RE: Error 500 in Internet Explorer

[ia...@blueyonder.co.uk]

Tomislav,

Error 500 is a Server error, for example if your page contains some bad Java in a scriptlet then the page won't compile and the server will return to you a server error. If you are seeing this it could be that the server is unable to compile your page or some such server related issue.

Are you getting this error when you try to hit a specific page that you have written? What exactly is the error? If you're not trying to access a page that you've written yourself, what page is it?

>From the error message you've given me, you're not getting much back from Internet Explorer to help you, I.E. hides error messages from users, but you want to look at the whole error message. In the advanced settings of Internet Explorer (Tools->Internet Options->Advanced) you should uncheck the Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages option. This will give you the full error that Tomcat is sending back to your browser and that will help you understand what is going on further. Hopefully this will tell you that you've misspelt something on your page and you can correct that and it will run fine. 

I hope this helps.

Ian


 



-----Original Message-----
From:	"Tomislav Miladinovic" <tm...@rogers.com>
Sent:	09 December 2002 17:42
To:	"Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject:	Re: Custom Error 500 Page Is Not Displayed

Hi Ian,

I am pretty new in this area so I can't help with your question but if you don't mind I have question for you. I recently installed Tomcat 4.1.12 and at startup I am getting error you are talking about.

The page cannot be displayed

HTTP 500 - Internal server error 
Internet Explorer 

So, I am not able to see Tomcat home page. If you can help or give me some clue/idea I will appreciate that.

Thanks,
Tomislav
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ia...@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: Tomcat Users List <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:04 AM
Subject: Custom Error 500 Page Is Not Displayed


Hi,

I have an installation of Tomcat 4.0.6 running on Win 2k Advanced Server, JDK 1.3.1_01 using IIS 5.0 as web server. I have set-up custom error pages in web.xml for both 404 and 500 to display helpful messages relevant to the application I've built. Any 404s are nicely displayed using the 404 error page defined in web.xml, but any 500s are not and I get the Tomcat default Internal Server error displayed, which isn't nice for my users.

I can't understand why the 404 works and 500 doesn't. Should the type of error that is coming back, e.g. an undefined variable or NullPointerException affect the error page I've chosen being displayed? If it's a NullPointerException that's a runtime error, but an undefined variable is a compile time error does this affect the redirection to the error page I've added?

I hope I'm not missing something basic because all examples, FAQs and other sites I've visited show that I'm doing the right thing and the fact that the 404 works further proves that. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Ian

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