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I'm trying to add a custom page, by using admin/config/system/site-information

When I enter the field, as follows:

Default 404 (not found) page

http://mysite.com/errors/404.html

It shows the following error:

The path 'errors/404.html' is either invalid or you do not have access to it.

Though when I enter in my browser: http://mysite.com/errors/404.html it opens just fine.

So, what's wrong with Drupal, why it doesn't see it?

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When you go to admin/config/system/site-information to enter the path in the field Default 404 (not found) page, you don't have to add .html just write errors/404 and it will work.

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  • well, it's the same, guess it only handles the very pages created in drupal itself
    – Anonymous
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 8:11
  • When you said custom page, how did you create this page? (Did you use a content type like basic page or anything else? If you want to use a path in drupal, he has to know it before)
    – Epok
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 8:20
  • Well it was just one html page I wanted to display. Now I understand, I had to add it, so I block instead. And I want only to display this block, I tried block/4 but it doesn't work either. Is there any way to assign a node for a block?
    – Anonymous
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 8:26
  • You can't assign a block in a path (i think, i'm not a Drupal expert) But you can put a block in a page which already exist (and so who has a path)
    – Epok
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 8:30
  • Does it mean I need to create a new content type, then add one and only entry to that type just to display a single page as a node?
    – Anonymous
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 8:32
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I suppose if properly, you have directory "errors" where have a file 404.html. In Drupal one of the right way to do this is like next: create node Page content type (may by only enter title, see and remember node id after saving), copy node.tpl.php from modules/node folder in your current theme folder, rename this copy to node--NID.tpl.php where NID is id of previosly saved node, then edit this template as you want, then add path alias to this node as "errors/404.html"

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  • Thanks, I think this is exactly what I need. I'll give it a try right now.
    – Anonymous
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 8:34
  • Looks like it was a too simple thing to do, I din't even need to alter the templates, but thanks for advice though.
    – Anonymous
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 8:50

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