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-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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-
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- <head>
- <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" />
-
- <title>Custom error responses</title>
- </head>
- <!-- Background white, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) -->
-
- <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF"
- vlink="#000080" alink="#FF0000">
- <!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
-
- <h1 align="center">Custom error responses</h1>
-
- <dl>
- <dt>Purpose</dt>
-
- <dd>
- Additional functionality. Allows webmasters to configure
- the response of Apache to some error or problem.
-
- <p>Customizable responses can be defined to be activated in
- the event of a server detected error or problem.</p>
-
- <p>e.g. if a script crashes and produces a "500 Server
- Error" response, then this response can be replaced with
- either some friendlier text or by a redirection to another
- URL (local or external).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Old behavior</dt>
-
- <dd>NCSA httpd 1.3 would return some boring old error/problem
- message which would often be meaningless to the user, and
- would provide no means of logging the symptoms which caused
- it.<br />
- </dd>
-
- <dt>New behavior</dt>
-
- <dd>
- The server can be asked to;
-
- <ol>
- <li>Display some other text, instead of the NCSA hard
- coded messages, or</li>
-
- <li>redirect to a local URL, or</li>
-
- <li>redirect to an external URL.</li>
- </ol>
-
- <p>Redirecting to another URL can be useful, but only if
- some information can be passed which can then be used to
- explain and/or log the error/problem more clearly.</p>
-
- <p>To achieve this, Apache will define new CGI-like
- environment variables, <em>e.g.</em></p>
-
- <blockquote>
- <code>REDIRECT_HTTP_ACCEPT=*/*, image/gif,
- image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg<br />
- REDIRECT_HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/1.1b2 (X11; I; HP-UX
- A.09.05 9000/712)<br />
- REDIRECT_PATH=.:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/etc<br />
- REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING=<br />
- REDIRECT_REMOTE_ADDR=121.345.78.123<br />
- REDIRECT_REMOTE_HOST=ooh.ahhh.com<br />
- REDIRECT_SERVER_NAME=crash.bang.edu<br />
- REDIRECT_SERVER_PORT=80<br />
- REDIRECT_SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/0.8.15<br />
- REDIRECT_URL=/cgi-bin/buggy.pl<br />
- </code>
- </blockquote>
-
- <p>note the <code>REDIRECT_</code> prefix.</p>
-
- <p>At least <code>REDIRECT_URL</code> and
- <code>REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING</code> will be passed to the
- new URL (assuming it's a cgi-script or a cgi-include). The
- other variables will exist only if they existed prior to
- the error/problem. <strong>None</strong> of these will be
- set if your ErrorDocument is an <em>external</em> redirect
- (<em>i.e.</em>, anything starting with a scheme name like
- <code>http:</code>, even if it refers to the same host as
- the server).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Configuration</dt>
-
- <dd>
- Use of "ErrorDocument" is enabled for .htaccess files when
- the <a href="mod/core.html#allowoverride">"FileInfo"
- override</a> is allowed.
