Thank you Scott, I knew about .htacess but was not sure that it is supported over "server config" context in apache.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com> wrote: > Set your Error Document directive: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument > > ErrorDocument 404 /place/mailer.php > ErrorDocument 406 /place/mailer.php > ErrorDocument 500 /place/mailer.php > ErrorDocument 501 /place/mailer.php > > In mailer.php, or whatever scripting language you chose to use, you will > have code that sends an email. I would be careful, this can get a little > out of hand, and you will get a lot of emails. > > I may be inclined to do something like this: (pseudo code) > > no_mail_arr = array('google', 'bing', etc etc etc) > if (user_agent not in array) > $message = the headers + the page name + the url + the agent + > referrer > mail(some...@example.com 'error on page $page', $message) > end if > > In reality, I think it would be better to just set up a custom logging > directive, and log any http you desire, to a special log, with all the data > you need. Run that log through any good stats software, and you will be much > better off. > > -- > Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * > > > On Oct 18, 2009, at 1:28 PM, MadTh wrote: > > Please advise on how can we monitor HTTP Error Codes on a web server and >> then send an email alert upon errors. >> >> The HTTP Error Codes we need alerts on are 404,406,500 and 501 errors >> >> We do not want to monitor it for a particular site, but serverwide. So we >> need to find some way to pull the details from apache error log ( >> /etc/httpd/logs/error_log >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
