Deactivate Jetty's default 404 error handler

Question

I want to provide a custom 404 error page in my Spring 3.1 web application, but I cannot deactivate Jetty 8\'s default 404 error page.

Jetty 8, out of the box, provi

Answer 1

The solution to my problem was to add a custom org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ErrorHandler.

If a user doesn't explicitly specify some ErrorHandler, the Jetty server instance seems to register a default ErrorHandler.

As outlined on http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/custom-error-pages.html, to register a custom ErrorHandler, you can follow the following steps.

1. Implement some org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ErrorHandler subclass, e.g. com.example.CustomErrorHandler.
2. Make this subclass available to your Eclipse server instance, e.g. by bundling CustomErrorHandler in a jar file and then copying that jar file into the ${jetty.base}/lib/ext directory.
3. Configure your Jetty server instance to have this custom ErrorHandler registered as a bean:

file jetty.xml: