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How do I configure ASP.NET to show a custom error page, but still return the correct statusCode (i.e.404).

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Add this line in you web.config file will do work

<customErrors> mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="ErrorPage.aspx" >
   <error statusCode="404" redirect="InternalError.htm"/>
</customErrors>

customErrors Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

Pranay Rana 2010-07-27 12:33:02

Thanks pranay. Unfortunately the problem still remains. ASP.NET sends a 302 responseCode, which lets the users browser redirect to the error page. I actually want a real 404 error code to be returned, but to still display the nice error page to the user.

willem 2010-07-27 12:40:23

just change status code to 302 will work for you but i think you find out y its returning 302

Pranay Rana 2010-07-27 12:53:16

Answer 2

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I have not tried this yet, but this page describes the exact issue and how to solve it. ASP.NET's way of returning 302's for error pages is a known SEO "issue".

http://weblogs.asp.net/paxer/archive/2010/05/31/asp-net-http-404-and-seo.aspx

willem 2010-07-28 04:59:21

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