Dear
All,
I'm new to this list
and new to AOLServer so please be gentle - I'm likely to have lots of questions
over the following days, weeks, months .....
(I've come from the
fantasy world of Vignette, and I do understand Tcl, *NIX and the web pretty
well, so I'm not a complete newbie).
I've manager to get
AOLServer (3.5.2) up and running under Win2K (just for development
purposes) and I've spotted that its possible to specify custom error pages in a
couple of different ways.
One is to define the
ADP 'errorpage', the other is to setup internal redirects for each individual
error code.
I've got a couple of
questions in this area:
1) How do I
use the ADP 'errorpage' - I can define it ok, but I've no idea what would
typically be put in the ADP page specified. Ideally (during development)
I'd like to be able to see the ADP error trace in the browser rather than have
to go hunting in the server log - how might I do this?
Does anyone have any
example code they use in an ADP error page?
2) Can both methods
be used simultaneously? I'm fully aware of the potential problems of
having a dynamic error page with no static ones to fall back
on.
3) I'm currently
being served the static 404 page, when there is a deliberate code error in the
page. I'd have expected to see the 500 (Internal Server error
page).
Am I seeing the
normal behaviour?
On a completely
unrelated note:
4) What's the
recommended method (for AOLServer) for dealing with a large number of users on a
highly personalized site?
Do people use the
nsperm WWW-Authentication level of access control?
Roll their own
with users as entities in the database?
Can a Directory
Server be accessed using nsldap to provide WWW-Authentication access
control?
Thanks in advance
for any help/advice you can give me, or any sites you can point me at where I
can find this stuff out.
Tim
