thanks. that is what I am looking for. James
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alon Belman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>; "James Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:41 PM Subject: Re: tomcat exception handling you want to define an error page in your web.xml. try adding something like the following: <error-page> <error-code>500</error-code> <location>/yourErrorPage.html</location> </error-page> On 9/23/05, James Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > thanks for the reply. > > I tried that but it does not seem to make any difference. > > what version of tomcat are you using? > > James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jilles van Gurp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:33 PM > Subject: Re: tomcat exception handling > > > > swallowoutput=true in your context should help > > > > Jilles > > > > James Cowan wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > How do I suppress the stack trace from exception handling globally ( > i.e. > not > > > using an errorPage directive)? > > > > > > I have tried setting the Verbosity of the Logger elements in the > server.xml > > > (for Tomcat 5.0.28) to 0 but this does not seem to stop stack trace. > > > > > > A simple jsp like this: > > > > > > <% > > > if (true) > > > throw new Exception("Some exception"); > > > %> > > > > > > produces this output: > > > exception > > > > > > javax.servlet.ServletException: Some exception > > > > > > > org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException > (PageContextI > > > mpl.java:825) > > > > org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException > (PageContextImp > > > l.java:758) > > > org.apache.jsp.e_jsp._jspService(e_jsp.java:53) > > > org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94) > > > javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) > > > > > > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java > :3 > > > 24) > > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java > :292) > > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236) > > > javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) > > > > > > I just want the HTTP 500 error displayed and no more information. > > > > > > James Cowan > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]