Currently there are three options for creating error pages in the Drupal system, that I know of. I’m going to show here which I think is the best, for reasons of usability, performance and general webmaster sanity. At the foot of this article, there’s some free code too!

The options:

• Drupal’s built-in support for error pages (@ /admin/settings/error-reporting)
• Search404.module (404’s only, of course)
• Customerror.module (404 & 403)

Drupal’s build in error page support

A comparison of available methods of handling error pages (specifically 404, 403) in Drupal, with some useful code snippets on how to handle these in a friendly, efficient manner.

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