IIS custom errors not showing custom error page

Question

I have custom error pages setup on an ASP.NET website.

There is one error that is not showing a custom error page, and just showing the usual yellow ASP.NET error page. If custom errors are turned on it shows "Server error in / application" / "Runtime error", but if custom errors are off it shows "validation of viewstate mac failed" error.

The relevant parts of my web.config are:

<system.web>
  <compilation debug="false" targetFramework="4.0" />
    <customErrors mode="On" redirectMode="ResponseRewrite">
      <error statusCode="404" redirect="/404.aspx" />
      <error statusCode="500" redirect="/500.aspx" />
    </customErrors>

<system.webServer>
  <httpErrors errorMode="DetailedLocalOnly" />

To trap for this error do I have to use a different status code or substatuscode or is there something else?

NB. Server 2008 R2, IIS 7.

CustomErrors has a defaultRedirect attribute. Try setting that to your 500.aspx as well. — Mark
– Mark, Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 10:23
Hi @Mark, I did try that but it did not make any difference. Thanks. — johna
– johna, Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 19:16
It's actually the last line with DetailedLocalOnly which is preventing your custom page being shown. — Marc
– Marc, Commented Jun 8, 2017 at 9:01

johna · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 19:56:19Z

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After further research I see that this means that IIS is displaying the error rather than ASP.NET.

I changed the system.webServer part of my web.config so IIS can also use the custom error page and that has solved the problem.

<system.webServer>
  <httpErrors errorMode="Custom" existingResponse="Replace">
    <remove statusCode="500" subStatusCode="-1" />
    <error statusCode="500" subStatusCode="-1" responseMode="ExecuteURL" path="/500.aspx" />
  </httpErrors>

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 19:56

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2 Comments

Ramakrishna Over a year ago

I got the same problem while implemented "Owin" Middleware

Shad Over a year ago

"After further research I see that this means that IIS is displaying the error rather than ASP.NET." Can you share the source?

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