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Cloudflare Error Page
Cloudflare Error Page lets website teams replace default Cloudflare error responses with custom visitor-facing pages and rules for HTTP errors, origin failures, and security challenges.
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›What is Cloudflare Error Page?
Cloudflare Custom Errors replaces default Cloudflare error pages with custom HTML content for specific errors or security challenges. Custom Error Rules can select when the response is served and what content visitors receive. The feature requires the domain or subdomain's DNS records to be proxied through Cloudflare.
›What are the pros and cons of Cloudflare Error Page?
Strengths
Supports custom content for errors from both Cloudflare and origin infrastructure
Custom Error Rules can control the conditions and exact response content
Handles security challenges and blocked-request scenarios
Supports machine-readable formats through content negotiation
Trade-offs
Requires DNS records for the domain or subdomain to be proxied through Cloudflare
Account-level error page configuration is limited to paid plans
Previewing or publishing can fail when WAF or IP access rules block Cloudflare's fetch request
Origin-generated 5xx responses are passed through and are not affected by Cloudflare-generated error response formatting
›What are Cloudflare Error Page’s key features?
Custom HTML error pages for specific Cloudflare error types
Custom Error Rules for HTTP status codes 400 and above
Custom responses for errors from origin servers, Cloudflare products, Workers, and security challenges
Zone-level and account-level error page configuration
Machine-readable error responses based on the request's Accept header
›What are the best use cases for Cloudflare Error Page?
Show branded guidance when a visitor encounters a Cloudflare-generated error
Return custom pages for blocked requests, rate limits, country blocks, or IP blocks
Provide structured JSON, problem+json, or Markdown error responses to clients
Apply different error content or conditions across domains and subdomains
›What is the pricing for Cloudflare Error Page?
Free Trial
›Who is Cloudflare Error Page best for?
developersUseful for configuring branded, conditional, and machine-readable error responses at the Cloudflare edge.
small teamA fit when the team's domains already use Cloudflare proxying and need clearer handling for blocked or failed requests.
enterprisePaid Cloudflare accounts can use account-level error page configuration across managed zones.
Not for
- Teams whose domains are not proxied through Cloudflare, because Custom Errors requires Cloudflare DNS proxying
- Teams that need to rewrite error responses generated directly by their origin server, because origin-generated 5xx responses are passed through
