Thanks for the replies... I guess that can't be done then, but after thinking a bit, I think that I am probably looking for the scenario where a service is down on a server, rather than the server itself. Let's assume that I get the following response when the service is down: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Is there a way with apache rewrite module to redirect the page based on this response? So for example, something as follows: If the response code is 404, then redirect to custommessage.html, where I put my custom error message in custommessage.html? On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:41 AM, hugh williams <hu...@soco.agilent.com>wrote: > Assuming your definition of "down" is "not responding", there is no way for > the server to respond with any kind of status code. Your customer's browsers > will generally give them a message of some kind that it couldn't contact the > server , however as the web administrator you have no visibility or control > over that in any way - if your server is down, you won't get the requests. > > You could also investigate a server farm, or clustering, or load balancing, > or any number of other ways to keep your web site visible, but they are all > more complicated; there is no way to reply "I'm dead, sorry" from a single > instance of Apache. > > hugh > > Chintan Kachhi wrote: > >> I have installed apache http server version 2.2 on my local machine. I am >> trying to write an apache rewrite module for the case when the apache server >> is down. When the server is down, I need to redirect to a custom error page. >> Does anyone know how can I apply this condition. So for starters, how can I >> know if the server is down? Is there a status code that is returned when the >> server is down while I am trying to hit it, and if so, how do I see that >> http status code that is returned? >> > > -- > Hugh Williams "There are two things to aim for in life; > hugh_willi...@agilent.com first, to get what you want; and after > that, > Agilent Technologies to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind > Santa Rosa 3US achieve the second." > (707)-577-4941 - Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
