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

[Chintan Kachhi <chintankachhi@xxxxxxxxx>]

[To Dan Poirier] I need to go to Websphere to hit the service and that requires the port 9080, hence I do that... but this should work and return the error message I think since the http server is linked to the Websphere through the plugin...  someone correct me if I am wrong.

As for changing the port plugin-cfg.xml to something not listening, I am not sure how to do that. Do you change something in the plugin.xml file, or within the Websphere admin console?

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Dan Poirier <poirier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Chintan Kachhi <chintankachhi@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I am having a issue, where the following happens: I am using IBM http server as
> my front end server, and WebSphere as my application server.
>
> I am trying to configure httpserver config file (httpd.conf) to display a
> certain page when my application
> server is down - but that is not working. ( that is I have my http server
> running, but the actual app server is stopped). I tried setting the
> errorDocument directive within the httpd.conf file of the HTTP server to
> display some custom string text in case of 500, 501, 502 or 503 errors, but it
> does not show any of the error messages. Instead, when I try to hit a service
> on the app server, it shows something as follows:
>
>
> Failed to Connect         
>
> Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:9080.  
>        
>

Port 9080 is usually WebSphere.  It sounds like you're going straight to
WebSphere and not through IHS, so IHS isn't even involved.  Try going to
http://localhost instead of http://localhost:9080


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Dan Poirier <poirier@xxxxxxxxx>

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