no directory exist

[diabolo]

I'm not sure how I would display a specific custom error page for
dir/non_existent_dir_1

I know to display a regular 404 error page would be using cPanel, but i want this to be a custom one different from just a regular 404.

Like it would say, this directory could not be found, please go to home
instead of the regular, this page is missing

I was thinking maybe a .htaccess?

[xav0989]

I don't know of any way of doing this through .htaccess. However, you could use this snippet I made to check if the missing page is a directory of a page, and then output a different html depending.

<?php
if (is_dir($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {
    //It is a directory, output directory only 404 page

    //code here
    exit;
} else {
    //It is a page, output page only 404 page

    //code here
    exit;
}
?>

[marshian]

It's done with .htaccess
Add this to the .htaccess file in the directory you want to change:

ErrorDocument 404 file.php

You can replace 404 with other status codes and of course change file.php into the url for the error document.

[diabolo]

thank you, i will go try that and see how it works