How can I display a custom errorPage and still return 404

Question

There is a routing table that includes

 routes.MapRoute("404-PageNotFound", "{*url}", new { controller = "Error", action = "PageNotFound" });

The web.config has:

<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly">        
   <error statusCode="404" redirect="/Error/PageNotFound" />
</customErrors>

The ErrorController gets hit when no Route Matches and the View for errors get rendered using:

public ActionResult PageNotFound(ViewModelBase model)
 {
     return View(model);
}

The status code for the response is 200, but in this case a 404 is required. Is there a way to return http code 404 and a custome errorpage?

Darin Dimitrov · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-17 17:09:23Z

5

public ActionResult PageNotFound(ViewModelBase model)
{
    Response.StatusCode = 404;
    return View(model);
}

answered Sep 17, 2012 at 17:09

Darin Dimitrov

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