Topic: Is there a way to override an apache error?

[cvillemure]

Hi,

I'm using authnz_sspi package to enable SSO with my Apache setup as a reverse proxy. However if the configuration of the server is invalid, the sspi module might generate errors such as this one :

[authnz_sspi:error] [pid 2068:tid 2860] (OS 1311)There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. : [client ...] access to /cas-server/login failed, reason: cannot generate server context

The client is then issued a 500 error page.

I would like to be able to conditionnaly override authnz error to return a custom error page only for this module. So I want a custom 500 error page for Apache in general (which I already have working) and a custom 500 error page for the sspi module errors. Is it possible?

Also IE has a bad habit of also overriding the 500 error page, would it be a good idea to return a 400 error page instead to be sure the client sees my error message? Can I override the error code?

[glsmith]

Hmmm ... couldn't you just set an ErrorDocument 500 for the location /cas-server/login that's different than the server wide 500 error document?

To get the module to spit out a 400, which isn't really correct since there was nothing wrong with the request itself, you would have to modify the module.

[cvillemure]

Since the error code cannot be overriden easily and the users using that module feature will use InternetExplorer, I just won't override the error page since they will not see it anyway.

But thanks for the idea of different error handler based on location, i haven't thought of that!