When Tomcat starts it calls my ServletContextListener to obtain a database connection, which I will later use in other servlets with getServletContext(). It is called in my web.xml as:
listener
listener-class org.ppdc.database.DBCPoolingListener /listener-class
/listener> (I removed the < > because they wouldn't display properly in this message.>
If I cannot connect to the database when Tomcat starts up I get a 404 error, because Tomcat cannot start the application.

How can I redirect the user to a custom error page at this point? I tried the following in my web.xml (I have the < > brackets in the original):
(error-page)
(error-code404/error-code)
(location/file_not_found.html/location)
(/error-page)

Any ideas on how to redirect a user to one of my error pages when Tomcat tries to start the application?

Thanks Vic