Re: Bugzilla.gnome.org Apache configuration change

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Olav Vitters wrote:

> While Bugzilla is being upgraded I want to show a nice document. As
> I'll be using 'deny from all' to restrict access to bugzilla.gnome.org,
> I'd like the following Apache configuration change for
> bugzilla.gnome.org (not bugzilla-test):
>
>   ErrorDocument 403 403.html
>
> This should allow me to provide a custom error message in the 403.html
> document. See for the ErrorDocument documentation:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument
>
> 'deny from all' is the best option as I have to make sure no-one
> accesses Bugzilla during the upgrade.
>
>  
From previous experience, you stand a good chance of getting something 
along the lines of:

"403 Access Denied.
You do not have priviledges to access that page. In addition, a 403 
Access Denied error was encountered when attempting to use an error 
document to handle the request."
(because you don't have access to the error document).

However, you should be able to implement this in .htaccess, without 
needing a main Apache conf file change?

Good luck with the upgrade btw; I'm glad it's not me this time, and 
under much happier circumstances than the last upgrade :-)

--
Andrew