Error Pages

[RWF]

Any consideration to allow Error pages (400,401, 402, etc) to be handled/editable from within SiteWorx?

[IWorx-Chris]

Absolutely, on 'the list' :).

Chris

[RWF]

I know you guys will eventually add the possibility of specifying custom error pages from within SiteWorx, but until then where do I specify it?

I am NOT looking for an overall setting for all my accounts, as some sites (customers), do not need custom error pages.

So what I am looking for is the file, specific for each account(site) where I can edit and specify the custom error pages.

I sure look forward to these much needed features will be added, so I can spend some time developing my own sites, instead of messing with customizing user accounts.

Also maybe it would be helpful to us InterWorx users, if you guys would post a list of features and estimated dates, of what's cooking.

Thanks

[IWorx-Paul]

This is actually really easy.

1) Put the following at the very end of the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
ErrorDocument 401 /401.html
ErrorDocument 403 /403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
ErrorDocument 500 /500.html


2) Restart the apache webserver, via NodeWorx or at the command line:
# service httpd restart

3) Create the error files in the users web space. For example, if you create a 404.html in the user's html directory, 404 errors will show this page.

Paul

[RWF]

Paul,

thanks for your fast reply, however I already knew that.

But is that not for ALL the accounts(sites)?

I was hoping that custom error pages could be specified individually for each site, as I wrote some of my customers don't need custom error pages.

[IWorx-Paul]

No, that is not for all accounts. You can have a different 404.html for each site.

Doing it that way, you could have

/home/XXXXX/domain1.com/html/404.html

and

/home/YYYYY/differentdomain.com/html/404.html

and it will show the correct 404 page for the correct domain. If there is no 404.html file a generic 404 error will be displayed.

Paul

[RWF]

Ok now I a bit confused, because the following is already in the config file:

# Customizable error responses come in three flavors:
# 1) plain text 2) local redirects 3) external redirects
#
# Some examples:
#ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo."
#ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
#ErrorDocument 404 "/cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl"
#ErrorDocument 402 http://www.example.com/subscription_info.html
#

#
# Putting this all together, we can Internationalize error responses.
#
# We use Alias to redirect any /error/HTTP_<error>.html.var response to
# our collection of by-error message multi-language collections. We use
# includes to substitute the appropriate text.
#
# You can modify the messages' appearance without changing any of the
# default HTTP_<error>.html.var files by adding the line;
#
# Alias /error/include/ "/your/include/path/"
#
# which allows you to create your own set of files by starting with the
# /var/www/error/include/ files and
# copying them to /your/include/path/, even on a per-VirtualHost basis.
#

Alias /error/ "/var/www/error/"

<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
<IfModule mod_include.c>
<Directory "/var/www/error">
AllowOverride None
Options IncludesNoExec
AddOutputFilter Includes html
AddHandler type-map var
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
LanguagePriority en es de fr
ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
</Directory>

ErrorDocument 400 /error/HTTP_BAD_REQUEST.html.var
ErrorDocument 401 /error/HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED.html.var
ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
ErrorDocument 404 /error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var
ErrorDocument 405 /error/HTTP_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED.html.var
ErrorDocument 408 /error/HTTP_REQUEST_TIME_OUT.html.var
ErrorDocument 410 /error/HTTP_GONE.html.var
ErrorDocument 411 /error/HTTP_LENGTH_REQUIRED.html.var
ErrorDocument 412 /error/HTTP_PRECONDITION_FAILED.html.var
ErrorDocument 413 /error/HTTP_REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE.html.var
ErrorDocument 414 /error/HTTP_REQUEST_URI_TOO_LARGE.html.var
ErrorDocument 415 /error/HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE.html.var
ErrorDocument 500 /error/HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR.html.var
ErrorDocument 501 /error/HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED.html.var
ErrorDocument 502 /error/HTTP_BAD_GATEWAY.html.var
ErrorDocument 503 /error/HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE.html.var
ErrorDocument 506 /error/HTTP_VARIANT_ALSO_VARIES.html.var

</IfModule>
</IfModule>



So my question is, do I leave that as is, edit it or delete it?

Also you wrote do this:

/home/XXXXX/domain1.com/html/404.html

and

/home/YYYYY/differentdomain.com/html/404.html


Don't you mean do this:

ErrorDocument 404 /home/XXXXX/domain1.com/html/404.html

and

ErrorDocument 404 /home/YYYYY/differentdomain.com/html/404.html


To many possibilities for me to screw up, can you please be more specific.

Thanks

[IWorx-Paul]

I was specific the first time RWF :)

Just do exactly as I said in steps 1, 2, and 3, and it should work as I described.

Paul

[RWF]

Oh, I see the confusion now.

You though I was talking about the actual error file, example 404.htm. Well of course I know that can be made by the site owner, and uploaded to his site.

What I was actually talking about, was can I somewhere specify which file to look for, for each site that is?

So for example:

Site 1 looks for 404.htm

Site 2 looks for 404.shtml

Site 3 look for index.htm

Site 4 not specified, so it now looks for the default 404.htm


You get me know?

[IWorx-Paul]

I see what you're saying now.

To do this you create a .htaccess file in the user's html directory, with one of the following lines, if you only wanted to override 404 errors.

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

Or,

ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml

Or,

ErrorDocument 404 /index.htm

etc, etc.

Paul

[RWF]

Thanks

[R-n-R]

Any update to when Custom ERROR pages will be made aviable through SiteWorx?

Thanks

[IWorx-Chris]

We have no hard release date for the error page feature but I suspect it will make it into the 2.2 release r-n-r. That said I'm honestly not sure and it could slip depending on the 2.2 priorities.

Chris

[R-n-R]

Thanks fo rthe info Chris, buy the way is there a "Road Map" of new features for future releases posted any where?

[IWorx-Chris]

r-n-r,

There isn't, for 2 reasons:

1. Our focus changes as clients suggest things so priorities don't always stay the same. You can get a feel from reading the forums what's coming in general by the feedback and our comments.

2. We don't want to give any competitors juicy info :)

Chris