Customizing error pages

Statamic will show its own error pages by default. For example, if a user were to go snooping where they shouldn’t, they may come across a 403 “Access Denied” page.

But what if you want to customize their appearance?

Error Templates

Statamic will look inside your theme’s templates/errors¹ folder for a template matching the response code. Page not found? That’s a 404 error, so a 404.html template will be loaded.

Error Layout

If you don’t want to use your default layout view (for example if you want to remove your nav, footer, etc) you can create a layouts/error.html file.

Setting Page Variables

The easiest way to set page variables on error templates would be by adding a block of YAML Front Matter to the top of the template.

---
title: 404 Ruh Roh
---

<h1>Page Not Found</h1>
<p>How about the <a href="/">home page</a> instead?</p>

Templating a 500 error

If you want to hide site visitors from seeing a potential 500 error on the front-end of your site, or show them a nicer error screen, then you can do so by creating a 500.blade.php file inside templates/errors. Note: You must have Debug mode turned off in order for this template to show.