401 error page

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401 error page

Hi,
On my site, I'd like to redirect 401 errors to a specific page instead of the user getting the generic error page produced by Apache.
I already have the page built but am not sure where to change to tell Apache to serve this page when I get a 401.
many thanks,
Jonathan

1 XServe, 150 iMacs, 25 G4's, 10 G5's, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on May 28, 2009 9:21 AM

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Answer 1

May 28, 2009 3:03 PM in response to Jonathan Jackson1

You need to add the ErrorDocument directive in either your httpd.conf or .htaccess files. More info here:

For Apache 1.3: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/custom-error.html

For Apache 2.x: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument

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Answer 2

gracoat

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May 31, 2009 10:50 PM in response to Jonathan Jackson1

Unfortunately, the server's smart about which error page it presents to it's users under given conditions.
The error files are located in /usr/share/httpd/error under OS X Server 10.5.
Notice though that they're named HTTP NOTFOUND.html.var (there's a var on the end of this example)
Not too many web browsers will deal with this nicely if you just up and change the contents of this file.

You have to go into your httpd.conf file in /etc/apache2 and edit the error section. It's kinda long in OS X server so you have to scroll down a bit. You'd then have to change the config to display your error page under your given conditions.

Hope this puts you in the right direction!

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