Setting up error pages

[Stuart Palmer]

Hi guys,

Not sure if this is an IIS query or ASP, however, I'll try here first.

I'm trying to create custom error pages where I can report to the user (and
email myself) when I get 404 errors. My problem isn't the asp code side (as
I have this working on my hosting companies server) but when I develop I
want to be able to have the same event occuring.

Basically I need to somehow set up or understand how my hosting companies
site provides a url that looks like
http://www.mydomain.com/errors/404.asp?404;http://www.mydomain.com/doesnotexist.asp

At the moment it just shows http://www.mydomain.com/errors/404.asp so I
can't pull out the error type and path to the file that doesn't exists.

Is this somehow done with asp? or a setting in IIS?
I have lookd on the web and found stuff about URL mapping but it mentioned
virtual directories and such which I don't have on my site.

Any comments on how this is achieved (either coding or how to set it up in
IIS) would be greatly appriciated.

Cheers
Stu

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[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Hi guys,

Not sure if this is an IIS query or ASP, however, I'll try here first.

I'm trying to create custom error pages where I can report to the
user (and email myself) when I get 404 errors. My problem isn't the asp
code
side (as I have this working on my hosting companies server) but when I
develop I want to be able to have the same event occuring.

Basically I need to somehow set up or understand how my hosting
companies site provides a url that looks like
http://www.mydomain.com/errors/404.asp?404;http://www.mydomain.com/doesnotexist.asp

At the moment it just shows http://www.mydomain.com/errors/404.asp so
I can't pull out the error type and path to the file that doesn't
exists.
Is this somehow done with asp? or a setting in IIS?
I have lookd on the web and found stuff about URL mapping but it
mentioned virtual directories and such which I don't have on my site.

Any comments on how this is achieved (either coding or how to set it
up in IIS) would be greatly appriciated.

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2162

 

[Stuart Palmer]

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2162

Thanks, I had already found this page but it doesn't actually do what i want
it to do (even though it does describe what I want). By clicking the 'Here
is an example' link, it just prvoides a url but doesn't actually give me the
querystring format I am after (?404 instead all it does is keep the url
selected but show the 404 page.

Could his be a setting in my browser? or do I need to add some code in my
404 to process it as I would expect?

Stu