Actually, I've managed to answer my own question - the <location> path needs to be 
from the web root of Tomcat. Now its working fine, but with an interesting problem.
Http Status 401 actually just means that authentication is required, which means that 
the site is automatically redirecting to the error page before asking for 
authentication ... is there any way of solving this? Or is it time I accepted I should 
be using FORM authentication rather than BASIC???

Cheers all
Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Sefton, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 July 2002 16:39
To: 'Tomcat Users List'
Subject: Error on startup when using custom error pages


Hi,

I'm trying to pick up error codes and display custom error pages. The one I'm working 
with currently is the 401 error in the case of failed logins. I've added the following 
in my /conf/web.xml:

<error-page>
        <error-code>401</error-code>
        <location>error.html</location>
</error-page>

and I have error.html in the conf directory.

When I try to start the Tomcat server, I get the following errors:

ERROR reading java.io.FileInputStream@e06940
At Line 849 /web-app/error-page/ 

ERROR reading java.io.FileInputStream@90c06f
At Line 849 /web-app/error-page/ 

ERROR reading java.io.FileInputStream@766806
At Line 849 /web-app/error-page/ 

ERROR reading java.io.FileInputStream@c623af
At Line 849 /web-app/error-page/ 

Does anyone have any ideas? I recall reading somewhere that the custom error setup 
with TOmcat was quite buggy, is this the problem?

I am using Tomcat 4.0.3 standalone on Win2k

Cheers

Adam


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