Question

Problem

Currently, I’m looking to serve a custom 500 error page as well as log and alert a web master about the condition that was hit (What URL, stack trace, timestamp, etc.).

I tried defined custom http errors under system configuration, but the error pages were not hit.
I am able to handle 404s and their related errors (layoutnotfound).

Question

Should I intercept the context in global.asax to handle the 500 errors and return a custom page? Is there another way with Sitecore to achieve what I’m looking for?

Mainly, I’m looking for best practice of logging / alerts for 500 errors with Sitecore

Answer 1

Try using ELMAH.

Here is an article on using it with Sitecore.