[marksfish]

I have just installed the component add on for search engine friendly urls. I am looking at how to create custom error pages for my site now as all non existent pages go to 000's 404 page. I have been able to utilise Joomla's error handling, but only if the page is www.mysite/index.php?holiday as that is how the SEF works. If I put in www.mysite/holiday, I am taken to 000 404 pages.

Other providers I have used in the past have folders outside of the public_html folder where you can add your customised pages, but they are not available here.

Has anyone successfuly managed to remove the 000 error pages from a Joomla installation, and if so, could you help me do it please?

Many thanks

Mark

[marksfish]

So far I have managed to use the 404 pages provided by the SEF extension. These only work though when trying to access a page generated by SEF that did originally exist but has been removed, not if it is typed incorrectly. I have also put a e404.php file in the public_html directory and the following code: ErrorDocument 404 /e404.php into my htaccess. This has the effect of any php file being called being redirected to the 404 page, but any file with a .htm extension or just a directory name returning a Internal Server Error.

Getting there slowly.

[yeleyko]

rename htaccess.txt
to .htaccess (do not forget include the "." before)

download .htaccess to your computer, open with Notepad
find every "index.php" and before it put the sign "/"

after it should look
/index.php

save the file and upload back to your web folder

go to Joomla admin, Global Configuration and make Search Engine Friendly URLs.

and ...one more thing: this process id described in your CPanel as well as somewhere on this forum...

[marksfish]

I found out last night that the .htaccess file is not required by Joomla (even though I had correctly renamed the file thasnk you). Putting a 404.php page in the root of the public directory enabled the SEF add on to correctly displpay them.

I did search this forum and ther Joomla forum before posting but the searches did not bring up relevant information .

[yeleyko]

Glad you've managed this. I by myself used to struggle a lot from this issue until have found this under Frequently Asked Questions in CPanel: