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azam
azam

Reputation: 442

Stopping IIS 7.5 from passing non-existent pages to Coldfusion

Coldfusion is currently handling *.cfm and *.html pages. If I request a non-existing page, such as www.example.com/sadfasdfasd.cfm, IIS still passes the request off to the Coldfusion handler instead of directing to the IIS 404 error page. The Coldfusion handler responds with the Debugger page stating that the file is not found. How can I get IIS to check if a file exists before passing it to the handler. If it doesn't exist, I'd like it to display the 404 error page. Currently my error pages are setup to provide detailed errors for both local and remote.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 787

Answers (2)

CfSimplicity
CfSimplicity

Reputation: 2363

Try adding an httpErrors entry to your root web.config file as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
    <httpErrors errorMode="Custom">
            <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
            <error statusCode="404" path="404.html" responseMode="File" />
        </httpErrors>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Your custom 404.html page should also reside in the root folder.

Upvotes: 1

steve
steve

Reputation: 1490

If you go into IIS and turn off detailed error messages, it will display the IIS error rather than letting coldfusion handle it.

If you have access to the IIS Manager, go to the site > Error pages > "edit feature" on the right side. There is probably equivalent code you can put into your web.config file to handle this too.

You can choose any of the other options depending on your needs.

Please note this is also the feature that allows you to see the coldfusion errors from coldfusion's debugger.

Upvotes: 1

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