How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?

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re: How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?

imorrish — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:09:55 GMT

Here are the PowerShell caommands I used instead of having to compile a console app (step 5 in Jingmei’s blog).

PS C:\> [System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c")

PS C:\> $webapp = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication]::Lookup("http://www.wssdemo.com")

PS C:\> $webapp.FileNotFoundPage = "wssdemo404.html"

PS C:\> $webapp.Update()

Demo http://www.wssdemo.com/pages/deletedpage.aspx

MOSS Custom Error Page

Meron Fridman's Blog — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:54:11 GMT

Jingmei Li provides nice solution how to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in

re: How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?

joelo — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:53:56 GMT

There are other tricks to forcing yout custom 404 to show up. The logic is that the 404 needs enough text to be considered a good 404 page by IE. Add more text to your 404 and it will come up.

re: How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?

bernadou — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:35:31 GMT

Very nice article.

I'm curious why one can't use a .aspx file? The HTML file contains JS which can easily be turned off, and, so can META refreshes.

Like:

webApplication.FileNotFoundPage = "my404.aspx";

Assuming the file is in the /_layouts VD?

Seems like it 'should' work, but, it doesn't as you pointed out.

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re: How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?

JamCo — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:03:51 GMT

imorrish: Thank you! I don't have an extra server license and studio license just sitting around for sharepoint so there is no way to compile a console app. PowerShell worked awesome!

I wonder though, why not make an ASPX script that references the assembly and makes the required call to SPWebApplication? That way you need not compile a console application or install PowerShell.

re: How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?

lenc — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:41:51 GMT

Does this work for content not found in the _layouts directory? For pages not found in _layouts, we either get a sharepoint page saying "Error" and a link to "TroubleShoot issues with SharePoint Services". We don't want to show that - it's an internet facing custom Portal.

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re: How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?

RobRoach — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:41:31 GMT

In my testing it appears that the webApplication.FileNotFoundPage is set when the web apps top level site is a team site, but is not set (or turned off by publishing?) when the top level site is a publishing site. Can anyone confirm that this is correct or just my local machine issue?

Thanks

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Does not work, which is really weird

AllTheGoodNamesAreInUse — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:10:39 GMT

So, I copied the original file to a new one.

Calle NEW404.html, in the same layouts \1033 as the sps404.html.

Then I just changed the redirect to point to _layouts/myredirect/myredirectp.asx?oldurl=....

Then I used powershell to set the value as per the post above.

Then when I try a nonexistent url, I get a popup window in IE stating "Invalid page url".

If I use the same powershell to do $webapp.FileNotFoundPage="sps404.html" and then run $webapp.Update(), it works just fine.

So, if I place my custom code in the sps404 file it work like a charm.

And if I place the same code in my own file, it does not work.

Does anyone have any ideas where to look for the issue here?

I did check the logs and they just show that I have requested a nonexistent url, and in the error case it goes to the moss site frontpage and shows all normal 200 resultant stuff.

And in the working case I see a 302, and it shows my browser has requested the correct myredirect.aspx stuff.

Darn.

re: How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?

Gangadhar Kotu — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:25:49 GMT

Good post and very much useful

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re: How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?

nauman_ahmed — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:34:50 GMT

An easier approach for a MOSS Internet web site would be:

1. Create a new error page using any page layout say WebError.aspx (http://www.yourapplication/Pages/WebError.aspx)

2. Modify web.config and set the error redirect page URL to the above Page.

3. Add code to Application_Error event in global.asax for additional error handling.

--Nauman.