Using Resin 2.0.2 and error-page in web-xml. How?

[Stefan Elfvinge]

< error-page>
  < exception-type>sol.caseman.EmailException< /exception-type>
  < location>/email_exception.html< /location>
< /error-page>

The html file is located under above the WEB-INF dir. I try this out by forcing a servlet that throws a MessagingException to rethrow an EmailException(derived from ServletException) but I get a 404 that says it can't locate the email_exception.html??? Something wrong with paths???
edited tags to show the XML
[ July 19, 2002: Message edited by: Frank Carver ]

[Frank Carver]

The location entry is relative to the application root. (e.g. http://www.myserver.net/myapp/email_exception.html )
and should be placed at the top of the web application, with your other html files. Is that where you have put it ?
Have you checked the name of the file is exactly the same, including the case and the '_' ?

[Stefan Elfvinge]

Yes, I've tried every possible location-value- removing "/", removing "http:/" etc. AND crosschecked spellings 100 times. I even tried this approach in web.xml:

 <web-app id='/foo'>
      <error-page exception-type='sol.caseman.EmailException'
                  location='/email_exception.html'/>
</web-app>
 

...though, without "id=/myapp"
but same errors!
Anyway, I solved it with HttpServletResponse stream to hardcode some html in the catch-block.
Poor solution? Maybe, but it works...
please comment on this and thanks for your reply!
/Steffe

[Stefan Elfvinge]

oops, this is the entire new approach:

<web-app id='/foo'>
      <error-page exception- type='java.lang.NullPointerException'
                  location='/nullpointer.jsp'/>
</web-app>

[Stefan Elfvinge]

sorry, here it is again without the code-tags:
<web-app id='/foo'>
<error-page exception-type='java.lang.NullPointerException'<br /> location='/nullpointer.jsp'/>
</web-app>

[Stefan Elfvinge]

I'll try hardwriting it...

<web-app id='/foo'>
<error-page exception-type='java.lang.NullPointerException'<br /> location='/nullpointer.jsp'/>
</web-app>

[Stefan Elfvinge]

Last try, and I am SORRY:
<web-app id='/foo'>
<error-page exception-type='sol.caseman.EmailException'>
<location='/email_exception.html'/>
</web-app>

[Stefan Elfvinge]

WHY???!!!
Is something fooled by the tags I'm trying to post???

 < web-app id='/foo'>
      < error-page exception-type='sol.caseman.EmailException'
                 location='/email_exception.html'/>
< /web-app>

[ July 19, 2002: Message edited by: Frank Carver ]

[Frank Carver]

The problem is that HTML markup is turned "on" for this forum, so the tags are swallowed by UBB (the bulletin board software). The trick is to place a space after each < character, so that UBB doesn't recognize them as markup. I'll edit your last one for you to show how.

[Stefan Elfvinge]

Thanks, Frank!
But what do think about the problem to get the container to "find" the html?