What is the best 404 error or redirect page?

[somanweb]

Hi ,

Displaying 404 error page good idea, then only visitors comes to know , they are trying to non existing page / url.

Soman

[pmayor]

I am finding this all very confusing.

I very much need to accomplish what you are talking about here but I'm not sure how to do it.

Could some one please explain what you do exactly?

[htmlbasictutor]

First of all you need to understand what the purpose of the 404 error is. It appears when the web server does not find the page requested.

Next, if you have a missing page or server failure, then the visitor should see a custom error page. This way they don't feel lost, like when the web hosting company shows their standard error page.

If you want to have the www version of your website served to the visitor instead of the non www version (or visa versa) then you need a 301 permanent redirect instruction done in your .htaccess file (Apache servers).

[pmayor]

html-

I'm not sure if I'm explaining what I mean.

If I create a custom error page, somehow my web browser needs to know where this page is and how to look it up, right? (Remember, I'm talking about off-line browsing without a server). So I can't find where the 404 error page is that a browser uses when it is offline.

[somanweb]

Hello pmayor,

I think you are expecting like Gears feature.

If so go through the below link to get more information

http://gears.google.com/

Somanweb