How to set a specific 404 page

Hi,
In my previous template I used custom 404 page. This one: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit&id=100. How could I use this page with your News 2 template. I am using Joomla 3 and K2 .

With gavick templates there is a specific file:
/news2/templates/gk_news2/error.php
which renders 404 page.

Thank you, but where in this code should I put my custom 404 page?

I need an answer to this, please!

You need to modify this file - its a php/html file with quite easy structure containing entire site (headers, body etc).
I don't know how you want to modify it.

I created specific page to be my 404 page. But I don`t know how to replace the default template 404 page with my custom one. In the previous templates I used there was an option to put the admin link to the page I created - index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit&id=100 and everything worked just fine. Like here: https://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_Cust ... Error_Page. And in your template I don`t know how to do it.

You need to copy html structure from your custom page to that file.
Could you please post an url to your site to this custom 404 one? Ill try to provide you with information what you need to copy.

Ok, I just got a great tip from one of our mods... Forget everything... Simply edit error.php file and replace its content with:

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<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.redirected.com/' );
exit;
?>


where 'http://www.redirected.com/' is a link to a custom content that should act as new 404 page.

Should I replace all of the error.php content only with this code? Or add this somewhere?

It should work doing it one of two ways:
1. Replace entire file with only this code
2. Appending this code to the file (at it's top) and leaving all the rest - it should execute this code and stop right after not executing anything else.

OK - I put your code in the beggining of error.php and replaced the link like this:
<?php
header( 'Location: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit&id=100' );
exit;
?>
But now it gives me the following error: http://www.zdravduh.com/index.php/404

Please copy entire error.php content and paste here between [ code ] and [/ code ] (without spaces) tags.

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<?php

/**
 *
 * Error view
 *
 * @version             1.0.0
 * @package             Gavern Framework
 * @copyright         Copyright (C) 2010 - 2011 GavickPro. All rights reserved.
 *               
 */

// No direct access.
<?php
header( 'Location: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit&id=100' );
exit;
?>

defined('_JEXEC') or die;

jimport('joomla.factory');
// get the URI instance
$uri = JURI::getInstance();
// get the template params
$templateParams = JFactory::getApplication()->getTemplate(true)->params;

if($templateParams->get('webmaster_contact_type') != 'none') {
     // get the webmaster e-mail value
     $webmaster_contact = $templateParams->get('webmaster_contact', '');
     if($templateParams->get('webmaster_contact_type') == 'email') {
          // e-mail cloak
          $searchEmail = '([\w\.\-]+\@(?:[a-z0-9\.\-]+\.)+(?:[a-z0-9\-]{2,4}))';
          $searchText = '([\x20-\x7f][^<>]+)';
          $pattern = '~(?:<a [\w "\'=\@\.\-]*href\s*=\s*"mailto:' . $searchEmail . '"[\w "\'=\@\.\-]*)>' . $searchText . '</a>~i';   
          preg_match($pattern, '<a href="mailto:'.$webmaster_contact.'">'.JText::_('TPL_GK_LANG_CONTACT_WEBMASTER').'</a>', $regs, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
          $replacement = JHtml::_('email.cloak', $regs[1][0], 1, $regs[2][0], 0);
          $webmaster_contact_email = substr_replace($webmaster_contact, $replacement, $regs[0][1], strlen($regs[0][0]));
     }
}

// get necessary template parameters
$templateParams = JFactory::getApplication()->getTemplate(true)->params;
$pageName = JFactory::getDocument()->getTitle();

// get logo configuration
$logo_type = $templateParams->get('logo_type');
$logo_image = $templateParams->get('logo_image');
$template_style = $templateParams->get('template_color');

if(($logo_image == '') || ($templateParams->get('logo_type') == 'css')) {
     $logo_image = JURI::base() . '../images/logo.png';
} else {
     $logo_image = JURI::base() . $logo_image;
}

$logo_text = $templateParams->get('logo_text', '');
$logo_slogan = $templateParams->get('logo_slogan', '');

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" dir="<?php echo $this->direction; ?>">
<head>
<title><?php echo $this->error->getCode(); ?>-<?php echo $this->title; ?></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=2.0">
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Bitter:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo JURI::base(); ?>templates/<?php echo $this->template; ?>/css/system/error.style<?php echo $template_style; ?>.css" type="text/css" />
<?php if($templateParams->get('css_override')) : ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo JURI::base(); ?>templates/<?php echo $this->template; ?>/css/override.css" type="text/css" />
<?php endif; ?>
</head>
<body>
<div id="gkPage">
      <div id="gkPageTop">
         <?php if ($logo_type !=='none'): ?>
            <?php if($logo_type == 'css') : ?>
            <a href="./" id="gkLogo" class="cssLogo"></a>
            <?php elseif($logo_type =='text') : ?>
            <a href="./" id="gkLogo" class="text"> <span><?php echo preg_replace('/__(.*?)__/i', '<sup>${1}</sup>', $logo_text); ?></span> <small class="gkLogoSlogan"><?php echo $logo_slogan; ?></small> </a>
            <?php elseif($logo_type =='image') : ?>
               <a href="./" id="gkLogo"> <img src="<?php echo $logo_image; ?>" alt="<?php echo $pageName; ?>" /></a>
            <?php endif; ?>
         <?php endif; ?>
      </div>
      <div id="gkPageWrap">
            <div id="frame">
                  <div id="errorDescription">
                        <?php if($this->error->getCode() == 403 || $this->error->getCode() == 404) : ?>
                           <h2><span><?php echo $this->error->getCode(); ?></span><?php echo JText::_('TPL_GK_LANG_ERROR_INFO'); ?> </h2>
                        <?php else : ?>
                           <h2><span><?php echo $this->error->getCode(); ?></span><?php echo $this->error->getMessage(); ?> </h2>
                        <?php endif; ?>
                        <h3><?php echo JText::_('TPL_GK_LANG_ERROR_DESC'); ?></h3>
                  </div>
            </div>
            <div id="errorboxbody"> <a href="<?php echo JURI::base(); ?>" title="<?php echo JText::_('JERROR_LAYOUT_GO_TO_THE_HOME_PAGE'); ?>"><?php echo JText::_('JERROR_LAYOUT_HOME_PAGE'); ?></a> |
                  <?php if($templateParams->get('webmaster_contact_type') == 'email') :
                          echo $webmaster_contact_email;
                     ?>
                  <?php elseif($templateParams->get('webmaster_contact_type') == 'url') : ?>
                  <a href="<?php echo $webmaster_contact; ?>">
                  <?php  echo JText::_('TPL_GK_LANG_CONTACT_WEBMASTER'); ?>
                  </a>
                  <?php endif; ?>
            </div>
      </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>


You haven't added the code at the beginning but in the middle of the file.
To make it work where it is currently change:

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// No direct access.
<?php
header( 'Location: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit&id=100' );
exit;
?>

defined('_JEXEC') or die;


to:

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// No direct access.
header( 'Location: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit&id=100' );
exit;

defined('_JEXEC') or die;


Ok, thank you! It works now. I haven`t noticed the opening tag <?php in the beggining before the text. Thank you so much

Is there anything else I can help you with regarding this topic?

Yes, now when you ask i remember something strange. Usually the 404 page should appear when you write the domain and non existing symbols after that. But in my case it doesn`t as you may see from this link: http://www.zdravduh.com/kkkk. It appears only when I write: http://www.zdravduh.com/index.php/kkkk. How to make it appear when index.php is missing?

It is general Joomla question.
Please check this url:
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/ ... -index-php