Use the "ErrorDocument" switch in your httpd.conf file. Just add something like this:
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.katahdinsoftware.com/ or you can add plain text to be displayed or any variation of URL that you'd like. Mike On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 02:38 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:30, Jason Hildebrand wrote: >> I'm running Webware on a production server to which I am still making >> software updates. Sometimes it's necessary for me to stop the >> application server for a few minutes during the update, because I >> can't >> allow any persistent data to change. >> >> I'm using Apache with mod_webkit, and I'd like to avoid the user >> seeing >> the 'Internal Server Error' (500) which occurs when mod_webkit can't >> contact the application server. If the app server is down, I'd prefer >> to redirect to a static page which looks like the rest of the website, >> which says the effect of 'Down for maintenance; try again in a few >> minutes'. >> >> Has anyone done something like this before? Can this be done from the >> Apache config (perhaps by detecting error 500?), or do I have to dig >> into the mod_webkit source? > > Well, you could add a quick > RewriteEngine On > RewriteRule .* /var/www/down-for-maintenance.html > And reload Apache. > > Ian > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
