Application Server Redirect one Application to a static web page

Question

We have an OAS installation that contains two applications. One contains both Portal and Oracle Forms components whilst the second is purely Oracle Forms. We want to redirect users to a static web page if an application is down for maintainance.
It has been easy to modify httpd.conf to add lines to redirect the elements of the application that uses portal. The elements that use Oracle forms seem to use MOD_OC4J and I cannot redirect calls to these forms.
I have tried a redirect based on /forms/frmservlet?config=app1 but this did not work as /form/servlet requests are handled by redirecting to MOD_OC4J.
Looking in Forms.Conf I found some lines where the frmservlet is mapped:
AliasMatch ^/forms/frmservlet(.*) "/servlet.frm"
Would it be possible to create regular expressions to either allow all /forms/frmservlet?config=XXXX through except for app1 as an example? The plan would be to comment these lines out until required and then activate them by removing the comment # and bouncing the Forms element of OAS.
If this idea is not reasonable could anyone suggest a better way that does not require connection to the database nor the need to start up the forms runtime within the client browser?

Answer 1

<cflocation> will always give you that result, as it
has no concept of the browser window(s) or frame(s).
i don't know if the <meta> has a concept of frames or
not.
you could always use a JavaScript solution, which would be:
new window:
<script type="text/javascript">
<cfoutput>window.open("#newURL#");</cfoutput>
</script>
same window, breaking frameset:
<script type="text/javascript">
<cfoutput>top.location.href="#newURL#";</cfoutput>
</script>
i think that'll do it. been a while :)