What you might find the easiest is to use apache's
ErrorDocument 500 <url>
command very useful.
If tomcat is down apache generates a 500 error.
Apache can then intercept that and use a page ( static HTML/CGI/Other
URL)
to generate a 'we've gone walkies for a bit - back soon' type message
David
PS I know this - it bit me in the ass.
Scott Jones wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am setting up a set of boxes as follows. There are two machines
> running Apache 1.3.19 and then there are three machines running tomcat
> 3.2.3. I have a worker linking each of the apache machines to each
> tomcat server (for a total of 6 tomcat instances).
>
> What I'm wondering is say for some awful reason that all three of my
> tomcat servers are down. Is there any way that I can have mod_jk link
> to something else that might just say "we're down right now, please
> check back soon" or something like that? Does the lb worker type have
> any kind of mechanism for this?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
