Apache tomcat <error-page> tag in conf/web.xml not rendering an error page

Question

In /conf/web.xml I've mentioned an tag as follows:

 <error-page>
    <exception-type>401</exception-type>
    <location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
    <exception-type>403</exception-type>
    <location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
    <exception-type>404</exception-type>
    <location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
    <error-code>500</error-code>
    <location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
    <exception-type>java.lang.Exception</exception-type>
    <location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>

before this I also mentioned just

<error-page>
    <exception-type>404</exception-type>
    <location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>

but it's still rendering the same default page of tomcat instead of the custom "error.jsp" page. I'm stuck in the problem since last 13 hours.

Did you stop and restart Tomcat?

Jim Garrison
– Jim Garrison

2018-01-17 05:10:16 +00:00
Commented Jan 17, 2018 at 5:10 — Jim Garrison
– Jim Garrison, Commented Jan 17, 2018 at 5:10

swayamraina · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-17 05:25:23Z

2

Try using error-code instead of exception-type

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

edited Jan 17, 2018 at 5:25

answered Jan 17, 2018 at 5:13

swayamraina

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Paritosh Pandey Over a year ago

Thanks for the reply. Actually I've kept the page "error.jsp" inside the /conf directly and it is not getting rendered. Can you please tell me where should I keep my error.jsp so that it gets rendered when 404(page is not found)

swayamraina Over a year ago

is the url updating?

Paritosh Pandey Over a year ago

Now its working fine. Actually we have to place the error.jsp inside the ROOT directory of tomcat. Thanks for ur responses. I made a silly mistake of using <exception-type> in place of <error-code>. Thanks

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