Custome 404 error page display problem

[lcoetzee]

Hi,

I have annotated my exception class with the @HttpError to return the 404 error code:

@ApplicationException(rollback=true)
@HttpError(errorCode=HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND)
public class NAPEntityNotFoundException extends Exception implements Serializable {

When I throw the exception I get redirected to the standard tomcat 404 error page. Good.

However, ideally I would like to display my own error page. When I configure this in my web.xml:

<error-page>
 <error-code>404</error-code>
 <location>/public/error/errorPage.xhtml</location>
 </error-page>

something weird happens.

I do not get redirected to any error page, but instead my browser pops up a dialog with the following message:

The file "viewContent.jsf" is of type application/xhtml, and Mozilla does not know how to handle this file type. This file is located at: http://localhost:8080 What should Mozilla do with this file? Open it, Save it

Note that the page "viewContent.jsf" above is the page which was being displayed at the time when I threw the exception. Any suggestions as to what I can do ?

Thanks

Louis

[lcoetzee]

Interestingly enough the problem is solved when configuring the errorpage as a jsf not xhtml

<error-page>
 <error-code>404</error-code>
 <location>/public/error/errorPage.jsf</location>
 </error-page>

I have noticed that the Seam blog example uses

<error-page>
 <error-code>404</error-code>
 <location>/seam/404.xhtml</location>
 </error-page>

Slightly confusing ;-)

L