1 Reply Latest reply on Mar 28, 2007 2:10 PM by Antoine Herzog

    Handle HTTP errors or Exceptions gracefully

    Anette Engel Newbie
    Anette Engel Mar 27, 2007 7:06 AM

      I quite like to configure my portal or my portlets to go to an error page if an exception or Http Error is thrown. To so I have added the usual error page elements to the web.xml of my portlet as well as to the web.xml file in jboss-portal.sar/portal-server.war/WEB-INF:

      <error-page>
 <error-code>500</error-code>
 <location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
 :
 :
<error-page>
 <exception-type>javax.portlet.PortletException</exception-type>
 <location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>


      There is a error.jsp in the root of my portlet as well as in jboss-portal.sar/portal-server.war diretory. Despite this the generic "HTTP Status 500" error page generated by Tomcat is displayed when my portlet throws a PortletException.

      Does anyone know how to configure the portal or a portlet to display a specified error page if a HTTP error or Exception is thrown.

      Thanks,

      Anette

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        • 1. Re: Handle HTTP errors or Exceptions gracefully
          Antoine Herzog Master
          Antoine Herzog Mar 28, 2007 2:10 PM (in response to Anette Engel)

          I am planning to do the same soon, but have not yet looked at this.

          May be look at the tomcat root server :
          \deploy\jbossweb-tomcat55.sar\ROOT.war

          I think it's this one that handle the request first, and when a resource is not found (ie: before the portal servlet that are in the portal-server.war)

          It is configured as a JMX service
          Looking at JBoss AS forum and wiki may help... probably yet answered there...

          (please consider putting the answer in this forum, when you have it... thanks)