Thanks for all your help. I ended up using the RewriteRule recommended below by Rich Bowen along with an ErrorDocument (as per Nick Kew) to provide more details about the error.
300/400 series would have been more useful but client requirements don't always make sense. However, they are happy that a very simple config exercise in Apache was able to solve the problem. ----- Original Message ---- From: Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> To: users@httpd.apache.org Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 6:25:39 PM Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] mod_rewrite/rewriterule - forcing a HTTP 500 code on all access attempt? On Dec 4, 2009, at 20:25 , Frank Z wrote: > is there a way via RewriteRule to force all access to a certain URL to return > with a HTTP 500 > > e.g. i have a number 3 applications that are or will be obsoleted and is > expected to return a 500 to all callers who try to access it. > > so when someone tries to access a deprecated URL such as > http://myserver/myApp1 I would like to send back a 500 and preferably some > textual information (nice to have). > > Will it be possible to do this via mod_rewrite? You can use the R flag to return any valid HTTP status RewriteRule ^/myApp1 - [R=500] but, as Nick says, returning a 500 for it seems to be a lot less useful than a 404 or a 410 and an ErrorDocument. -- Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
