Joomla! Extensions :: Modules, Plugins & Mods

by **anvj** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:52 pm

You can create specific Joomla! articles to be displayed upon the page not found (HTML error 404), View not found [name, type, prefix]: more-about-joomla,html,contentView (HTML error 500), or any other error. The instructions below will create custom error pages for both HTML errors 404 and 500.

Create two new Joomla! articles for HTML errors 404 and 500. Example:
- Handle HTML Error 404 with the Joomla! Article ID 47: http://www.anvj.com/joomla/index.php?op ... icle&id=47
- Handle HTML Error 500 with the Joomla! Article ID 48: http://www.anvj.com/joomla/index.php?op ... icle&id=48
Locate and modify the error.php file within the currently used template, e.g. templates/system/error.php as follows:
Original code:
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// no direct access defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' ); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

New code:
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// no direct access defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' ); if ($this->error->code == '404') { header('Location: '.$this->baseurl.'/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47'); exit; } elseif ($this->error->code == '500') { header('Location: '.$this->baseurl.'/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48'); exit; } ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Make sure to disallow these two pages from being indexed by search bots. Add the following two lines to your robots.txt file:
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Disallow: /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47 Disallow: /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48

Joomla! Extensions :: Modules, Plugins & Mods

Custom error pages, e.g. HTML errors 404 and 500

Custom error pages, e.g. HTML errors 404 and 500

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