears everytime people go on pages that doesn't exist, respecting google SEO policy and w3c standards.
Unfortunately I can't.
Someone could teach me please?
Make a .html document in your webserver or website's directory in the htdocs then make a new folder that is called "err", then upload all your Error pages like 404, The page cannot be found or 403, Forbidden. Then place those files in the err folder and re-name them to the error codes. If you are using cPanel then search (Using the search bar) or find (By browsing the tools listed) Error Pages. Go from there with the instructions given on cPanel.
Hope this helps you,
Jay Salway (13 year old developer)
Create a static page containing your custom message and anything else you want (eg. site layout etc.) and save it somewhere appropriate within your site (eg. from the root: /errors/404.asp). Within that page make sure you write a 404 response header (eg. Response.Status = "404 Page Not found")
In IIS (the option will also be available somewhere similar under Apache if you are running that) open up the settings for your website and choose 'Error Pages' then look for the status code 404 (by default there should be one but you may need to create it) open that up and choose the option 'Execute a URL on this site' and enter the url chosen above /error/404.asp)
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I'm currently developing a simple static web page with only HTML.
I'm using tags with href to link to different pages and the VS code live server used to work when I inserted a link like page1.html it would send the browser to this page.
But I prefer to have just the page without the .html.
When I remove the .html from the link the live server gives an error: Cannot GET /page1
But when I deploy my site on Netlify it does, however, find the page, but this breaks the development process for me.
How can I fix the live server so it also gets sent to the correct page?
Thank you in advance,
Timo
This is a common server behaviour. The server tries to find a file or folder name page1 but doesn't find it. Nothing wrong with live server. I guess Netlify is the one doing extra magic.
However if you want to remove the .html in page1 you could create a folder name page1 and put inside a index.html with the content. This way the server will find the folder named page1 and return the index.html. This will also work with live server and any standard server.
This is how your folder structure could look like:
Cannot GET /source/gfdfghdgh/A/1&2.html
This is the error I get because of the '&' symbol.
Make sure your file name is browser friendly.
VS CODE LIVE SERVER CANNOT GET ERROR MESSAGE
Restart VSCode
Sometimes the best you can do is start VSCode from scratch. First, save all of your work. Then close VSCode, which will also stop all of the extensions you've installed. Then, reopen VSCode and try again – go to the HTML file you want to view, right-click## Heading ##, and select "Open with Live Server".
If I want to load the homepage of https://medium.com/ by typing the exact index.html file address into my browser, how would I do that? Or is it not possible?
https://medium.com/index.html gives me a 404 error. Also curious how I would do this more broadly with any webpage for which my browser is displaying a url that does not end in .html.
Common static websites hosted just as files somewhere usually have an index.html document which can be resolved either directly or is normally loaded when no particular document is specified so https://example.com/ and https://example.com/index.html both work.
But this is not how most webs work. Pages can be dynamically generated server side, you just send a request to the server and if the path matches some server operation it will create a response for you. Unless https://example.com/ returns documents from a directory using something classic like the Apache Web Server set to serve static files from a directory, it won't work.
There is no general way to know what, if any, URLs for a given website resolve to duplicates of the homepage (or any other page).
Dynamically generated sites, in particular, tend not to have alternative URLs for pages.
When a website doesn't have an index.html file, the navigator displays an auto generated page right ?
Here is an example of what I mean.
This page is very handful to explore a website, but sadly it is only displayed when there is no index.html page.
Is it possible to access such a page on a website, even though index.html exists in the folder ?
I'm using Opera, but I have tried other navigators and none of the common ones seems to do what I want ^^
Thanks for reading
This is not an auto generated page. It is directory browsing of server which can be enabled/disabled through server control panel (or using .htaccess in linux servers).
When you have default document (like index.html) in a folder, the server servs the default document instead of directory browsing. So if you want to let directory browsing when you have index.html, you have to clear the index.hmtl from the list of default documents. This can be done using IIS settings (if you have access to server) or through hosting control panel in website settings (in shared hostings) (or by direct editing of web.config or .htaccess)
the navigator displays an auto generated page
No. This has nothing to do with the browser. The browser displays whatever the server returns. Nothing more, nothing less.
What you're seeing on that link is from the Apache web server. That web server is configured to (and can be configured not to) return a generated directory listing when no default response can be determined.
The "default response" might be index.html, or default.html, or literally anything that the web server is configured to look for by default. (Those are just, well, the common defaults.)
In many modern web applications the concept of a "page" doesn't even really mean the same thing, because things like MVC frameworks don't just browse directories for .html files but instead examine requested routes and generate responses from code.
Is it possible to access such a page on a website, eventho index.html exist in the folder ?
No. Because that "page" doesn't exist. The web server returned that to you because it was configured to. If it's not configured to then that data doesn't exist.
I tried looking for a solution to this problem (tried cleaning cookies and cache from my browser already). The problem is, I am trying to publish my first website on Github (I am a newbie web developer) and whenever I go to the published link, only the name of the repository shows up, on a blank page (instead of displaying my html+css). And yes, I have commited the files to the Master branch and all that. Would be very thankful if someone helped since I am stuck on this (:
Tried cleaning cookies and Cache
I followed all steps from a tutorial
I uploaded archives (HTML + CSS + Images)
I included a README document on the repository
Expected results would be my webpage showing up (My page has no issues and it shows up locally, but not on the github pages link)
The actual result: sometime si get error 404 and sometimes I only get the name of the repository on a blank page
Is your homepage named index.html?
GitHub pages check for this index term to render html. If found it does render, otherwise page not error pops up.
I faced the same issue(404 on a newly set up GitHub pages website). I tried many methods such as switching a new theme etc. But it seems that it still did not work on my case. I finally solved it by switching the branch of GitHub pages website to another branch first, click save. Wait for a while and switch it back again. Then the 404 problem was suddenly solved.
I'm developing my site in modx, and have some custom error pages that I want to group in a folder called "error", and I want them to only be accessible through domain.com/error/page.html. I've already placed the custom error pages in a container called error, which basically looks like the image below.
Only the pages are still only accessible from the root (so from domain.com/page.html), even though they are now in the "error" container. How do I change it so that when people see my error pages, they'll see the url: "domain.com/error/page.html"? Does anyone know how to do this?
p.s.: I've already figured out that I can influence the url of a page by typing the desired url in its "alias"-field. So an alias of "error/page" would mean it can be found at "domain.com/error/page.html".
But the weird thing is that this no longer works when I put the pages in an "error" folder. When I do that I can access the folder itself through domain.com/error, but no longer the pages in the folder at domain.com/error/page.html
Look in your system settings for the error page & access denied page, just set those to the IDs of the custom pages you have created. If you want custom pages for other error codes, you may have to use some redirect rules in an htaccess or apache config file. Some of them will probably never work [like 500 errors] in which case you would have to use a static html file & the server configuration to point to it.
as for setting the path - you will have to set your furls [more system settings] to "use friendly alias path'
also - clear your cache, with modx when in doubt clear the cache...