Displaying Custom Error Page for "The resource cannot be found" Error

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I am coding an application in ASP.NET.

I would like to know how I can display a custom error page in case the user types the address of a page which does not exist in my project. How can this be done please? Thanks :)

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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You need to handle server error with code 404. There is a plenty of examples over the web (one, two, three), but in short you can do this in web.config with the following section:

<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="~/Error.html">
    <error statusCode="404" redirect="~/Error404.html"/>
</customErrors>

where ~/Error.html and ~/Error404.html are general error page and page for "Resource cannot be found" case.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Jun 19 '13 at 13:37

Andrei

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I tried your solution but I must be missing something. Would you mind taking a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25798775/web-config-not-forwarding-to-404-error-page-on-non-aspx-pages . Thanks – JGallardo Sep 12 '14 at 00:59

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '13 at 13:38

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Add the above to your webconfig

<configuration>
 <system.web>
 <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" 
    defaultRedirect="~/ErrorPages/Error.aspx">
    <error statusCode="404" redirect="~/default.aspx"/>
   </customErrors>
 </system.web>

answered Jun 19 '13 at 13:38

kostas ch.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 19 '13 at 13:38

Take a look at the MSDN documentation page for the customErrors element of the web.config schema - the example provided is such:

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <customErrors defaultRedirect="GenericError.htm" mode="RemoteOnly">
      <error statusCode="500" redirect="InternalError.htm"/>
    </customErrors>
  </system.web>
</configuration>

Displaying Custom Error Page for "The resource cannot be found" Error

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