I am trying to redirect to my custom error page when a particular url is hit... I am trying to follow as per this link:
http://fixunix.com/websphere/373084-use-custom-404-page-when-running-but-application-isstopped.html where one of the relevant responses for me is what Eric had posted: I don't believe you'll find a solution to this that has acceptable performance. There may be a way to do this with mod_rewrite and the LA (lookahead) flag, but that effectively doubles the load of the traffic going to WAS. You might look at having your administrators touch a magic file in IHS during the redeploy of the app, and teaching mod_rewrite to return a custom error page when that file exists. This doc will partially help: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/httpse...alter_uri.html RewriteCond /opt/IHS/conf/applicationdown.txt -f RewriteRule ^/app1/foo /errormessage.html [PT] I am trying the last two lines where I do a rewrite condition and the rewrite rule. But seems like this is not working either... is there a particular place where the applicationdown.txt and errormessage.html files need to be? My document root is C:/WebSphere/IBMHTTPServer/htdocs/en_US I tried putting the applicationdown.txt file under directly under my document root directory, but it does not work. I also tried putting the applicationdown.txt in my IHS/conf directory as shown in the example. For my rewrite rule, i put: RewriteRule ^/app1 /errormessage.html where errormessage.html was put under my document root directory. But this still does not work. Am I using the right directory structure to run this module?
