What causes a 404 response on a SharePoint website?
No matter if the non-existing URL is caused by wrong page name or a faulty extension the HTTP Module will intercept the 404 response and will display your custom ‘Page not found’ page with the 404 response code – exactly as you would expect it to work. Liked this article?
How to create a custom 404 page in SharePoint?
I want to configure a custom 404 page for my SharePoint 2010 environment. My first task was to create a custom 404 page (htm). and save it under c:\\inetpub\\custerr\\en-US\\404Custom.htm After this I edited the 404 entry from my IIS (Picture) and run a iisreset.
When to use custom 404 Page Not Found error page?
Its a best practice to show customized 404 page not found error page for any website when user request for a broken URL or mistyped URLs. SharePoint has no exclusions. By default, SharePoint gives this 404 error screen to the user:
How to deploy a custom error page in SharePoint?
You could use a feature receiver to deploy a custom error page into the SharePoint root folder (e.g. 14\\TEMPLATE\\LAYOUTS\\1033\\customerrorpage.html), then update the SPWebApplication.FileNotFoundPage property with a relative path to your file. Using the feature you could then turn the capability on and off.
Recently I’ve done some research on custom 404 pages in SharePoint 2010 and found out that all you need to have to create a proper 404 page are a custom HTTP Module, a Publishing Page and a custom Web Part. Here is how it works. First you create a custom HTTP Module which will intercept all 404 responses:
How to avoid page not found in SharePoint?
First you create a custom HTTP Module which will intercept all 404 responses: This module checks if the response status code is 404 and the URL is different than the URL of the ‘Page not found’ page. If that is the case the request is being transferred to the ‘Page not found’ page.
What does Page Not Found ( 404 ) mean?
‘Page not found (404)’ pages are one of those things that no one wants to see but we all need it. No matter how hard you will try and how often you will verify your content for dead links, it’s just a matter of time before someone mistypes the URL.