{"id":1978,"date":"2021-09-17T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2021-09-17T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:54:44","slug":"how-to-set-custom-404-page-in-joomla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/how-to-set-custom-404-page-in-joomla\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set custom 404 page in joomla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joomla is a CMS that is a simple to use content management system that&#8217;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&#8217;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\u2013view\u2013controller (MVC) web application framework that may even be used severally. it&#8217;s a platform that uses cPanel hosting server to host sites developed in Joomla.<\/p>\n<p>Now lets see a way to create 404.shtml file underneath the document root then open the error.php file<\/p>\n<p>vi \/home\/username\/public_html\/templates\/system\/error.php<br \/>\nthen add the following code below the line \u201cdefined( \u2018_JEXEC\u2019 ) or die( \u2018Restricted access\u2019 );\u201d<br \/>\nif (($this-&gt;error-&gt;code) == \u2018404\u2019) {<br \/>\necho file_get_contents(\u2018http:\/\/www.domain.com\/404.shtml\u2019);<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nelse<br \/>\n{<br \/>\nAnd then add the following code at the end of error.php file<br \/>\n&lt;?php<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n?<\/p>\n<p>Joomla is actually a good platform that many small and huge on-line businesses are using Joomla to create thier web site. 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