-
- <p>Here are some examples...</p>
-
- <blockquote>
- <code>ErrorDocument 500 /cgi-bin/crash-recover<br />
- ErrorDocument 500 "Sorry, our script crashed. Oh
- dear<br />
- ErrorDocument 500 http://xxx/<br />
- ErrorDocument 404 /Lame_excuses/not_found.html<br />
- ErrorDocument 401
- /Subscription/how_to_subscribe.html</code>
- </blockquote>
-
- <p>The syntax is,</p>
-
- <p><code><a
- href="mod/core.html#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code>
- <3-digit-code> action</p>
-
- <p>where the action can be,</p>
-
- <ol>
- <li>Text to be displayed. Prefix the text with a quote
- ("). Whatever follows the quote is displayed. <em>Note:
- the (") prefix isn't displayed.</em></li>
-
- <li>An external URL to redirect to.</li>
-
- <li>A local URL to redirect to.</li>
- </ol>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- <hr />
-
- <h2>Custom error responses and redirects</h2>
-
- <dl>
- <dt>Purpose</dt>
-
- <dd>Apache's behavior to redirected URLs has been modified so
- that additional environment variables are available to a
- script/server-include.</dd>
-
- <dt>Old behavior</dt>
-
- <dd>Standard CGI vars were made available to a script which
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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!--
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+ --><title>Custom Error Responses - Apache HTTP Server</title><link href="./style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /><link href="./images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head><body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"><p class="menu"><a href="./mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="./mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="./faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="./glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="./sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p><p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</p><img alt="" src="./images/feather.gif" /></div><div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="./images/left.gif" /></a></div><div id="path"><a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/">Documentation</a> > <a href="./">Version 2.0</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Custom Error Responses</h1>
+ <p>Additional functionality allows webmasters to configure the response
+ of Apache to some error or problem.</p>
+
+ <p>Customizable responses can be defined to be activated in the event of
+ a server detected error or problem.</p>
+
+ <p>If a script crashes and produces a "500 Server Error" response,
+ then this response can be replaced with either some friendlier text or by
+ a redirection to another URL (local or external).</p>
+ </div><div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#behavior">Behavior</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#configuration">Configuration</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#custom">Custom Error Responses and Redirects</a></li></ul></div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="behavior" id="behavior">Behavior</a></h2>
+
+
+ <h3>Old Behavior</h3>
+
+
+ <p>NCSA httpd 1.3 would return some boring old error/problem message
+ which would often be meaningless to the user, and would provide no
+ means of logging the symptoms which caused it.</p>
+
+
+ <h3>New Behavior</h3>
+
+
+ <p>The server can be asked to:</p>
+
+ <ol>
+ <li>Display some other text, instead of the NCSA hard coded
+ messages, or</li>
+
+ <li>redirect to a local URL, or</li>
+
+ <li>redirect to an external URL.</li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <p>Redirecting to another URL can be useful, but only if some
+ information can be passed which can then be used to explain and/or log
+ the error/problem more clearly.</p>
+
+ <p>To achieve this, Apache will define new CGI-like environment
+ variables:</p>
+
+ <div class="example"><p><code>
+ REDIRECT_HTTP_ACCEPT=*/*, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap,
+ image/jpeg<br />
+ REDIRECT_HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/1.1b2 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05
+ 9000/712)<br />
+ REDIRECT_PATH=.:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/etc<br />
+ REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING=<br />
+ REDIRECT_REMOTE_ADDR=121.345.78.123<br />
+ REDIRECT_REMOTE_HOST=ooh.ahhh.com<br />
+ REDIRECT_SERVER_NAME=crash.bang.edu<br />
+ REDIRECT_SERVER_PORT=80<br />
+ REDIRECT_SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/0.8.15<br />
+ REDIRECT_URL=/cgi-bin/buggy.pl
+ </code></p></div>
+
+ <p>Note the <code>REDIRECT_</code> prefix.</p>
+
+ <p>At least <code>REDIRECT_URL</code> and
+ <code>REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING</code> will be passed to the
+ new URL (assuming it's a cgi-script or a cgi-include). The
+ other variables will exist only if they existed prior to
+ the error/problem. <strong>None</strong> of these will be
+ set if your <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code> is an
+ <em>external</em> redirect (anything starting with a
+ scheme name like <code>http:</code>, even if it refers to the same host
+ as the server).</p>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="configuration" id="configuration">Configuration</a></h2>
+
+
+ <p>Use of <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code> is enabled
+ for .htaccess files when the
+ <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> is set accordingly.</p>
+
+ <p>Here are some examples...</p>
+
+ <div class="example"><p><code>
+ ErrorDocument 500 /cgi-bin/crash-recover <br />
+ ErrorDocument 500 "Sorry, our script crashed. Oh dear" <br />
+ ErrorDocument 500 http://xxx/ <br />
+ ErrorDocument 404 /Lame_excuses/not_found.html <br />
+ ErrorDocument 401 /Subscription/how_to_subscribe.html
+ </code></p></div>
+
+ <p>The syntax is,</p>
+
+ <div class="example"><p><code>
+ ErrorDocument <3-digit-code> <action>
+ </code></p></div>
+
+ <p>where the action can be,</p>
+
+ <ol>
+ <li>Text to be displayed. Prefix the text with a quote
+ ("). Whatever follows the quote is displayed. <em>Note:
+ the (") prefix isn't displayed.</em></li>
+
+ <li>An external URL to redirect to.</li>
+
+ <li>A local URL to redirect to.</li>
+ </ol>
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="custom" id="custom">Custom Error Responses and Redirects</a></h2>
+
+
+ <p>Apache's behavior to redirected URLs has been modified so
+ that additional environment variables are available to a
+ script/server-include.</p>
+
+ <h3>Old behavior</h3>
+
+
+ <p>Standard CGI vars were made available to a script which
has been redirected to. No indication of where the
- redirection came from was provided.</dd>
-
- <dt>New behavior</dt>
-
- <dd>A new batch of environment variables will be initialized
+ redirection came from was provided.</p>
+
+
+ <h3>New behavior</h3>
+
+
+ <p>A new batch of environment variables will be initialized
for use by a script which has been redirected to. Each new
variable will have the prefix <code>REDIRECT_</code>.
