Site navigation below

Questions answered

Terms explained

Place your text ad here.

World class File Recovery and renowned raid recovery services

WestNIC provides reliable web hosting services

When problems occur on a Web site, friendly and useful error messages can make the difference between winning and losing the loyalty of visitors. This set of articles explains what the error types mean and how to serve a custom error page for each with the Apache Web server.

Apache 400 error: bad request
The Web server is not configured or capable of responding to certain URLs or request types.
Apache 403 error: access forbidden
The site manager doesn't want users to see a file listing in directories without default documents.
Apache 404 error: document not found
Check links regularly, but give a friendly response to unexpected dead links or users' attempts to fish for pages.
Apache 500 error: internal server error
Something's gone wrong with your configuration, script or servlet; invite feedback as soon as possible!

Other Apache questions

The Code Style FAQ section answers hundreds of questions on Web technology and site development, including these most common questions about the Apache Web server.

Apache Web server questions

  1. How do I fix a 403 error?
  2. Apache reports "no listening sockets" and "unable to open logs"!
  3. How can I display something different every day?
  4. What is the Tomcat-Apache service for?
  5. I get a 500 Internal Server Error for my favourite Web site!
  6. Why do I get a 400 error?
  7. How do I configure the character set for XHTML with Apache?
Add this page to your chosen social bookmarking service

Style warning - please read

Home · CSS · Java · Javascript · HTML · Help · Log