Miscellaneous Hacks - Custom HTTP Error Pages

About this hack:
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.

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.

Installation information on hack:

• Files to upload: 5
• New templates added: 5
• Time to install: 10 minutes.

You can test that the pages are working correctly by visiting:

<URL OF YOUR FORUM HOME>/400_forum.php
<URL OF YOUR FORUM HOME>/401_forum.php
<URL OF YOUR FORUM HOME>/403_forum.php
<URL OF YOUR FORUM HOME>/404_forum.php
<URL OF YOUR FORUM HOME>/500_forum.php

Next you will need to edit your webserver's configuration file or add lines into an .htaccess file.
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If your forum directory is the same as your website's document root, add these lines:

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

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If your forum is located in a directory within your website's document root, you'll need to replace <forum_directory> with the directory of your forum in these lines:

ErrorDocument 400 /<forum_directory>/400_forum.php
ErrorDocument 401 /<forum_directory>/401_forum.php
ErrorDocument 403 /<forum_directory>/403_forum.php
ErrorDocument 404 /<forum_directory>/404_forum.php
ErrorDocument 500 /<forum_directory>/500_forum.php

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• You can easily customize the templates for each indivual error page.
  The templates can be found grouped together under HTTP Error Templates.
  
• For the purpose of this hack, I used very generic error messages.
  You can easily edit any of the phrases to best suit your site.
  Each page uses three different vBulletin phrases.
  1. The error name in the navbit. (for example... jab_404_error_navbit )
  2. The title of the error table. (for example... jab_404_error_title )
  3. The message shown for the error. (for example... jab_404_error_message )

Updates:

Version 1.0 (03/05/09):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.8.0

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!

Screenshots:

These show the five error pages in vBulletin's default style.
Your pages will use your own forum's style and look just like your other pages.
In the "400 Bad Request" screen shot, I indicated the three phrases that can be edited.

[hambil]

Templates need to be cached - also, WOL support would be nice

[Namaless]

Italian Language for 1.00

[nohuhu]

Russian translation for this useful mod.

[chick]

wol support is a must but I have to say it didn't work for me either, I can get to the pages manually but when hitting real error none of the error pages show.

I use this in my .htaccess

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

it did not work.

I can add it to my docs on my server (it is my server) but how exactly do I do that please?

[chick]

James since I installed and uninstalled your product and deleted all the error.php pages my shtml error pages will no longer work (at least they use to work) can you please help and tell me what to do.

I think there is something left over in the database that is now preventing my shtml pages from working, can you please help?

[s8glive]

the code does not fully load in safri

[g_noe]

great mod.thanks

[Saviour]

Originally Posted by PossumX

Nice addition. One note is that it only works properly if the Store CSS Stylesheets as Files? option is set to No. When yes, the style is ignored, and it looks horrible. Would be great if you could integrate the usage of CSS Stylesheet files as well.

Same for me, as well.

Running vB 3.8.2 and vBA CMPS v3.2.0

Also, the header, navbar and footer links are not pointing to the correct pages...from the error pages.

[Saviour]

Uninstalled...until all the bugs are sorted.

[Silver Tiger]

If theres one for vbulletin 3.7 it would be great :up: