I would like to do a specific kind of 404 handling. I did look for a
way to do this before asking here. I bet it's out there, I just haven't
found the right search keywords.
I have a virtualhost in Apache ... it is the first virtualhost in
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled, configured without ServerName or ServerAlias
so it is the default virtualhost that handles any hostname that is not
specified in another virtualhost. If somebody types an incorrect
hostname in a URL that happens to point at my server, Apache gives them
my 404 page, without changing the URL they entered. Examples:
https://unknown.elyograg.org/
https://rand.elyograg.org/
https://mickeymouse.elyograg.org/donaldduck
I have 404 handling in Apache as well, so if an invalid URL path is
specified on a valid hostname, they also get that page. But in those
cases, it is accomplished with a redirect to
https://unknown.elyograg.org, so the URL changes in the user's browser.
I would like to make it so that the presentation of the 404 page is
always seamless, not a redirect.
I have haproxy in front of all my websites, and various things including
Apache 2.4 on port 81 behind that. Can haproxy do what I'm after? Can
Apache? Can it be accomplished with some combination of configs in both?
Thanks,
Shawn
