How to make custom error pages

[emm]

Hi everyone,

I never noticed this before carefully. But yesterday I stumbled on a very funny and kool error page. This got me wanting to have make one of my own like that. It's usual for the users to make typos and reach a page that does not exist. How can I serve them with a customized, stylised error page of my own, instead of that boring microsoft page. I am really tired of that now after seeing this one.
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[quantum]

Yeah, I have seen some kool 404 error pages in my days! If you should check out quantumcloud.com has a kool 404 page too. Just type in any wrong url like www.quantumcloud.com/givemetheerrorpage.htm and you will see it. Again to do it you will need apache with .htaccess enabled. If you have that then it's just a snap. You will need to write something like this in a textpad:

ErrorDocument 401 /forbidden.htm
ErrorDocument 403 /forbidden.htm
ErrorDocument 404 /nofile.htm

Then save it as .htaccess in the root folder of the website. The code above not only works for page not found 404 error but also for 401/403, forbidden page error. You may also want to consult your web host to find out the exact method of doing it.

[http://www.plinko.net/404/area404.asp]

Has many links to some stunning error pages on the web.
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[emm]

That worked for me. Just out of curiosity. Is there any other way to make custom error pages, besides .htaccess?
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