I created a IIS website about a year and a half ago with a lot of pictures on various aspx/asp tabbed pages. My development PC is Windows 8.1 Pro with IIS version 8.5.9600.16384 website. The website was developed using Visual Studio 2012. The website was published onto the same Windows PC.
I am trying to make a custom HTTP 404 error page when someone types in a URL
that doesn’t invoke a valid action or controller in ASP.NET MVC, instead of it displaying the generic “Resource Not Found” ASP.NET error.
I’m trying to determine the best way to implement a 404 page in a standard ASP.NET web application. I currently catch 404 errors in the Application_Error event in the Global.asax file and redirect to a friendly 404.aspx page. The problem is that the request sees a 302 redirect followed by a 404 page missing. Is there a way to bypass the redirect and respond with an immediate 404 containing the friendly error message?
After trying to setup my site for Google Webmaster Tools I found that my Custom ASP.NET 404 page was not returning the 404 status code. It displayed the correct custom page and told the browser that everything is OK. This is consider a soft 404 or false 404. Google doesn’t like this. So I found many articles on the issue but the solution I want didn’t seem to work.
If given the route:
I have an .aspx page as my custom 404 page on a site set up on IIS 7. I need to retrieve the original URL that the user was trying to access in order to do some processing on the 404 page. The trick is that I need to specifically handle 404’s that do not contain a .aspx extension (e.g http://example.com/testurl), which do not get routed through ASP.NET’s custom errors section. I can configure IIS to point to my custom 404, but at that point I do not know how to get my original URL? Does anyone know if this is possible?
I’m trying to verify the existence of a Url using HttpWebRequest. I found a few examples that do basically this:
I moved from IIS 6 on windows server 2003.
I set up 404 handler page in web.config, but it works ONLY when extension of URL is .aspx (or other which is handled by ASP.NET).
I know I can setup static HTML page in website options, but I want to have a page.
Is there any options to assign ASPX handler page for all request extensions in IIS?
This question is related to this, hopefully better phrased.