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You can reference here for a Site aware exception handling in Magnolia CMS which is updated for Magnolia CMS 5.7.+


The 404 Handler

In some projects you may want to have the possibility to define your own Error-Pages (as 404 etc.).
With magnolia it is either possible to define this pages internally in the website tree, or externally.

Since magnolia 3.5 (magnolia internal error page)

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If you are using Tomcat/Jboss you can do so by simple edit the magnoliaPublic web.xml (inside

webapps\magnoliaPublic\WEB-INF\web.xml

...

)

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and

...

add

...

the

...

following

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section:

Code Block
xml
xml

{code}
<error-page>
   <error-code>404</error-code>
   <location>/errorPages/404.html</location>
</error-page>
{code}
After your application server restarted, the error page will now come out of magnolia (with all it's benefits).

If you have an older version of magnolia or, for whatever reasons, want to have your error page outside of magnolia you can do this as well following the procedure below.

h2. Before magnolia 3.5 (external/redirected error page)

For this example let's assume that your magnolia site is under /index/
and that you have created your own 404.html error page under that..ie
{code}
/index/404.html
{code}
Edit the magnoliaPublic {{web.xml}} (inside {{

When using a single installation with multiple domains, host based virtual URI mapping might be useful:

Code Block
xml
xml
<!--
    The error handler for HTTP 404 Not Found, and alike.

    The page "/my-virtual-uri-mapping/error-404" does not exist, but
    is used in some URL rewriting configured like below:

    - The rewriting uses "ends-with" mappings, so "magnolia-cms.de" also
      matches "www.magnolia-cms.de". And simply using ".de" matches both
      domains as well.

    - When there are multiple matches, the longest match is selected.

    - If there's no match, then the mapping in "toUri" is used.

    - Using "forward:" ensures that Tomcat preserves the actual HTTP
      error code, making browsers and search engines understand that the
      page is actually an error page, even though a normal Magnolia page
      is shown to the visitor.

    Configuration
      + modules
        :
        + adminInterface
          :
          + virtualURIMapping
            :
            + my-error-forbidden
              + hosts
                - 1      .de=forward:/de/some/magnolia/forbidden/page
                - 2      .com=forward:/en/some/other/forbidden/page
              - class    info.magnolia.cms.beans.config.HostBasedVirtualURIMapping
              - fromURI  /my-virtual-uri-mapping/error-403
              - toURI    forward:/en/some/default/magnolia/forbidden/page
            + my-error-notfound
              + hosts
                - 1      .de=forward:/de/some/magnolia/notfound/page
                - 2      .com=forward:/en/some/other/notfound/page
              - class    info.magnolia.cms.beans.config.HostBasedVirtualURIMapping
              - fromURI  /my-virtual-uri-mapping/error-404
              - toURI    forward:/en/some/default/magnolia/notfound/page
-->
<error-page>
    <error-code>403</error-code>
    <location>/my-virtual-uri-mapping/error-403</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
    <error-code>404</error-code>
    <location>/my-virtual-uri-mapping/error-404</location>
</error-page>

A 500 Internal Server Error might best be served without relying on Magnolia. Hence:

Code Block
xml
xml
<error-page>
   <error-code>500</error-code>
    <!--
        Magnolia's default "/docroot" is known in server, filters, cms, bypasses.
        When using another path, be sure to add a bypass for that path as well.
    -->
   <location>/docroot/error-500.html</location>
</error-page>

After your application server restarted, the error page will now come out of magnolia (with all it's benefits).

If you have an older version of magnolia or, for whatever reasons, want to have your error page outside of magnolia you can do this as well following the procedure below.

Before magnolia 3.5 (external/redirected error page)

For this example let's assume that your magnolia site is under /index/
and that you have created your own 404.html error page under that..ie

Code Block
/index/404.html

Edit the magnoliaPublic web.xml (inside webapps\magnoliaPublic\WEB-INF\web.xml

...

