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Concrete5 – Custom 404 page

Posted in Concrete5, PHP by Remo Laubacher on the January 18th, 2010

It hopefullly doesn’t happen very often but sometimes a user might enter an address which doesn’t exist. In most situations a simple page is displayed, telling him that the page doesn’t exist. Having some more detailled information can be very helpful, especially when you just relaunched your website. Google & Co need a while to reindex your page and users will probably see “page not found” more frequently than usually.

Concrete5 allows you to customize this page but it needs a few modifications. Some of them are probably a bit hard to find – which is why I wrote this tutorial. The standard Concrete5 “page not found” page looks like this:

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