<code>REDIRECT_</code> environment variables are created from
@@ -157,26 +136,24 @@
new variables, Apache will define <code>REDIRECT_URL</code>
and <code>REDIRECT_STATUS</code> to help the script trace its
origin. Both the original URL and the URL being redirected to
- can be logged in the access log.</dd>
- </dl>
-
- <p>If the ErrorDocument specifies a local redirect to a CGI
- script, the script should include a "<samp>Status:</samp>"
- header field in its output in order to ensure the propagation
- all the way back to the client of the error condition that
- caused it to be invoked. For instance, a Perl ErrorDocument
- script might include the following:</p>
-<pre>
- :
- print "Content-type: text/html\n";
- printf "Status: %s Condition Intercepted\n", $ENV{"REDIRECT_STATUS"};
- :
-</pre>
-
- <p>If the script is dedicated to handling a particular error
- condition, such as <samp>404 Not Found</samp>, it can
- use the specific code and error text instead.</p>
- <!--#include virtual="footer.html" -->
- </body>
-</html>
-
+ can be logged in the access log.</p>
+
+ <p>If the ErrorDocument specifies a local redirect to a CGI
+ script, the script should include a "<code>Status:</code>"
+ header field in its output in order to ensure the propagation
+ all the way back to the client of the error condition that
+ caused it to be invoked. For instance, a Perl ErrorDocument
+ script might include the following:</p>
+
+ <div class="example"><p><code>
+ ... <br />
+ print "Content-type: text/html\n"; <br />
+ printf "Status: %s Condition Intercepted\n", $ENV{"REDIRECT_STATUS"}; <br />
+ ...
+ </code></p></div>
+
+ <p>If the script is dedicated to handling a particular error
+ condition, such as <code>404�Not�Found</code>, it can
+ use the specific code and error text instead.</p>
+
+ </div></div><div id="footer"><p class="apache">Maintained by the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/">Apache HTTP Server Documentation Project</a></p><p class="menu"><a href="./mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="./mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="./faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="./glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="./sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p></div></body></html>
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1.1 httpd-2.0/docs/manual/custom-error.xml
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<!DOCTYPE manualpage SYSTEM "./style/manualpage.dtd">
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="./style/manual.en.xsl"?>
<manualpage>
<relativepath href="."/>
<title>Custom Error Responses</title>
<summary>
<p>Additional functionality allows webmasters to configure the response
of Apache to some error or problem.</p>
<p>Customizable responses can be defined to be activated in the event of
a server detected error or problem.</p>
<p>If a script crashes and produces a "500 Server Error" response,
then this response can be replaced with either some friendlier text or by
a redirection to another URL (local or external).</p>
</summary>
<section id="behavior">
<title>Behavior</title>
<section>
<title>Old Behavior</title>
<p>NCSA httpd 1.3 would return some boring old error/problem message
which would often be meaningless to the user, and would provide no
means of logging the symptoms which caused it.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>New Behavior</title>
<p>The server can be asked to:</p>
<ol>
<li>Display some other text, instead of the NCSA hard coded
messages, or</li>
<li>redirect to a local URL, or</li>
<li>redirect to an external URL.</li>
</ol>
<p>Redirecting to another URL can be useful, but only if some
information can be passed which can then be used to explain and/or log
the error/problem more clearly.</p>
<p>To achieve this, Apache will define new CGI-like environment
variables:</p>
<example>
REDIRECT_HTTP_ACCEPT=*/*, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap,
