How To Redirect 403 Response To Friendly Page

[Damendra]

Hi,

Not sure if anyone has done this, but is it possible to redirect the 403 thrown by acegi to a customised page? Does anyone have a solution?

Regards

[kbaum]

In the web.xml, you can define an error page based on the error-code element. This documentation is from BEA, but it's the same for all servlet containers.

http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/web...l.html#1017571

[Damendra]

Thanks Karl,

did do this:
<error-page>
<error-code>403</error-code>
<location>403.jsp</location>
</error-page>

but it never worked..

[kbaum]

Hmmmm... what page did you get when you tried that?

[kbaum]

Just looked in one of my old projects. You may be missing a forward slash if the 403.jsp is in the root of your webapp.

<error-page>
<error-code>403</error-code>
<location>/403.jsp</location>
</error-page>

Where is the 403.jsp? If you wanted to hit the 403.jsp directly, what URL would you use?

[Damendra]

Hi,

have tried the /403.jsp too - that didn't work either. what actaully gets displayed is an auto-generated forbidden page..

if i hit the 403.jsp directly it does get displayed.

thanks