Ed, Thank you - a very cool reference with a number of tricks/knowledge. - Richard
-----Original Message----- From: Gmail User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:23 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp I believe this link has the info you are looking for. It discusses displaying error messages by Apache when the app server is down. http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/ApacheModProxy Ed On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 11:33 -0400, Len Popp wrote: > I've been thinking about the same problem, but I haven't gotten around > to working on it seriously. > How about this: Instead of fiddling with the JkMount directives in > Apache, swap the web.xml in your Tomcat app so it points to a minimal > servlet that returns the "Out of service" page for all requests. > Does that sound like it would work? It would be less disruptive > because you don't have to restart Apache (if there's more to the web > site than the one Tomcat app). Plus this will work with stand-alone Tomcat. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]