Re: standard error page per virtual host

Hallo Juergen,


Juergen Daubert <[email protected]> schrieb:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:04:27PM +0200, Lars T=C3=A4uber wrote:
> > Hi there!
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> Hello,
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> > I'm new to mathopd but I thought it could serve all my wishes.
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> > The question is: Does mathopd support setting standard error pages?
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> Yes, see http://www.mathopd.org/wiki?ErrorFile

thanks alot. That is exactly what i was looking for.

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> > I have a small energy saving webserver that still runs when all other=
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> > webservers are shut down due to power out. This server is backuped by=
 an ups.
> > It will be configured to take over the ip addresses of the shut down=20
> > webservers and should serve a single static webpage for each virtual =
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> > configuration.
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> > The question is can mathopd redirect all requests to a single html fi=
le?
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> > e.g.
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> > http://abc.domain.org/xyz/file.html=20
> > should not generate a 404 error page but reply the standard file:
> > /srv/www/abc.domain.org/index.html
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> Setup virtual hosts and use the Error404File directive within a Control
> block:
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>  Virtual {
>      Control {=20
>          Host abc.domain.org
>          Alias /
>          Location /srv/www/abc.domain.org/index.html
>          Error404File /srv/www/abc.domain.org/index.html
>      }
>  }

Thanks for this too. Is shortens my reading time significantly.


> Unfortunately you have to do that for every host, because Error404File
> cannot expand the * wildcard like Location does, see the Location
> wiki-page to see what I mean: http://www.mathopd.org/wiki?Location

This is not a problem, because every domain uses a different file.

best regards
Lars

> One possibility to solve this might be to use a CGI script insatead of=20
> a static page for Error404File that reads the REQUEST_URI environment=20
> variables and redirects the user to the right error-page.=20
> See http://www.mathopd.org/wiki?CGI/EnvironmentVariables
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> HTH and regards
> Juergen
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> Juergen Daubert  |  mailto:[email protected] =20


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