)

...


and

...

add

...

the

...

following

...

section:

{
Code Block
}
<error-page>
     <error-code>404</error-code>
     <location>/admintemplates/404.jsp</location>
  </error-page>
{code}

Now,

...

create

...

a

...

404.jsp

...

file

...

inside

...

your

...

\webapps\magnoliaPublic\admintemplates

...

directory

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that

...

contains

...

the

...

following

...

jsp

...

code

{
Code Block
}
<%
response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY);
String contextName = request.getContextPath();
String newLocn = contextName + "/index/404.html";
response.setHeader("Location",newLocn);
%>
{code}

What

...

will

...

happen

...

is

...

that

...

if

...

a

...

user

...

requests

...

a

...

page

...

that

...

doesn't

...

exist

...

inside

...


your

...

magnoliaPublic

...

context

...

then

...

Tomcat

...

will

...

redirect

...

the

...

user

...

to

...

the

...

/admintemplates/404.jsp

...

page

...

which

...

then

...

redirects

...

to

...

your

...

/index/404.html

...

page.

...

Why

...

must

...

you

...

do

...

it

...

this

...

way??

...

Well,

...

your

...

web.xml

...

has

...

to

...

point

...

to

...

a

...

file

...

that

...

actually

...

exists

...

somewhere

...

in

...

your

...

webapps

...

directory,

...

not

...

to

...

a

...

'virtual'

...

file

...

in

...

your

...

Magnolia

...

repository.

...

If

...

you

...

doubt

...

this,

...

try

...

replacing

...

/admintemplates/404.jsp

...

with

...

/magnoliaPublic/index/404.html

...

and

...

see

...

what

...

happens.

...

We

...

point

...

the

...

web.xml

...

to

...

a

...

'real'

...

file

...

and

...

then

...

have

...

that

...

real

...

file

...

perform

...

a

...

redirect

...

to

...

your

...

magnolia

...

generated

...

404.html

...

file.

{
Note
}

Please

note

here,

that

when

you

are

redirecting

the

error

page,

the

page

header

received

by

the

request

will

no

longer

by

404

but

302

instead.

This

may

lead

to

some

issues

with

search

engines,

like

with

google

for

example.

{note} h4. When using this with Magnolia

When using this with Magnolia 3.5.x

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Now

...

to

...

make

...

this

...

work

...

with

...

Magnolia

...

v3.5.x

...

you

...

need

...

to

...

define

...

a

...

bypass

...

for

...

a

...

custom

...

jsp

...

page

...

created

...

above.

{:=
Warning
title
Warning
}

When

configuring

bypass

all

the

values

are

applied

*

immediately

*

.

In

other

words,

your

filter

will

be

applied

before

it

is

configured,

resulting

in

a

completely

broken

configuration.

Hence

you

must

configure

this

node

elsewhere

in

the

tree

and

only

when

fully

configured

move

it

to

(

{{

server/filters/bypasses

}}

)

Read

what

you

can

do

[

if

your

bypass

configuration

is

broken.

| Repair broken bypass configuration ] {warning} Go to the configuration menu and create new contentNode anywhere *but not at* {{

Go to the configuration menu and create new contentNode anywhere but not at
server/filters/bypasses

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and

...

call

...

it

...

404

...

for

...

this

...

node

...

create

...

dataNode

...

class

...

and

...

set

...

it

...

to

...

info.magnolia.voting.voters.URIStartsWithVoter

...

and

...

dataNode

...

pattern

...

with

...

value

...

pointing

...

to

...

your

...

404.jsp

...

(i.e.

...

/admintemplates/404.jsp

...

in

...

the

...

case

...

of

...

example

...

above).

...

Once

...

configured,

...

move

...

your

...

node

...

to

...

server/filters/bypasses

...

.

In its previous incarnation on JspWiki, this page was last edited on Mar 31, 2007 10:07:56

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