Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-10 Thread Chintan Kachhi
Does that mean there is no way to do this? Maybe using rewrite module which looks for the response and redirects it to a custom error page based on the response? I think I came across a post where you mentioned something about using modules look ahead feature. Is that possible? On Fri, Jul 10, 2

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-10 Thread Eric Covener
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Chintan Kachhi wrote: > Thanks for the response... I looked through my httpd.conf file and found > that the WebSpherePluginConfig was pointing to the wrong plugin directory ( > the person who had originally installed WAS had forgotten to update the file > to point

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-10 Thread Chintan Kachhi
Thanks for the response... I looked through my httpd.conf file and found that the WebSpherePluginConfig was pointing to the wrong plugin directory ( the person who had originally installed WAS had forgotten to update the file to point it to the right directory). I regenerated and propagated the plu

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-09 Thread Eric Covener
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Chintan Kachhi wrote: > [To Dan Poirier] I need to go to Websphere to hit the service and that > requires the port 9080, hence I do that... but this should work and return > the error message I think since the http server is linked to the Websphere > through the plug

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-09 Thread Chintan Kachhi
[To Dan Poirier] I need to go to Websphere to hit the service and that requires the port 9080, hence I do that... but this should work and return the error message I think since the http server is linked to the Websphere through the plugin... someone correct me if I am wrong. As for changing the

[us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-09 Thread Dan Poirier
Chintan Kachhi writes: > I am having a issue, where the following happens: I am using IBM http server > as > my front end server, and WebSphere as my application server. > > I am trying to configure httpserver config file (httpd.conf) to display a > certain page when my application > server is d

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-09 Thread Eric Covener
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Chintan Kachhi wrote: > Ok.. here's the thing: > > I am having a issue, where the following happens: I am using IBM http server > as my front end server, and WebSphere as my application server. > > I am trying to configure httpserver config file (httpd.conf) to disp

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-09 Thread Chintan Kachhi
Ok.. here's the thing: I am having a issue, where the following happens: I am using IBM http server as my front end server, and WebSphere as my application server. I am trying to configure httpserver config file (httpd.conf) to display a certain page when my application server is down - but that

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-06 Thread Eric Covener
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Chintan Kachhi wrote: > All the person would > then have to do is to load the module, which would have the rewrite engine > turned on.. and boom, it would work. Why would someone ever use the module if ErrorDocument is there? -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com ---

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-06 Thread Chintan Kachhi
Thanks for the link...I have looked through it before, and I just tried what it says, and it works ( I can just put my custom message within the httpd.conf file against the ErrorDocument 404 directive, and it will display this message when the page cannot be found.).That's exactly the functionality

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-06 Thread André Warnier
Chintan Kachhi wrote: 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 dow

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-06 Thread Eric Covener
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Chintan Kachhi wrote: > 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 foll

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-06 Thread Chintan Kachhi
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 Foun

[us...@httpd] Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

2009-07-06 Thread hugh williams
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