Custom Error 403 Page PHP
In your .htaccess file you can specify what document you want as your default 403 error document.
ErrorDocument 403 /dir/file.htmlHere the directory is relative to the document root.
You can do something like the following:
#Rewrite URL'sRewriteEngine OnRewriteRule ^404/?$ errors/404.html [NC]# Enable Error Documents# (404,File Not Found) | (403,Forbidden) | (500,Internal Server Error)ErrorDocument 404 /404ErrorDocument 403 /404What this is doing is turning on the RewriteEngine so we can redirect url's nicely, then we are defining using the RewriteRule that /404/ or /404 should redirect to the custom 404 page. I then state that the ErrorDocument 404 and 403 should redirect to the 404 page. I do this for security so, a user does not know whether or not a file exists or if they just don't have access.
You can also add a custom inline error message via ErrorDocumnet in your .htaccess file as shown below:
ErrorDocument 403 '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head><p>Sorry, access to this page is forbidden.</p></body></html>'