Send any invalid url or any url that doesn't exists to a custom controller in asp.net mvc3?

Question

i am new in asp.net mvc3 . i am building my site in which i am facing a problem that i have a controller named Home and a method in it named Index and this index method takes a parameter id now according to this situation a valid url should be like this "http://www. counterexample.com/Home/Index/1" but what should i do if a user types a url like this "http://counterexample.com/whatsisthis" . It will definately give 404 error but i want to do that when any one types a URL like this he should be redirected to my another controller named Thunder on method ErrorDetails and all the character which user types in url after / should come to this method as parameter like following

 public class ThunderController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult ErrorDetails (string id)
    {
        var params = id ; // and the text "whatisthis" should store in param . 
        return View();
    }

}

Please note that user can type any url like

i want that all these URL or any URL that doesn't exists should redirect to my method 'ErrorDetails' . Thanks

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '12 at 07:15

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You can setup custom error on the web.config file.

<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" >
   <error statusCode="404" redirect="/Thunder/ErrorDetails/" />
 </customErrors>

Once 404 error was thrown, the user will be redirected to the ErrorDetails view.

answered Apr 26 '12 at 07:15

Pongsathon.keng

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your answer can solve my problem but i want to do this by routing in global.asax – Ahsan Apr 26 '12 at 07:18

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '12 at 07:13

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Use custom errors (web.config) like this:

<customErrors mode="On" >
   <error statusCode="404" redirect="/Thunder/ErrorDetails/" />
   <!-- You can add other error codes or a generic one for other status codes here -->
</customErrors>

answered Apr 26 '12 at 07:13

robasta

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i want to to this from global.asax . – Ahsan Apr 26 '12 at 07:14
take a look at this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/717628/asp-net-mvc-404-error-handling/9026907#9026907 – robasta Apr 26 '12 at 07:17

Send any invalid url or any url that doesn't exists to a custom controller in asp.net mvc3?

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