I created a couple of error pages, one general and another to catch the page not found 404 error - ~/Errors/Error.aspx & Error404.aspx then added the relevant element in Web.config:

<system.web>
<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="~/Errors/Error.aspx" redirectMode="ResponseRewrite">
<error statusCode="404" redirect="~/Errors/Error404.aspx"/>
</customErrors>
....

But in testing my 404 error page doesnt come up when I try to navigate to an incorrect page, have I missed somthing here?

Can you request the full URL of the error page in the browser directly?

Imar

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In that case you need to supply more information. Where do you see this problem? In IIS? In the local development server? Have you tried to use Fiddler and see what status code it gives you?

And what do you see when you request a non-existing page?

Imar

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