Question

I have the following values in my web.config:

<system.web> 
  <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly"
    defaultRedirect="/CARE/Home/Custom404">
    <error statusCode="404" redirect="/CARE/Home/custom404"/>
  </customErrors>
</system.web>


<system.webServer>
  <httpErrors errorMode="DetailedLocalOnly">
      <remove statusCode="404"/>
      <error statusCode="404" path="/CARE/Home/Custom404" responseMode="ExecuteURL"/>
  </httpErrors>
</system.webServer>

Works great for our 404 errors (Page Not Found), but for some reason, this is getting triggered when there is an error on the page.

Any ideas as to why?

Answer 1

This is because you have the defaultRedirect set to your 404 page.

As stated from msdn:

The DefaultRedirect specifies the generic error page to activate in case no error custom page exists.