[thelist] Apache: Testing error pages

[Liam Delahunty]

on 17/02/2004 22:34 Frank wrote:
> 
> I've just finished setting up a bunch of error pages using .htaccess. I 
> can easily test a 404. How does one go about verifying that the 401, 
> 403, 500 and 503's work. I'm sure there's got to be a better way then 
> actually breaking something, but if there's not, how do I go about this 
> on my local machine?

If you have php you can force the headers:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

Description
void header ( string string [, bool replace [, int http_response_code]])

The second optional http_response_code force the HTTP response code to
the specified value. (This parameter is available in PHP 4.3.0 and higher.)

> By the way, has anyone noticed? Error pages are FUN!
> 
Only when they're intentional.

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