Talk:Creating a Custom 404 Error Page

From Joomla! Documentation

Deleted by JM as it advertises a specific extension.

Minor recommendation

As written, the code caused this error "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete..." when redirecting things like www.mysite.com/somefolder/non-existent_page.htm

Instead of

if (($this->error->code) == '404') {
header('Location: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75');
exit;
} 

I used this

if (($this->error->code) == '404') {
header('Location: /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75');
exit;
} 

and that resolved the issue.

-Tom Warfield www.warfieldconsulting.com

What If

How should the redirection code be if we have a multi-language Joomla 1.7 installation? That is we will need as many 404 redirections as the number of installed languages.