Custom error pages for 404, 500 status codes

[GoogleCodeExporter]

This can be implemented either through Mongoose web server error handling mechanism, or through the OnLoadError() callback in CEF.

For now I see only use for it for 404 pages. But there might be other cases, like directory listing denial (500?). PHP errors can be handled via set_error_handler and set_exception_handler functions. Though we might support all 5xx status codes here as well.

Support for other error codes should be straightforward to add, see

phpdesktop/phpdesktop-chrome/web_server.cpp

Line 52 in 190fbae

// Called when mongoose is about to send HTTP error to the client.

See also related issues that are about friendly error messages:

• Issue Display friendly message for: "Error 500: Internal Server Error. CGI program sent malformed or too big (>16384 bytes) HTTP headers" #131
• Issue Display friendly error message when spawning CGI process fails #127

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 May 2014 at 11:28

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi,
If there was an option (a settings.json parameter) to set a single error page for all possible errors then too it was great. The need to for separate error pages for 404,500 etc might be minimum, but the certainly there is good need and use for a common/general custom error page.
Thanks and regards,
Sreenadh

[GoogleCodeExporter]

New option ["web_server"]["404_handler"] was added to settings.json that allows for handling 404 errors, which in turn allows pretty url rewrites. See for more details:
https://code.google.com/p/phpdesktop/issues/detail?id=81#c10

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Oct 2014 at 12:07