Awesome Peter. On 4/21/16, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Mr. Obbayi! Got it to work by following your directions:

1. Place the files themselves inside /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT/ 2. Make the CSS inline, mine didnt work with external CSS file, but worked fine with inline CSS 3. In /etc/tomcat7/web.xml, have these lines just below <welcome-file-list>: <error-page> <error-code>404</error-code> <location>/404.html</location> </error-page> <error-page> <error-code>403</error-code> <location>/403.html</location> </error-page> <error-page> <error-code>500</error-code> <location>/500.html</location> </error-page>

And it works!

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Steven Obbayi <sobbayi@gmail.com> wrote:

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1. Just make sure the custom error files are accessible through the root directory. 2. In the location tag add a leading slash to the path

On 4/21/16, Peter Karunyu via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

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Members, I have tried so many solutions courtesy of google, and none seems to work.

I have deployed two apps in tomcat, dspace and geonetwork. I want to set the aforementioned custom error pages for both, at once.

So in /etc/tomcat7/web.xml, I added the following (just below <welcome-file-list>):

<error-page>

<error-code>404</error-code>

<location>error/404.html</location>

</error-page>

<error-page>

<error-code>403</error-code>

<location>error/403.html</location>

</error-page>

<error-page>

<error-code>500</error-code>

<location>error/500.html</location>

</error-page>

Then I have a folder called error in /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/.

I had tried putting the error folder inside /etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/, still didnt work.

What am I missing?

With each change, I restart tomcat