ASP.NET MVC 4 - Exception Handling Not Working

Question

When an error occurs in my ASP.NET MVC 4 application, I would like to customize a view for the user depending on the type of error. For example, page not found or an except

Answer 1

Try adding the following attribute to the customErrors tag:

defaultRedirect="Error"

This explicitly defines to which view MVC should redirect the user when the error is thrown and no view is specified by default in the attribute. This will of course only work if Error.cshtml exists in the Shared views folder.