Creating a custom error page in Umbraco CMS

Question

I'm working on a client site who is using Umbraco as a CMS. I need to create a custom 404 error page. I've tried doing it in the IIS config but umbraco overrides that.

Does anyone know how to create a custom 404 error page in Umbraco? Is there a way to create a custom error page for runtime errors?

Answer 1

In /config/umbracoSettings.config modify <error404>1</error404> "1" with the id of the page you want to show.

<errors>
   <error404>1</error404> 
</errors>

Other ways to do it can be found at Not found handlers

Answer 2

As stated by other posters, modify the errors section as indicated (including culture if needed.) In addition, add the following in the web config to enable passthrough of errors to umbraco:

In /config/umbracoSettings.config (the file itself explains its usage):

<errors>
  <!-- the id of the page that should be shown if the page is not found -->
  <!--        <errorPage culture="default">1</errorPage>-->
  <!--        <errorPage culture="en-US">200</errorPage>-->
  <error404>2664</error404>
</errors>

In /web.config

<system.webServer>
  <!-- Some other existing stuff -->
  <httpErrors existingResponse="PassThrough" />
</system.webServer>

(Note: This is .NET 4)

Answer 3

umbraco also supports culture dependent error pages in case you're working with multilingual sites...

Config changes a tiny bit. Instead of

<errors>
  <error404>1050</error404>
</errors>

you'd now write

<errors>
  <errorPage culture="default">1</errorPage>-->
  <errorPage culture="en-US">200</errorPage>-->
</errors>

Cheers, /Dirk

Answer 4

First create an error page (and template) in your umbraco installation. Let us say error.aspx. Publish it. Then edit config/umbracoSettings.config.

Under <errors> section
    <error404>1111</error404>

Where 1111 is the umbraco node ID for the error.aspx page

Node ID can be found by hovering mouse on the error node in content section. It's usually a 4 digit number.

Then edit the web.config:

    In <appSettings> section
    change <customErrors mode as show below:
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="~/Error.aspx"/>