Question

i have the following piece of code my my web.config:

<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="~/Exception.aspx" enableVersionHeader="false">
      <error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm"/>
      <error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm"/>
    </customErrors> 

so, as far as i understand it should be redirecting me to an Exception.aspx page whenever there’s an error
however, when i try to test this by putting in some bad parameters in the url, i get the following message:

Runtime Error

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current
custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the
application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons).
It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server
machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be
viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within
a “web.config” configuration file located in the root directory of the
current web application. This tag should then have its
“mode” attribute set to “Off”.

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a
custom error page by modifying the “defaultRedirect” attribute of the
application’s configuration tag to point to a custom
error page URL.

did i miss something? i thought it would redirect me to the error page i created?

Answer 1

Something was wrong with the config and I had to delete and retype the statement to get it to work. Very strange!