Perl Question?

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Jeffrey Utter on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:21:52PM -0400:
> 
> I have a perl script running on my server that takes in part of a url as
> it's argument then loads the appropriate page.
> 
> Here is an example:   say I want to load  /user/Jeff/page/
> 
> well the call to the script looks like script.pl?/user/Jeff/page/
> This is kind of like a big wrapper to go around any other html code I
> happen to create so I don't have to type it over and over again.  
> 
> anyway the question is:  Is there a way I can have a perl script tell the
> webserver that it had a 404 error?  so the server 404 page is generated as
> a response.  
> 
> Apache 1.3.9 on FreeBSD 4.3

I'm not sure the exactly, but your question prompted me to look up
the answer to a question I've had for a long time.

Question:  How do you customize the 404 page? =)

Answer:  Add something like this to your apache.conf (or httpd.conf
or whatever it is these days),

ErrorDocument 404 /usr/local/www/data/error404.html

More details at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#errordocument

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