Custom page : I must have missed something

[Gus]

Hi,

I tried the custom page feature.

I used "add new custom template" and got a new custom template - let's call it "newcust.html" - generated in \mysite\themes\mytheme\.
But what to do with it ? I guessed that it should be called from a copy of \mysite\page.php with the same name. So I created \mysite\newcust.php".
But you cannot even call newcust.php (from a link on a page), the system tells you that it does not exist (access rights violation, I suppose).
So I fumbled through various files and (I do not even remember where) found where all these rights are hidden. But this works for newcust.PHP. When newcust.PHP uses newcust.HTML I get a 403 error.

What I try to achieve is the following :

I want to put a link on myfooter that will lead the visitor to a custom page. I want this page use my IndexU template (with the theme header and footer). As of today, I just had to write a plain non-IndexU html page myself. It works fine, but this is sloppy development. So I'd like this custom page to be integrated in my IndexU template.

How to do this ?

Thanks in advance for the help
Gus

[Bruceper]

if your custom page was created with the name newcust then the way you would view it would be http://yoururl.ext/page.php?id=pagename

[Gus]

Thanks, Bruce, for the help. Everything (at least the code) is in order now !

gus