404 Custom Error Pages

Question

How to create custom 404 error page?

Solution

• First Create a folder let say ErrorPages at the root of the site

• Add two ASPX pages let say Default.aspx and FileNotFound.aspx in this newly created ErrorPages folder.

• Specify the contents of the pages as per your requirments.

• Edit the web.config file and locate the <customErrors mode="Off" /> tag and make it look like as bellow

    <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="~/ErrorPages/Default.aspx">
      <error statusCode="404" redirect="~/ErrorPages/FileNotFound.aspx"/>
    </customErrors>