Custom 404 Page

[Matt]

I notice that when you have the defualt setup of 404 error
pages the IIS 5.0 log tracks the page the user was trying
to get to and the page they where at when they tryed to
get to the now missing page. I recently wrote my own 404
error page to make it match my site but when I set IIS to
use my custom page it no longer traks the page that the
user was trying to get. I was told I needed to add some
code to my page to fix this, but I don't know what code to
add. Can someone tell me? (I am useing ASP on the custom
404 error page) I am returning a 404 error response,
everything works fine it is just that IIS does not log
what page the user was trying to get to.

 

[IPT]

Make sure your 404 custom page is .asp and inside you script, you use this
code:
Response.Write Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")

This should work.

 

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

http://www.aspfaq.com/2162

 

[Matt]

It is a .asp page and a response.write writes info to the
screen, I need it written to the server log.

 

[Matt]

That FAQ has nothing to do with written information to the
log. That just the info to the web page, I need the log

 

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

That FAQ has nothing to do with written information to the

log.

You seemed to talk a lot about 404 and very little about the log. You will
need extended permissions to write to the event log from ASP (why not just
keep your own log, like the article does)?

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group:*asp*+write+event+log

 

[Guest]

I talked about both things, if you read my post you will
see I tell you how my 404 \page is being done (using ASP
and returning a 404 error rsponse) and that the issues is
some info is not being written to the log. I can't keep my
own log since my web site stats porgame reads from the iis
log. I looked at the link you gave me but it talks about
writting to the event log using com objects, axtivex
controlls, and full VB code none of which I know. Plus I
need to write to the IIS log not the windows event log
(which, from what my host tells me, are two differant
things). Can you tell me how to write to the IIS log the
information I am missing (the page the user was trying to
get to when they got the 404 error)