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Reply from Yel

Yel

Here's how I solved it: I've set a 'Default site' to an error.html page (it also could be an nsf).

Perhaps this helps (until upgrading to 7.03).

Btw does somebody know if this is also implemented in R8?

Reply from Fabian Robok

Fabian Robok

Peter, looks like this might be fixed in 7.0.3:

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Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett

Thanks Ian. Any chance you could post here too once it's available?

Reply from Ian Carmichael

Ian Carmichael

There is a link to our DSAPI filter in this thread which Jake quite rightly says is Win32 only. We'll post a Linux version soon (next few weeks).

Reply from Peter LaComb

Peter LaComb

ouch...that last bit about error pages being served with an HTTP 200 instead of 404 isn't pretty either.

Reply from Peter LaComb

Peter LaComb

Are we all forgetting the possibility of having Apache (or IIS on windows) handle the non-.NSF content?

That, I think, would allow you to direct the user to an .nsf.

Reply from Marcus Bårström

Marcus Bårström

Or how about an

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter

Not to sound like an ajax evangelist, but couldn't the error.html use ajax to pull your form based message into a div? (onDomIsReady ofcourse...)

Reply from philosophical

philosophical

Thanks Peter, this was on my todo list for tomorrow.

Reply from Tommy Valand

Tommy Valand

error.html could do the redirect to the database (although that's not optimal either).

document.location.replace replaces the current page's place in the history-stack with the one you specify.

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett

Brilliant Peter. Thanks for that. I would never of found it.

It's a shame you can't point it at an NSF form. I even tried a URL redirect of /error.html to /error.nsf/error?openform but it didn't work.

Only having a static HTML page isn't perfecft, but it's better than nothing!

Reply from Peter Leugner

Peter Leugner

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Notes.ini setting in 7.0.2:

HTTPMultiErrorPage=/error.html

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett

That's Win32 only Ruediger. My client runs on Linux.

Reply from Ruediger Seiffert

Ruediger Seiffert

hi, there is a dsapi-filter which achieves this:

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from the site:

In Domino ND6 it is not easy to customise the page that the user sees if they request a page which does not exist (known as a 404 page not found error). Tron Systems have built a piece of software (known as a Domino DSAPI filter) that allows the error page that users see to be customised.

Reply from Peter Leugner

Peter Leugner

You're right, it's just for databases :-(

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett

Are you sure Peter? I'm fairly certain (93%) that you can't.

Reply from Peter Leugner

Peter Leugner

you can configure this in the domcfg.nsf

Reply from Tim Eichmann

Tim Eichmann

Oops, just saw the "non-NSF-based". I read it too quick I guess and skipped the "non".

Maybe this helps: {Link}

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett

Thanks Tim, but that's for errors inside NSF files only.

Reply from Tim Eichmann

Tim Eichmann

Hi Jake,

I use the "$$ReturnGeneralError" form. And use a computed text field called "MessageString" (which is the value as well). And it seems to work.

There is also a topic on this on the IBM site:

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Hope it helps......

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett

I just remembered asking this question before but that there was no satisfactory solution. Has anything changed in the two years since?