[thelist] test - ignore and a tip

martin burns martin at members.evolt.org
Sun Dec 17 17:50:29 CST 2000


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<tip type="error pages in Apache">
Why bother having separate error pages for each type of
error? Why not have your .htaccess doing something like:

ErrorDocument 400 /resources/error.shtml?400
ErrorDocument 401 /resources/error.shtml?401
ErrorDocument 403 /resources/error.shtml?403
ErrorDocument 404 /resources/error.shtml?404
ErrorDocument 500 /resources/error.shtml?500

and have error.shtml do some basic XSSI switching
to include the appropriate error message.

</tip>
<tip type="SSI fun with error documents in Apache">
One thing to watch, though, is if you have your
404 going to (say) www.yourdomain.com/resources/error.shtml?404
any SSIs in error.shtml are going to have environmental variables
set as per /resources/error.shtml, not the URL which the user
requested in the first place.

Thus doing something like
The page <!--#echo var="$DOCUMENT_URI"> doesn't exist
in the include which you bring into error.shtml may not work...
</tip>

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