Vicent Mas wrote: > David Crossley wrote : > > Vicent Mas wrote: > >> > >> I'm running a dispatcher site and I'd like to add a custom '404 error' > >> page to it. I've created a 404.xml file and put it in my xdocs > >> directory. The page shouldn't appear in the navigation menu so in my > >> site.xml I've added an entry without 'label' attribute: > >> > >> <error404 href="404.html" /> > >> > >> When I execute 'forrest run' the browser loads the URL > >> localhost:8888/404.html with no problem. However, when I run 'forrest' > >> and create a static site, the 404.html is not added to the site. Could > >> someone tell me how to add a hidden page to a static site, please? > >> I've googled the web with no luck. > > > > This page explains additional documents: > > http://forrest.apache.org/docs/howto/howto-asf-mirror.html > > > > You do not need all of what is explained there, but it > > does talk about "extra documents". > > thanks a lot for the info. Copying in my xdocs directory a pure html > file linked to no other document and customising cli.xconf for > processing it works.
You could instead have used a normal xdocs/404.xml source file. > The problem is that the generated file uses the > default pelt skin, but my website uses a customised pelt skin. I don't > know how to tell to cli.xconf that it should use my customised skin. > Is it doable? Sorry i don't know much about Dispatcher. The "cli.xconf" file is not involved regarding which skin. Perhaps using an xml source, as exlained above, will help. -David > As a dirty workaround I've come back to my initial idea (that > explained in my first post) and I've added an <a > href="site:error404"> </a> element to one of the regular pages of my > website. This invisible <a> element points to the hidden 404.html > page. So now the page is hidden but linked and running 'forrest' > generates it and adds it to the website. Not very elegant, but seems > to work. > > Vicent > -- > Share what you know, learn what you don't.
