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When the application is loading on a EAR re-deployment you get a 404 error, how do we trap this issue and provide a user friendly message to the end user accessing the application.
HTTP Status 404 – /myapp
type Status report
message /myapp
description The requested resource (/myapp) is not available.
JBoss Web/2.1.3.GA
It wont be possible to give a friendly message from within the application – since the application
/myappitself is not available.The usual way to handle this is at the web server level – where you set up another temporary site when your application is out due to maintenance. Redirect all requests to a friendly error message.
No requests will come through to the app server. Any bookmarked URLs will also get the out of service page from the alternate app.
A detailed approach is given at http://www.webreference.com/programming/Apache-Site-Down-Notice/
If you do not have a web server in your setup, then you can set up the maintenance page (some index.html) on another web app setup with the same context mapping to
/myappWhen your EAR is down, bring up that one.
For JBoss I think you can change the location of the 404 page by setting it in
You’ll have to make this point to some page OUTSIDE of /myapp