Custom404page and Extensionless Url setting

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10/29/2013 1:55:32 PM
computer.eight
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Custom404page and Extensionless Url setting

I was to start out saying I'm not sure if this is a bug or just something I stumbled across with our sites.

I am running Mojoportal 2.3.9.4 on my local computer.

I start out by setting the <add key="Custom404Page" value="/PageNotFound.aspx" /> in my user.config so that any page someone tries to go to that is not a real page directs them to a styled page in place of the 404 error. How ever this only works if they are trying to go to a .aspx page (example: "parkinglot.aspx"). should they try and type in an address or be linked to an address that ends with out the ".aspx"(example: "parkinglot/" they will get a server error or in my case a "IIS 7.5 Detailed Error - 404.0 - Not Found" 

To correct this error I use the setting <add key="DetectPageNotFoundForExtensionlessUrls" value="true" /> also in my user.config. now when a user goes to a page that is not a real page if it ends in "/parkinglot.aspx" or just a word like "/parkinglot/" the user is directed to a styled page in place of the 404 error.

The problem happens once the new key is added, the "<add key="DetectPageNotFoundForExtensionlessUrls" value="true" />", you can no longer type "/admin/" after the root of the site(example: www.mojoportal.com/admin/) to get to the admin log in page or to the admin menu. 

My question is, should you still be able to get to the admin/ page when the <add key="DetectPageNotFoundForExtensionlessUrls" value="true" /> has been added to the user.config or was that functionality never intended?

 

10/29/2013 3:02:57 PM
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Re: Custom404page and Extensionless Url setting

In order to "bridge the gap" to show the 404 error for everything, not just the pages mojoPortal recognizes, you can make a modification to your web.config so that IIS will use PageNotFound.aspx for all incoming requests. It's commented out by default, because certain configurations/versions of IIS may have trouble with it. The section is near the bottom of web.config, and here is how we have it configured in our installation:

      <!-- Info about custom error configuration: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms690497.aspx
         It's commented out below, because by default IIS7 has this locked down at a parent config
         file, probably machine.config -->
      <!--
     <httpErrors errorMode="DetailedLocalOnly" defaultResponseMode="ExecuteURL" defaultPath="Error.htm">
     -->
        <httpErrors>
      <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
            <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/PageNotFound.aspx" responseMode="ExecuteURL"/>
    </httpErrors>

 

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