As I recreated a production environment on my local development platform, a requirement was to assign a custom 404 Error Page. The web server is IIS (Internet Information Services) 7 on production and development.
In IIS Manager, I’d click the website name, double-click the “Error Pages” icon and then double-click the 404 Status Code row. I would change the “Execute a URL on this site” value for the URL to the 404 ColdFusion page I needed. This exactly replicates what I saw on production.
However, when I would go to the URL I had binded to the site (http://mysite.local), the default IIS error page would show. I checked, rechecked and re-verified the settings to no avail. Then I noticed this “Edit Feature Settings…” link under the Actions menu on the right of the Error Pages page. This is where I found my solution.
Apparently you can get different error displays if you are locally browsing the site as opposed to normal (remote) traffic. Here’s the fix:
- Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
- Click your website name
- Double-click the “Error Pages” icon
- Click the “Edit Feature Settings…” link under Actions on the right column
- Change the “Error Responses” value to “Custom error pages” (the default is Detailed errors for local requests and custom error pages for remote requests)
Chris Tierney 