Custom HTTP Status 500 Error Response

[rbottoms]

Where would I set up a custom HTTP Status 500 status error response page(s). I want to deploy/remove applications as needed. Users should then receive a special page or be redirected if the app is missing.


Thanks,
r.b.

[adrian.brock]

Here is one solution.

1) Create a "root" deployment.
There already is one in catalina/webapps/ROOT

2) Add the error page
In that folder create error.html

3) in WEB-INF/web-xml add the line
<error-page><error-code>404</error-code>/error.html</error-page>
Choose error codes to suite. With the root context present you will now get 404 instead of 500 for
missing deployments.

4) Deployment
In the folder
jar cf .war *
this is a trick (no prefix means it is deployed as "/")
Copy .war into jboss/deploy
You should now have the jakarta example page and a 404
error page.

NOTE: If you deploy something else e.g.
tomcat-test.ear it will not use the error page,
it has its own web.xml

Regards,
Adrian