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  Saavik

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  Where can I find documentation on IIS Express - especially...

  Feb 19, 2012 10:08 AM|LINK

  I am looking for documentation on IIS Express, specifically how to override the default 404 (not found) handling.  When 404 happens, I want to redirect to my own page and do some special handling there.
  I know this is possible in IIS 7 – is it possible also in IIS Express 7.5?  If so, how is that done?

  Help is MOST APPRECIATED.

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  Re: Where can I find documentation on IIS Express - especially...

  Feb 19, 2012 10:18 AM|LINK

  http://forums.iis.net/p/1153365/1886004.aspx

  http://blog.osbornm.com/archive/2011/05/27/asp.net-404-custom-errors-and-iis.aspx

  http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/defaultDocument

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  Re: Where can I find documentation on IIS Express - especially...

  Feb 19, 2012 03:10 PM|LINK

  Saavik

  When 404 happens, I want to redirect to my own page and do some special handling there.

  Hi,

  You can do it in the web.config file of your project. Edit the CustomErrors section as below.

  <configuration>
    <system.web>
      <customErrors defaultRedirect="yourDefaultErrorPage.htm" mode="On">
        <error statusCode="404" redirect="yourPageFor404.htm"/>
      </customErrors>
    </system.web>
  </configuration>

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  • Edited by Ruchira on Feb 19, 2012 03:11 PM
  • Edited by Ruchira on Feb 19, 2012 03:15 PM
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  Re: Where can I find documentation on IIS Express - especially...

  Feb 19, 2012 05:26 PM|LINK

  Thank you for your quick reply.
  I did exactly as you suggested.  Still getting the dreaded 404.0 error!  I put a debug breakpoint in my NotFound.aspx file and it never gets called!
  This works perfectly using the default Developer Web Server!

  Took out the CustomErrors section from web.config, and put in this section in ApplicationHost.Config:

  <httpErrors errorMode="Custom" existingResponse="Replace" defaultPath="~/ServerError.aspx">

  <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />

  <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/NotFound.aspx" responseMode="ExecuteURL"/>

  </httpErrors>

  Now I get the error  - cannot map path to '/'.

  Ideas are most appreciated.

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  • Edited by Saavik on Feb 20, 2012 03:41 AM
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  Re: Where can I find documentation on IIS Express - especially...

  Feb 20, 2012 04:07 AM|LINK

  Hello,

  Saavik

  This works perfectly using the default Developer Web Server!

  You mean Cassini (Visual studio default web server)? Then on what server it's not working?

  Saavik

  <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/NotFound.aspx" responseMode="ExecuteURL"/>

  You better give it with ~ infront of it. I think there is a path issue.

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  • Edited by Ruchira on Feb 20, 2012 05:23 AM
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  Saavik

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  Re: Where can I find documentation on IIS Express - especially...

  Feb 20, 2012 05:19 AM|LINK

  Thanks for your quick reply.

  This "version" of my many tries does not have ~ before the path, but, unfortunately, I have already tried it with ~ and the same error occurs.

  Thank you,
  
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  Saavik