Graphic Apache Error Pages.

Jonathan Marc Bearak jonathanbearak at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 10 03:35:51 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:30, Nando wrote:
> Ok, so here it is a sample of i was talking about.
> I's quite simple.
> 
> http://icewind.no.sapo.pt/error404.png
> 
> My intencion, was to have a rpm that installed this, changing the default
> ones, that apache brings.
> 
> Making this optional.
> 

IMHO, that example is worse than the default error page.  Most people do
not know what "Error 404" means.  

Hypothetically, a simple improvement to the default 404 message could be
s/URL/(document|file), followed by an explanatory statement like, "You
may have typed the wrong web address."

Also, looking at /var/www/error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var, there are a
number of translations that should be taken into account, further
complicating things.

Just as fedora artwork is designed with consistency in mind, it is up to
an individual website to design error pages consistent with the rest of
their website.  The default error pages are clean and functional.






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