Custom error message

[Knut-Olav Hoven]

On Monday 13 August 2007 16:03:39 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Knut-Olav Hoven <hovenko at linpro.no> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at linpro.no> writes:
> > > Knut-Olav Hoven <hovenko at linpro.no> writes:
> > > > How can I customize the error messages that Varnish return?
> > >
> > > Not easily; edit bin/varnishd/cache_synthetic.c and recompile.
> >
> > So I can't intercept the response in vcl, detect if the response
> > code is 503 and then trigger a new 503 error with a different
> > message or HTML code?
>
> It might be possible to change req.url and issue a restart?  Poul-Henning?
>
> Of course, if Apache is down and your error page isn't cached, you're SOL.

If it is possible to issue a temporary redirect back to the user with a new 
url, that could work for my case.

The error page can then be stored on a different webserver.

>
> DES



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Knut-Olav Hoven
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