Re: Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

[Chintan Kachhi <chintankachhi@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 that I want. But I was thinking if I could do it using the Apache rewrite module instead. My ultimate objective is to be able to write a rewrite module that would be able to be loaded by someone. And that module would do all of the above... that is be able to redirect a failing request ( based on the response as above) to a custom error page. 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.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM, André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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 down: HTTP/1.1 404 Not
Found

Is there a way with apache rewrite module to redirect the page based on this
response? So for example, something as follows: If the response code is 404,
then redirect to custommessage.html, where I put my custom error message in
custommessage.html?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#errordocument

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