How to set custom 404 page in joomla

• 17 September 2021
• in: CMS Hosting

Joomla is a CMS that is a simple to use content management system that’s developed in PHP to keeps track of each piece of content on your Web site. It additionally supports features that allows you to create websites and powerful on-line applications. Joomla is an open source that’s freely available and developed in PHP scripting language with MySQL database support. Using Joomla as a CMS has the main advantage that it needs no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Joomla is one of the well known and a free, open source content management system (CMS) for business content on the World Wide Web and intranets and a model–view–controller (MVC) web application framework that may even be used severally. it’s a platform that uses cPanel hosting server to host sites developed in Joomla.

Now lets see a way to create 404.shtml file underneath the document root then open the error.php file

vi /home/username/public_html/templates/system/error.php
then add the following code below the line “defined( ‘_JEXEC’ ) or die( ‘Restricted access’ );”
if (($this->error->code) == ‘404’) {
echo file_get_contents(‘http://www.domain.com/404.shtml’);
}
else
{
And then add the following code at the end of error.php file
<?php
}
?

Joomla is actually a good platform that many small and huge on-line businesses are using Joomla to create thier web site. Ownwebservers web hosting providers are using reliable and cheap Joomla servers from last decade with quality hardware and technical support.