Re: How to check for availability of remote server or services?

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On Nov 26, 2007 6:41 PM, Robert Granvin <Robert.Granvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Not sure that's a particularly descriptive subject ...
>
> What we're facing here is a simple situation, but not so clear of a
> solution.  Perhaps this is easy and/or someone can offer me suggestions from
> past experience?
>
> Basically, our primary web server has a link to an important, well used, web
> site that resides on a physically different server (we have root access to
> both, by the way, so configuration changes are possible).
>
> When the remote web server is down/unavailable, we want the link to failover
> to a catch-all page that gives alternate access temporarily to important
> pieces.
>
> The second scenario is that the remote web server itself is up, but the
> application running (jboss in this case) is down or non-responsive.  We want
> to accomplish the same thing.
>
> My guess is that the first one is a lot easier than the second.  :-)  I'm
> not sure if #2 is as easy as creating a custom 404 page.

I guess what you need is a custom 500 page.

eg.
ErrorDocument 500 /falbacksite/index.html

Krist


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