Question

I am trying to serve a custom error page in an MVC2 app, which uses the ELMAH for error log (elmah)

I can’t seem to reference the page correctly.

The error page is located at ~/Views/Shared/Error.aspx

In the web.config :

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

But when I cause an error, expecting the error page, I get:

The resource cannot be found.
Requested URL: /Shared/Error.aspx

smae result even if I modify defaultRedirect to ~/Views/Shared/Error.aspx

What am I doing wrong ?

edit: I obviously don’t want to redirect to an action. I just want to display a static generic error page.

Answer 1

You should set defaultRedirect to the path of a route that renders your error page, e.g.

defaultRedirect="/home/error"

Or a static HTML error page, e.g.

defaultRedirect="/error.html"