In part you are correct. You can try doing this: in web.xml
<error-page> <error-code> 404 </error-code> <location>/pages/error.jsp</location> </error-page> This goes after <servlet-mapping> and before any <taglib> declarations. The 404 can be replaced with any html error code you wish (as far as I know). I'm getting an NPE error right now and the error code is 500. So you can probably put that up. I don't use it (currently) because I like to see the stack traces live instead of using log files to debug, but when I release the site I put up real error pages and use web.xml. I'm using Jboss 4.0.1sp1, so I'm making my comments on that premise, so I can't guarentee any of my hasty generalizations will work on your web container. Hope this helps, Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]