displaying "friendly" error page

[Michael Weissenbacher <MW...@net4you.net>]

i have the following problem: in some situatuations i need to shutdown
tomcat to have something reloaded (it can have multiple reasons, but mostly
i'm changing some library in the classpath).
the problem that i now have is: while the server goes down and then up again
(it can take several minutes with my application) the user only sees the
"internal server error" page when requesting servlets.
but i would like to display some friendly page like "Our Server is down for
maintainance and will be up again in a few minutes".
has anyone done this, it there a simple way?

i'm running tomcat 3.2.3 with mod_jk, ajp12, apache 1.3.14 on a suse linux
7.1 box

thank you for any suggestions

michael weissenbacher

Re: displaying "friendly" error page

[Dmitri Colebatch <di...@bigpond.net.au>]

yep - you would do this in apache.  what is happening behind the scenes is
that apache is unable to contact tomcat and hence has a bit of a dummy
spit.  open up httpd.conf and find the ErrorDocument 500 line (generally
there but commented) and point it at your friendly page.

cheesr
dim

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Michael Weissenbacher wrote:

> i have the following problem: in some situatuations i need to shutdown
> tomcat to have something reloaded (it can have multiple reasons, but mostly
> i'm changing some library in the classpath).
> the problem that i now have is: while the server goes down and then up again
> (it can take several minutes with my application) the user only sees the
> "internal server error" page when requesting servlets.
> but i would like to display some friendly page like "Our Server is down for
> maintainance and will be up again in a few minutes".
> has anyone done this, it there a simple way?
> 
> i'm running tomcat 3.2.3 with mod_jk, ajp12, apache 1.3.14 on a suse linux
> 7.1 box
> 
> thank you for any suggestions
> 
> michael weissenbacher
> 
>