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Jarl
Asked: 2012-08-31 21:43:41 +0800 CST

How can I configure apache to send an email on every HTTP error 500

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I have some server applications running on apache2; Ruby on Rails, PHP and others.

In all cases I would like apache to send me an email whenever apache responds a HTTP error 500 Internal server error.

How can I do that?

apache-2.2

2 Answers

  1. You can create a custom 500 file. Assuming you are using Apache you would add the following line to your .htaccess

    ErrorDocument 500 /errorfilename.php

    This code basically tells the server that if a user encounters a 500(internal server error) Error to display errorfilename.php.

    In this PHP file you can add code to email you when a user gets to the 500.

    <?php
//this is the 500 error php file
mail([email protected],500 error encountered,'message here');
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>500</title>
<body>
500 internal server error
The administrator has been notified
<a href="index.php">Go to Homepage</a>
</body>
</html>
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  2. You can use the ErrorDocument directive to deliver a custom error message, and make that file a script that sends the e-mail. Alternatively, write the error page so that it writes a file with whatever information you want and set up a cron job to mail these files to you.

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