How to set custom NotFound page in Google app engine

Question

I hosted my static web pages on Google App Engine (Java). It does not have any server side coding.

I used HTML5 Boilerplate code as my base. It has page called 404.html. I would like to show this 404.html page when there is page not found error.

How can I show a custom 404 page in Google App engine?

Peter Knego · Answer 1 · 2012-08-13T12:05:29.600

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You can set custom error responses in your app.yaml file.

edited Aug 13 '12 at 12:05

answered Aug 07 '12 at 05:52

Peter Knego

Thanks. I use Java(not python). Is it web.xml for java? Can you give sample file to configure 404 page? – Fizer Khan Aug 13 '12 at 11:42
You can not have a default error handler for custom HTTP error states, for example 404: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6774451/error-handlers-on-app-yaml – Peter Knego Aug 13 '12 at 12:09
If your app produces 404, then is it's responsibility to show error page instead. – Peter Knego Aug 13 '12 at 12:10
Thanks. I found it ` 404 /WEB-INF/jsp/errors/404.jsp ` – Fizer Khan Aug 17 '12 at 04:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '12 at 20:58

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In Java you can set up error handlers in your web.xml file (which is located in the app's WAR under the WEB-INF/ directory).

<error-page>
    <error-code>500</error-code>
    <location>/errors/servererror.jsp</location>
</error-page>

answered Sep 09 '12 at 20:58

Scott Bartell

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