web.config 404 page is not executing

Question

I need to make simple 404 error pages which may have some server side code. for that i have made web.config file as below

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <add value="index.asp" />
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>
        <httpErrors errorMode="Custom" existingResponse="Replace" defaultResponseMode="ExecuteURL">
            <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
            <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="404.asp" />
        </httpErrors>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

and 404.asp page has following code

404 page   
<%=date%>

when i request non existing page then it shows output as

404 page
<%=date%>

the asp code is sent to browser directly without executing on server side

how can i avoid this

possible duplicate of [How to enable ASP classic in IIS7.5](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9072048/how-to-enable-asp-classic-in-iis7-5) — Shadow The GPT Wizard, Dec 07 '14 at 08:22
asp is enabled in iis and other pages are also executing it is error for that 404 page only — user3818826, Dec 08 '14 at 07:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '15 at 22:20

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change defaultResponseMode="ExecuteURL" to defaultResponseMode="Redirect". Also use an absolute URL instead of 404.asp (e.g. http://example.com/404.asp)

answered Feb 06 '15 at 22:20

Ali Sheikhpour

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