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Easy to use, no issues installing or configuring. Support has been responsive to requests for additional help / features.

Documentation needs a bit of work, but apart from that it worked for 404 errors however my main issue was with 403 as I wanted to improve the standard Joomla message.

Initially the extension didn't work but I contacted Aaron and he had a fix out to me in less than an hour which I understand will now form part of an upgrade.

Well worth $19

This extension is not working for me. I watched the video read the minimum documentation (the FAQ section) but I cannot get the error page to appear within my yootheme template. Yootheme provides a better looking error page anyways!

All I get is the text I specified in the Qlue custom page but the template is not assigned. The extension owner in previous reviews claims that the documentation tells you how to do it but I haven't seen that notes anywhere. My website has SEF enabled and the template style is assigned to All.

It seems that I have to get the commercial version in order to get the non-commercial version to work!

You have to modify the .htacces file, it is the only difficulty I see. Except that, realy nice and useful component!

This is a tricky one. Qlue seem to be the only developers that make a Custom 404 product beyond 1.5 and the component does the job. However, the documentation is very poor and it took me a while to figure out how to get it working.

You create an error page from within the component, then you create a menu item and link the menu to the error page from within the component (rather than say an article as you normally would). Don't publish the menu on any of your pages and set the menu in the rhs prefs for bots not to scan etc (you son't want Google crawling it). This seems to then publish whatever you have put in error page you created within the component into the main body field on your page.

I'm assuming this is how it works with the non commercial version as well, I upgraded to the commercial version in the hope that I would get some customer support (Qlue do not offer any support for the free version).

With a comprehensive how-to doc, this would be an outstanding product.

A wonderful little extension. Quick & easy to setup and it does what it's supposed to do. I had some questions which the developer answered extremely quickly. Highly recommended!

I've manually set up error pages for a Joomla site before so I figured I would do the same again. After wasting several hours making a static HTML page etc, I still didn't have a working solution. So figured I would see what was available in the way of extensions.

Found this little gem, a little money and a little time and working Custom Error pages. Should have used this right from the start.

The tracking of bad URL's is a great feature as well.

Great little component. Bought the pro version ... well worth the $19 - I recommend to other developers and site owners.

Best of all - the support was the fastest I have ever encountered by any component provider.

Thanks - keep up the good work.

Long ago I was looking for an extension to do this function without complications
Qlue is a quick and simple solution to customizing pages 404. I recommend it ..!

Exactly what I was looking for! Does a great job! Considering getting the pro version soon.

I installed the free version on my 1.5.23 site, switched to SEF URLS (as required), created a simple custom page, and it works perfectly. Thanks for the great plugin! I'll be upgrading to the Pro version because I need custom 403 error pages also.

I installed Custom 404 and had an issue with some redirects. Contacted tech support and Aaron was on it within hours. Turned out to be a hosting issue. The product works exactly as I hoped and support was excellent. Very professional.

The component installed very easily and with no trouble. It does exactly what it says. Both on Joomla! 1.5 and 1.6 :-)

Wow, that was easy :). I installed the component on my J! 1.7 site, created a custom 404 page and that's it. I tested some Google results which still referred to the former J! 1.0 version and some non-existing pages and all worked fine.

This works as expected and more. One thing not clear in the set up and documentation is the need to edit the htaccess file. Rapid response from tech support got us up and running.

Bonus result of this app is you can see the broken links and spot malicious attack attempts on your site.

The component is a very nice addition to the site, it handles the usual error pages, and it even helps you spot those pages that are missing from the site, by logging it all.

The only problem I can see is that I had to buy it on faith, it wouldn't display properly on my template, and I couldn't figure out why, reporting a bug to them didn't help, and they insist on not giving help out if you're not registered. So on a leap of faith I registered thinking that they must be able to solve this.
After registration I opened a ticket, which they responded to immediatey, and they solved my problem within two updates to it.

Just too bad that this leap of faith had to be taken, if they had helped me without registration, this would have been an 'excellent' rating.

Originally I was working in a normal Joomla 1.6.3 Website with the Normal Joomla Sample Data and I was using the Free Joomla Template YouGrids from YouJoomla.com.

Everything was looking fine until I reach my first 404 Error page which in fact I never reached because the extension totally broke my template creating a PHP and JavaScript Error.

At the beginning I was thinking that probably the problem was on my side so what I did is I installed another template from Joomla24.com.

This time I was using Jooroos Template and what I found was that the error was gone but for some reason the Extension was breaking my CSS Files.

By this time I was checking the Website Help Support from this Qlue Extension because I was lost. I did not found any helpful information in there for Joomla 1.6 and when I contacted the owners they answer me that they not provide help to this Extension unless you buy the pro Version and pay for that.

After that what I did, I totally installed Joomla 1.6.3 from scratch with the normal Sample Data to test the Extension in a normal Joomla 1.6 Website without using any other extension or personal Data. This time I found that the Extension was working only with one template.

If an extension does not even work with the Sample Data and the standard Joomla Templates plus there is no help for this extension in Joomla 1.6, this is a not to go extension.

This extension only worked with Beez5 - Default-Fruit Shop.

Regarding Beez2–Default and Beez2-Parks Site, it just kept breaking the CSS Files.

This is my Rating

Extension for Joomla 1.5 = 5 Starts
Extension for Joomla 1.6 = 1 Start
Support = There is no support for the FREE Version unless you buy the Pro Version.

Overall Rating 5+1 = 6
Which makes 6/2 = 3

I hope with this review the owners see after this problem because so far they offer me no help while contacting them and it seems like a promising extension.

Downloaded this free component and liked it so much I bought the Pro version to have different pages for 404 and 500 etc. Had some questions to ask and the support has been excellent. If you use the Joomla 1.6 Redirect component, you might need the Pro version like us as Joomla doesnt seem to like having 2 seperate routines (Qlue404 and Redirect) for handling errors, so the Pro version integrates a redirect handler to solve this but if you just need to handle 404 messages much nicer than the default Joomla messages, this component makes a great difference to your site

I spent the past two days trying to get a custom 404 page set up on my Joomla 1.6 website.

Then I tried this extension. I got things set up quickly and the only thing I couldn't figure out was how to get it to work for top level domain errors. Then I saw the handy (in bold face)instructions on the module page telling me exactly how to edit my .htaccess to get it to work and everything is now working perfectly.

My 404 error page is BEAUTIFUL and just looks like another nice template article. I am am so happy with this extension. :) :)

excelent component, it works witout a problem, the only problem is that i have installed it in joomla 1.6 and there isn´t any option to assign a template to 404 page, so when it is activated it show without any template showing an ugly template