Question

Hi if a request from my website is containing some errors(database linking errors) then asp.net host server error page is displaying but i want to avoid the error page and i hav to display my own custom designed error page instead.

Answer 1

Add the customErrors element as shown below to your web.config file in the appropriate place:

<configuration>
    ...

    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="~/ErrorPages/Oops.aspx" />

        ...
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Setting the mode attribute to On ensures that the error page is shown to everybody. You can set the attribute to RemoteOnly if you want to show the error page to remote users only; local users will then see the error page containing the exception details instead, which may simplify development.

If you want to read more about this subject, I’d recommend to have a look at the following article from the official ASP.NET site: Displaying a Custom Error Page