MVC 6 404 Not Found

Question

Instead of getting a HTTP 404 response, I\'d like to have a generic 404 Not Found page (HTTP 200). I know you can set that up in MVC 5 with

Answer 1

If anyone is looking to create custom 404 pages with HTML, you can do this:

Startup.cs

public class Startup
{
    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
    {        
        app.UseStatusCodePagesWithReExecute("/errors/{0}");
    }
}

project.json

"dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Diagnostics": "1.0.0-*",
    // ....
}

ErrorsController.cs

public class ErrorsController : Controller
{
    // ....

    [Route("/Error/{statusCode}")]
    public IActionResult ErrorRoute(string statusCode)
    {
        if (statusCode == "500" | statusCode == "404")
        {
            return View(statusCode);
        }

        return View("~/Views/Errors/Default.cshtml");
    }
}

All that's left after this is to create a 404.cshtml, 500.cshtml, and Default.cshtml in your Errors view folder and customize the HTML to your liking.