On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:37 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Randeep wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm using tomcat apache-tomcat-6.0.37 >> I have a few web applications in webapps directory. >> >> portal >> sms >> crm >> >> I'm creating custom error pages. >> >> inside the webapplication "portal" under WEB-INF in web.xml I have given >> the following. >> >> <error-page> >> <error-code>400</error-code> >> <location>/lp/404.html</location> >> </error-page> >> <error-page> >> <error-code>404</error-code> >> <location>/lp/404.html</location> >> </error-page> >> <error-page> >> <error-code>500</error-code> >> <location>/lp/oops.html</location> >> </error-page> >> <error-page> >> <exception-type>java.lang.Throwable</exception-type> >> <location>/lp/oops.html</location> >> </error-page> >> >> And is working fine for the errors like >> >> domain.com/portal/sdgggdhsh >> >> But for other web applications, obviously it wont work. because I haven't >> configured in their web.xml files. >> >> Is there any way I can give common error pages? >> I can see that there is a web.xml file under conf directory. And I have >> given the settings in it. As below. >> >> <error-page> >> <error-code>400</error-code> >> <location>/404.html</location> >> </error-page> >> <error-page> >> <error-code>404</error-code> >> <location>/404.html</location> >> </error-page> >> <error-page> >> <error-code>500</error-code> >> <location>/oops.html</location> >> </error-page> >> <error-page> >> <exception-type>java.lang.Throwable</exception-type> >> <location>/oops.html</location> >> </error-page> >> >> Path I changed. starting from "/" and put the files in webapps directory. >> But it is not working. >> >> How can I do this? >> > > After a search in Google for "tomcat error-page location", I found this : > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3856145/empty-page- > instead-of-custom-tomcat-error-page > > which seems to say that Tomcat will always prefix the given <location> > with the > context path of the application where the error happens. > (For example, if you have <location>/oops.html</location, and if the > error happens in your app "/MyApp", then Tomcat will be looking for the > file ...webapps/MyApp/oops.html). > > So you cannot have one "generic" location for these error pages, and share > them for all applications. You have to add the error page to each deployed > application, separately. > > More precisely : you can *define* the error pages, as you have done, in > the generic conf/web.xml. But you still have to put a copy of the pages > themselves in each application separately. > I suppose that this obeys the general principle according to which each > application should be self-contained. > > Maybe in later Tomcat versions, there would be a way around this via > aliases or the likes, but it is probably still not recommended. > > > Note also, separately : the URL path "/" resolves to ".../webapps/ROOT/", > not to ".../webapps/". > > Thank you for the reply Andre. I'll add in all the webapps separately. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Randeep Mob: +919447831699[kerala] Mob: +919880050349[B'lore] I blog here: http://www.randeeppr.me/ Follow me Here: http://twitter.com/Randeeppr Poke me here! http://www.facebook.com/Randeeppr A little Linux Help http://www.linuxhelp.in/ Work profile: http://in.linkedin.com/in/randeeppr
