How to create a custom error page (404) for Joomla 1.6?

Question

How to create a custom error page (404) for Joomla 1.6?

I tried the tutorial (http://docs.joomla.org/Tutorial:Create_a_Custom_404_Error_Page), but it does not work for 1.5.

Thanks.

Answer 1

A call → code is a call to a protected property, which is no longer possible. You must use getCode (). Fixed code for 1.6:

if ($this->error->getCode() == '404') { header('Location: /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=214'); exit; } ; 

Now it works for Yoomla 1.6. (as a fix for Example 1.5 at http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_Custom_404_Error_Page - the rest of this page is accurate)

Answer 2

I think I would solve this with a more traditional approach and just edit the .htaccess file.

I think this is also a search engine based approach.

For some ads

Answer 3

Just follow these steps:

• Create a category (without a heading) (see if it does not already exist by default)
• Create article
  • Title: 404
  • Category: Uncategorized
  • Article Content: Opps, Page Not Found (or Something Else)
• Create hidden menu
  • Menu → Menu Manager
  • Title: Hidden, Menu Type: Hiddenmenu
• Create a menu item inside this hidden menu
  • Menu Type: Single Article
  • Title: Page not found.
  • Alias: Page not found
  • Template: your template that you want to use to show that the page was not found
  • Link to article: to the article that you created in our case 404
  • Robots: no index; no follow (for google to avoid indexing this page)

• Then add this piece of code to your joomla error.php file, you may find that inside (root_directory) \ templates \ system \ error.php

   defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access'); if ($this->error->getCode() == '404' ) { header('Location: http://www.domain.com/page-not-found'); exit;}