Morning and thanks for reading.
I have created a MOSS content page for my custom 404 'page not found' error page but it isn't working as intended. This is what I did:
1. Made a virtual directory in the root site in IIS with aspx page that redirects to the custom MOSS 404 custom error page that I made
2. made a copy of sps404.htm in the 12 Hive called redirect404.htm.
3. edited redirect404.htm to redirect to the page in the virtual directory (I did this because I couldn't work out how or if I could make redirect404.htm point straight to a content page - it only seems to work with the root site or an html page in
_layouts.)
4. Written and run a console application to tell MOSS to use redirect404.htm instead of sps404.html in the event of a 404
5. IISreset
When I test my site, it is giving the standard 404 page when I enter a misspelled address. I know that the console application works because i can revert to sps404.htm, which this shows the requested url and the page url in the address bar. When I set it
it to my redirect404.htm, it doesn't.
My question is, do I need to make any further changes? What is missing from my steps that I need to do to get it working? Do I need to change settings in the web.config? E.g. customerrors = On or Off?
I hope someone has a flash of inspiration for me!
Thank you.
