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| <p>Although the Apache HTTP Server provides generic error responses |
| in the event of 4xx or 5xx HTTP status codes, these responses are |
| rather stark, uninformative, and can be intimidating to site users. |
| You may wish to provide custom error responses which are either |
| friendlier, or in some language other than English, or perhaps which |
| are styled more in line with your site layout.</p> |
| |
| <p>Customized error responses can be defined for any HTTP status |
| code designated as an error condition - that is, any 4xx or 5xx |
| status.</p> |
| |
| <p>Additionally, a set of values are provided, so |
| that the error document can be customized further based on the |
| values of these variables, using <a href="howto/ssi.html">Server |
| Side Includes</a>. Or, you can have error conditions handled by a |
| cgi program, or other dynamic handler (PHP, mod_perl, etc) which |
| makes use of these variables.</p> |
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| <div id="quickview"><a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html" class="badge"><img src="https://www.apache.org/images/SupportApache-small.png" alt="Support Apache!" /></a><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#configuration">Configuration</a></li> |
| <li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#variables">Available Variables</a></li> |
| <li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#custom">Customizing Error Responses</a></li> |
| <li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#multi-lang">Multi Language Custom Error Documents</a></li> |
| </ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div> |
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| <h2><a name="configuration" id="configuration">Configuration</a></h2> |
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| <p>Custom error documents are configured using the <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code> directive, |
| which may be used in global, |
| virtualhost, or directory context. It may be used in .htaccess files |
| if <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> is set to |
| FileInfo.</p> |
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| <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ErrorDocument 500 "Sorry, our script crashed. Oh dear" |
| ErrorDocument 500 /cgi-bin/crash-recover |
| ErrorDocument 500 http://error.example.com/server_error.html |
| ErrorDocument 404 /errors/not_found.html |
| ErrorDocument 401 /subscription/how_to_subscribe.html</pre> |
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| <p>The syntax of the <code>ErrorDocument</code> directive is:</p> |
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| <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ErrorDocument <3-digit-code> <action></pre> |
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| <p>where the action will be treated as:</p> |
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| <ol> |
| <li>A local URL to redirect to (if the action begins with a "/").</li> |
| <li>An external URL to redirect to (if the action is a valid URL).</li> |
| <li>Text to be displayed (if none of the above). The text must be |
| wrapped in quotes (") if it consists of more than one word.</li> |
| </ol> |
| |
| <p>When redirecting to a local URL, additional environment variables |
| are set so that the response can be further customized. They are not sent to |
| external URLs.</p> |
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| <h2><a name="variables" id="variables">Available Variables</a></h2> |
| |
| <p>Redirecting to another URL can be useful, but only if some |
| information can be passed which can then be used to explain or log |
| the error condition more clearly.</p> |
| |
| <p>To achieve this, when the error redirect is sent, additional |
| environment variables will be set, which will be generated from |
| the headers provided to the original request by prepending |
| 'REDIRECT_' onto the original header name. This provides the error |
| document the context of the original request.</p> |
| |
| <p>For example, you might receive, in addition to more usual |
| environment variables, the following.</p> |
| |
| <div class="example"><p><code> |
| REDIRECT_HTTP_ACCEPT=*/*, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png<br /> |
| REDIRECT_HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 Fedora/3.5.8-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.8<br /> |
| REDIRECT_PATH=.:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin<br /> |
| REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING=<br /> |
| REDIRECT_REMOTE_ADDR=121.345.78.123<br /> |
| REDIRECT_REMOTE_HOST=client.example.com<br /> |
| REDIRECT_SERVER_NAME=www.example.edu<br /> |
| REDIRECT_SERVER_PORT=80<br /> |
| REDIRECT_SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/2.2.15<br /> |
| REDIRECT_URL=/cgi-bin/buggy.pl |
| </code></p></div> |
| |
| <p><code>REDIRECT_</code> environment variables are created from |
| the 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>.</p> |
| |
| <p><code>REDIRECT_URL</code>, <code>REDIRECT_STATUS</code>, and |
| <code>REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING</code> are guaranteed to be set, and |
| the other headers will be set only if they existed prior to the |
| error condition.</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>None</strong> of these will be |
| set if the <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code> target 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> |
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| <h2><a name="custom" id="custom">Customizing Error Responses</a></h2> |
| |
| <p>If you point your <code>ErrorDocument</code> to some variety of |
| dynamic handler such as a server-side include document, CGI |
| script, or some variety of other handler, you may wish to use the |
| available custom environment variables to customize this |
| response.</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> |
| |
| <pre class="prettyprint lang-perl">... |
| 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 <code>404 Not Found</code>, it can |
| use the specific code and error text instead.</p> |
| |
| <p>Note that if the response contains <code>Location:</code> |
| header (in order to issue a client-side redirect), the script |
| <em>must</em> emit an appropriate <code>Status:</code> header |
| (such as <code>302 Found</code>). Otherwise the |
| <code>Location:</code> header may have no effect.</p> |
| |
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| <div class="section"> |
| <h2><a name="multi-lang" id="multi-lang">Multi Language Custom Error Documents</a></h2> |
| |
| <p>Provided with your installation of the Apache HTTP Server is a |
| directory of custom error documents translated into 16 different |
| languages. There's also a configuration file in the |
| <code>conf/extra</code> configuration directory that can be included |
| to enable this feature.</p> |
| |
| <p>In your server configuration file, you'll see a line such as:</p> |
| |
| <pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># Multi-language error messages |
| #Include conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf</pre> |
| |
| |
| <p>Uncommenting this <code>Include</code> line will enable this |
| feature, and provide language-negotiated error messages, based on |
| the language preference set in the client browser.</p> |
| |
| <p>Additionally, these documents contain various of the |
| <code>REDIRECT_</code> variables, so that additional information can |
| be provided to the end-user about what happened, and what they can |
| do now.</p> |
| |
| <p>These documents can be customized to whatever degree you wish to |
| provide more useful information to users about your site, and what |
| they can expect to find there.</p> |
| |
| <p><code class="module"><a href="./mod/mod_include.html">mod_include</a></code> and <code class="module"><a href="./mod/mod_negotiation.html">mod_negotiation</a></code> |
| must be enabled to use this feature.</p> |
| |
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