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diff --git a/docs/manual/custom-error.html.en b/docs/manual/custom-error.html.en new file mode 100644 index 0000000..358a19a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/manual/custom-error.html.en @@ -0,0 +1,237 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head> +<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> +<!-- + XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX + This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT + XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX + --> +<title>Custom Error Responses - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4</title> +<link href="./style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> +<link href="./style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> +<link href="./style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style/css/prettify.css" /> +<script src="./style/scripts/prettify.min.js" type="text/javascript"> +</script> + +<link href="./images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head> +<body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"> +<p class="menu"><a href="./mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="./mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ">FAQ</a> | <a href="./glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="./sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p> +<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4</p> +<img alt="" src="./images/feather.png" /></div> +<div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="./images/left.gif" /></a></div> +<div id="path"> +<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="./">Version 2.4</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Custom Error Responses</h1> +<div class="toplang"> +<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="./en/custom-error.html" title="English"> en </a> | +<a href="./es/custom-error.html" hreflang="es" rel="alternate" title="Español"> es </a> | +<a href="./fr/custom-error.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français"> fr </a> | +<a href="./ja/custom-error.html" hreflang="ja" rel="alternate" title="Japanese"> ja </a> | +<a href="./ko/custom-error.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a> | +<a href="./tr/custom-error.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="Türkçe"> tr </a></p> +</div> + + + <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> + + </div> +<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> +<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="configuration" id="configuration">Configuration</a></h2> + + <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> + + <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> + + + <p>The syntax of the <code>ErrorDocument</code> directive is:</p> + + <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ErrorDocument <3-digit-code> <action></pre> + + + <p>where the action will be treated as:</p> + + <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> + + </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<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> + </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<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> + + </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<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> + + </div></div> +<div class="bottomlang"> +<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="./en/custom-error.html" title="English"> en </a> | +<a href="./es/custom-error.html" hreflang="es" rel="alternate" title="Español"> es </a> | +<a href="./fr/custom-error.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français"> fr </a> | +<a href="./ja/custom-error.html" hreflang="ja" rel="alternate" title="Japanese"> ja </a> | +<a href="./ko/custom-error.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a> | +<a href="./tr/custom-error.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="Türkçe"> tr </a></p> +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img src="./images/up.gif" alt="top" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a id="comments_section" name="comments_section">Comments</a></h2><div class="warning"><strong>Notice:</strong><br />This is not a Q&A section. 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