image/jpeg<br />
REDIRECT_HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/1.1b2 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05
9000/712)<br />
REDIRECT_PATH=.:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/etc<br />
REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING=<br />
REDIRECT_REMOTE_ADDR=121.345.78.123<br />
REDIRECT_REMOTE_HOST=ooh.ahhh.com<br />
REDIRECT_SERVER_NAME=crash.bang.edu<br />
REDIRECT_SERVER_PORT=80<br />
REDIRECT_SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/0.8.15<br />
REDIRECT_URL=/cgi-bin/buggy.pl
</example>
<p>Note the <code>REDIRECT_</code> prefix.</p>
<p>At least <code>REDIRECT_URL</code> and
<code>REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING</code> will be passed to the
new URL (assuming it's a cgi-script or a cgi-include). The
other variables will exist only if they existed prior to
the error/problem. <strong>None</strong> of these will be
set if your <directive module="core">ErrorDocument</directive> is an
<em>external</em> redirect (anything starting with a
scheme name like <code>http:</code>, even if it refers to the same host
as the server).</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="configuration">
<title>Configuration</title>
<p>Use of <directive module="core">ErrorDocument</directive> is enabled
for .htaccess files when the
<directive module="core">AllowOverride</directive> is set accordingly.</p>
<p>Here are some examples...</p>
<example>
ErrorDocument 500 /cgi-bin/crash-recover <br />
ErrorDocument 500 "Sorry, our script crashed. Oh dear" <br />
ErrorDocument 500 http://xxx/ <br />
ErrorDocument 404 /Lame_excuses/not_found.html <br />
ErrorDocument 401 /Subscription/how_to_subscribe.html
</example>
<p>The syntax is,</p>
<example>
ErrorDocument <3-digit-code> <action>
</example>
<p>where the action can be,</p>
<ol>
<li>Text to be displayed. Prefix the text with a quote
("). Whatever follows the quote is displayed. <em>Note:
the (") prefix isn't displayed.</em></li>
<li>An external URL to redirect to.</li>
<li>A local URL to redirect to.</li>
</ol>
</section>
<section id="custom">
<title>Custom Error Responses and Redirects</title>
<p>Apache's behavior to redirected URLs has been modified so
that additional environment variables are available to a
script/server-include.</p>
<section>
<title>Old behavior</title>
<p>Standard CGI vars were made available to a script which
has been redirected to. No indication of where the
redirection came from was provided.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>New behavior</title>
<p>A new batch of environment variables will be initialized
for use by a script which has been redirected to. Each new
variable will have the prefix <code>REDIRECT_</code>.
<code>REDIRECT_</code> environment variables are created from
the CGI environment variables which existed prior to the
redirect, they are renamed with a <code>REDIRECT_</code>
prefix, <em>i.e.</em>, <code>HTTP_USER_AGENT</code> becomes
<code>REDIRECT_HTTP_USER_AGENT</code>. In addition to these
new variables, Apache will define <code>REDIRECT_URL</code>
and <code>REDIRECT_STATUS</code> to help the script trace its
origin. Both the original URL and the URL being redirected to
can be logged in the access log.</p>
<p>If the ErrorDocument specifies a local redirect to a CGI
script, the script should include a "<code>Status:</code>"
header field in its output in order to ensure the propagation
all the way back to the client of the error condition that
caused it to be invoked. For instance, a Perl ErrorDocument
script might include the following:</p>
<example>
... <br />
print "Content-type: text/html\n"; <br />
printf "Status: %s Condition Intercepted\n", $ENV{"REDIRECT_STATUS"}; <br />
...
</example>
<p>If the script is dedicated to handling a particular error
condition, such as <code>404 Not Found</code>, it can
use the specific code and error text instead.</p>
</section>
</section>
</manualpage>