customizing 404 error page - HTML Forums

gibby · 03-10-2009, 11:59 AM

I'm trying to setup a custom 404 error page on my website, and I'm following this IIS 6.0 guide:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true

It tells me I can open the properties of my website, click on the custom errors tab, select the error I wish to customize (in this case, 404), and click edit.

From there, I'd like to set it to a URL. I would like to chose my home page so that when someone searches for, say, http://www.mm-theory.com/nofilehere, it redirects to http://www.mm-theory.com. The problem is that when I enter the full URL (http://www.mm-theory.com) it tells me:

"Wrong URL format. Please enter an absolute URL within the site."

It does this for any page within my site. I can't see how the URL I'm entering is not absolute, and all URLs I enter are indeed in my site.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

GameGodUK · 03-11-2009, 10:34 AM

i dont know exactly but have you tried
instead of (http://www.mm-theory.com)
try
(http://www.mm-theory.com/)

i dunno just a guess

gibby · 03-11-2009, 10:48 AM

Tried that. Didn't work. Thanks anyway.

Horus_Kol · 03-12-2009, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MS Website

In addition, the custom error URL must exist in the application pool that directs the request to the custom error URL.

I assume that you have that correct...

Just out of interest - if you create an actual file in your website and set that up, does that work? Perhaps there's a restriction on directories?