[dba-VB] ASP.NET Redirect on 404 error

Hi Shamil

You did it again! This is, of course, how to do it, but what did I know as little as I have worked with ASP.NET.
The server runs ASP.NET 4.5, so System.Web.Routing it is extremely easy to configure in Global.asax at Application_Start:

protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
}

void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    // Register a route to handle all urls. 
    // The {*...} instructs the route to match all content after the first slash."
    routes.MapPageRoute(
        "CatchAll",             // Route name
        "{*MyKeys}",            // Route URL
        "~/Default.aspx"        // Web page to handle route
     );
}

Thanks for the head up!

/gustav

PS: Here is a brief, though good tutorial: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/012710-1.aspx

>>> Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> 26-09-12 23:16 >>>
Hi Gustav --

Just a note (I have no real life experience with cases as you have) - do you have ASP.NET routing enabled for your "human-friendly" URLs - the ones without .aspx extension?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3523264/asp-net-4-0-url-routing-http-error-404-0-not-found


Thank you.

-- Shamil


Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:55:40 +0200 от "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>:
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OK, I've made some progress - paying attention to Upper/lower case of Mode:
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<configuration>
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****<system.web>
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******<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5" />
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******<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />
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******<customErrors mode="On">
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********<error statusCode="404" redirect="Default.aspx" />
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******</customErrors>
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****</system.web>
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</configuration>
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Now a not-found page like:
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>www.example.com/somewrongpage.aspx
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is redirected. But:
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>www.example.com/somethingwrong
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still fails with 404.
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Any hints?
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/gustav
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>>> gustav at cactus.dk 26-09-12 17:43 >>>
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Hi all
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I have an extremely simple site, one page only: Default.aspx
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How can I in a simple way redirect all faulty URLs to this page? So that if the user types:
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>www.example.com/somethingwrong
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the error is trapped and the user gets:
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>www.example.com/Default.aspx
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I have this Web.config file which should do the job, but it doesn't:
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<configuration>
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****<system.web>
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******<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5" />
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******<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />
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******<customErrors Mode="On">
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********<error statusCode="404" redirect="Default.aspx" />
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******</customErrors>
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****</system.web>
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</configuration>
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Aside from this I can google many fancy solutions. Not needed. It just needs to call the default page.
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/gustav