Generating useful error pages with Pound

Posted by Tristan Waddington on Mar 18, 2009 in Blog, Computers, Featured | 0 comments

We use Pound as a reverse-proxy and loud-balancing frontend to our web cluster here in the office. Today we had some NAT problems with our proxy server and ended up with some server downtime. Pound defaults to outputting a cryptic error message when it can’t reach a valid host: The service is not available. Please try again later. This isn’t very helpful to clients who probably have...