Apache Custom Errors

mac_casey · 06-23-2006, 09:56 AM

Greetings,

I cant for the life of me figure this out. I see that in my SuSE 10 there is a error.conf. My first question is i placed a line for a custom error

ErrorDocument 401 www.somedomain.com/authfail.php

I then get an error that it cant find the document. Should it be a path to /srv/www/htdocs/somedomain/authfail.php?

Additionally how/where do i place a custom error if im hosting multiple namebased virtual hosts? i would what each domain to have their own.

Thanks

bulliver · 06-23-2006, 01:53 PM

The location of the error document is relative to the document root. For example, in my case I have:

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 /error_404.bot

and my docroot is /var/www/htdocs so I place "error_404.bot" in "/var/www/htdocs/".

In your case I think you want:

Code:

ErrorDocument 401 /somedomain/authfail.php

As for namebased virtual hosts, AFAIK you can just place the "ErrorDocument" directive inside each sites VirtualHost block ie:

Code:

NameVirtualHost *:80
 
<VirtualHost *:80>
 DocumentRoot /www/example1
 ServerName www.example1.com
 ErrorDocument 401 /authfail.php
 # Other directives here
 
</VirtualHost>
 
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /www/example2
ServerName www.example2.org
ErrorDocument 401 /authfail.php
 # Other directives here
 
</VirtualHost>

And for example1.org /www/example1/authfail.php will be served and for example2.org /www/example2/authfail.php will be served.

mac_casey · 06-23-2006, 02:23 PM

Perfect!!

Thanks so much. Makes sence now but didnt last night at 3 am!!

Thanks again.

hockeyman_102 · 06-23-2006, 02:30 PM

i like the locate command.
$ locate authfail.php
might want to run an updatedb first though.

Code:

$ updatedb
$ locate authfail.php

bulliver · 06-23-2006, 02:49 PM

Appreciate the help Hockeyman_102, but that's not the kind of "cant find the document" we are talking about :P