Miscellaneous Hacks - vB4 Error Pages

This hack allows you to use vBulletin template driven pages for 400, 401, 403, 404 and 500 webserver error pages that will perfectly match your own forum's design. Five custom pages are added to your forum by this hack. You can then instruct your webserver to use these pages for it's error pages.

I modified JamesAB's Custom HTTP Error Pages hack for vB3.8, so credit is due him for the original coding!

Features:

• Error pages will still work even if your forum is turned off in the AdminCP.
• Admin CP option to automatically redirect to your forum's main page after the error page is shown for 5 seconds.
• Admin CP option to show or hide notices on error pages.

Files: 5
Templates: 5
Time: 10 minutes
Compatible: 4.x.x

The templates are very basic and are designed to work with the default style. You may need to tweak them for your forum. They are grouped together under HTTP Error Templates.

The errors messages are fully phrased, but pretty generic. I encourage you to edit them to best suit your site. Each page uses three different vBulletin phrases:

• navbit
• title
• message

I include a modified copy of the vBulletin default .htaccess file in the mod. If you are not already using .htaccess, or if your existing file is the default vbulletin one, you are welcome to simply upload this to the root of your webserver and/or replace the existing file.

DO NOT DO THIS if you have made changes to the default file or if you have a custom file!

Please mark Installed and let me know if there are any issues or suggestions!

[gezuvor]

Reserved.

[sweetpotato]

Really interesting, Just downloaded but feel it is difficult to work with .htaccess. Will try this well I have more free time.
Thanks,

[Emeralda]

I think I have to first create the .htaccess file, but I dunno how >.<

[gezuvor]

Unfortunately, vBulletin does not have a built-in error capturing system, hence we have to rely on other internet technologies to solve this problem.

Working with .htaccess can be daunting to the uninitiated, but once you get the hang of it they are very powerful files.

There are lots of resources on the web that address .htaccess and a quick search will lead to any number of helpful tutorials.

I would offer to help further, but it's been sliced & diced 1,000 different ways already...

[sweetpotato]

I use Vbulletin .htaccess file and added these lines:

ErrorDocument 400 /400.php
	ErrorDocument 401 /401.php
	ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
	ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
	ErrorDocument 500 /500.php

Just installed and see it works. I will report if these is any problem.
Thank you for the nice mod. Really useful because I don't want user to see some error such as database errors.

[Emeralda]

Where is vBulletin's .htaccess file stored? I haven't found one myself >.<

[sweetpotato]

In the do_not_upload--->Rewrite--->Apache2

[Emeralda]

And where do I later put it in?

[sweetpotato]

In apache2 folder you will see .htaccess file. Just open it by notepad and copy and paste these lines at the end of .htaccess file:

        ErrorDocument 400 /400.php
	ErrorDocument 401 /401.php
	ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
	ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
	ErrorDocument 500 /500.php

Finally, upload the .htaccess to your forum root.
It works fine for me for the time being. I will report if there is any problem.