Dealing with 404.0 subStatusCode's within the Web.config?

[none]

All,
I was wondering is their a way of dealing with subStatusCode's with in the
webconfig file? I unfortunately don't have access to anything other then
webconfig and qould perfer to set in code rater then my webhost's control
panel.

I've even tried:

<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="/pages/error.aspx" />

aspx pages are handled but but I still have a problem if the user types in
..asp .htm etc by mistake. Thanks in advance. - CES

 

[George]

As of right now you can not...

Problem is that web.config only kicks in when ASP.NET engine is called by
IIS. And ASP.NET engine is called only when extension (such as .aspx, .asmx,
....) associated with ASP.NET is requested.

So solution is
Associate all extensions with ASP.NET but be careful cause then my.gif will
be redirected to ASP.NET instead of sending image to the browser
Or you can make custom 404 page with .aspx extension (for example
missing.aspx) . Then IIS will redirect for any 404 request to missing.aspx
and ASP.NET will kick in and you can do anything you want. But be careful
again since any missing.gif will be redirected to ASP.NET then.

George.

 

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

I agree with George,

For the case that user types an incorrect url(invalid one), the ASP.NET
custom error section will not be able to catch that. It is not due to
ASP.NET doesn't take care of it, but it doesn't even have a chance to get
notice of such kind of error. This type of error is at first chance
detected and handled by the webserver(such as IIS) and ASP.NET runtime
doesn't even have idea that such kind of error ever happened.

If you need to handle all such kind of errors, it is necessary to configure
the IIS metabase for to customize the custom error setting of virtual
directory.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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