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Asked: 2026-05-20T04:41:04+00:00

I am trying to get an ASP.Net MVC2 app to display a simple custom

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I am trying to get an ASP.Net MVC2 app to display a simple custom error rather than the yellow screen. I have already set up elmah to silently log the error in the background but while that happens I want to display a simple static error message based on the view in Shared/Error.aspx. Nothing fancy, just a plain vanilla “there was an error”. 

<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="~/Error.aspx" />

I thought this was simply a matter of adding a customError tag to my config but I am still seeing the yellow page. Do I have to write a custom action handler for the Error.aspx view before I can use it? Could this be due to some interaction with elmah?

Thanks!
Duffy

Update: It seems that the problem is NInject getting in the way of handling a static error page. The yellow sceen error I am seeing is not for the original error message but the NInject Factory not finding a controller for error.aspx.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I still have no idea why failed to find my static error files. However, I finally got around the problem by defining an error controller and changing my web.config to this instead. 

     <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="/Error/GenericError" />
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