How to find your apache version

Find your httpd execution file. On my machine, it is under /usr/sbin/
Executing it with a argument -v gives you the apache version.

$/usr/sbin> ./httpd2 -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.0
Server built: Dec 27 2006 12:50:52

Configure 404 on Apache and Tomcat

Its simple.

To configure custom error pages on apache,
in your virtual host configuration

<virtualhost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot /www/example1
ServerName www.example1.com

ErrorDocument 404 /errordocs/404.html

</virtualhost>

And in tomcat, have something like

<web-app>
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/error404.jsp</location>
</error-page>
...
<web-app>

in your web.xml

Today I had a chance to create a custom task in ant.
I created a new class extending Task and had few instance variables to suit my business needs. Then I overridden the execute method to validate a condition and based on the output, a property in build.xml was set to either true or false. Tommorrow I will post the sample code!

I also worked on Apache redirection using regular expression rules. It worked very well. Hopefuly I would post the procedure tommorrow.

Bye for now....