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Oct 18, 2009, 2:24 PM
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Thank you Scott, I knew about .htacess but was not sure that it is supported
over "server config" context in apache.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Scott Haneda <talklists [at] newgeo> wrote:
> Set your Error Document directive:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument
>
> ErrorDocument 404 /place/mailer.php
> ErrorDocument 406 /place/mailer.php
> ErrorDocument 500 /place/mailer.php
> ErrorDocument 501 /place/mailer.php
>
> In mailer.php, or whatever scripting language you chose to use, you will
> have code that sends an email. I would be careful, this can get a little
> out of hand, and you will get a lot of emails.
>
> I may be inclined to do something like this: (pseudo code)
>
> no_mail_arr = array('google', 'bing', etc etc etc)
> if (user_agent not in array)
> $message = the headers + the page name + the url + the agent +
> referrer
> mail(someone [at] example 'error on page $page', $message)
> end if
>
> In reality, I think it would be better to just set up a custom logging
> directive, and log any http you desire, to a special log, with all the data
> you need. Run that log through any good stats software, and you will be much
> better off.
>
> --
> Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2009, at 1:28 PM, MadTh wrote:
>
> Please advise on how can we monitor HTTP Error Codes on a web server and
>> then send an email alert upon errors.
>>
>> The HTTP Error Codes we need alerts on are 404,406,500 and 501 errors
>>
>> We do not want to monitor it for a particular site, but serverwide. So we
>> need to find some way to pull the details from apache error log (
>> /etc/httpd/logs/error_log
>>
>
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