Error Mapping Properties -- URL option missing

[Paxxer]

Hi all,

I'm working on setting custom errors on my website.

I go to my website in the IIS MMC, to the "Custom Errors" tab in it's properties window.

From there I select One of the Error codes, any of them, it doesn't matter -- click edit properties.

Under "Message Type:" -- the drop down list only contains [Default or File], I expect to see URL but it is not there?

Why isn't URL listed as an option?

Thanks
Tom

[Paxxer]

Here's a screen shot of what I'm talking about!

The drop down has Default, File, but no URL..

[Paxxer]

I found the solution!

1) I went to another server with a new web application on it.
2) I wanted to confirm that the URL option was there on that server, and that something was amiss with the server I was working on
3) When I opened the Error Mapping Properties for the 403.x error, only the Default and File options were present on this other server.. hmmm
4) So I figured, this can't be, as I couldn't find anything on the Web about this issue.
5) So I did the user click click click on the other codes, in higher numbers, and after a couple clicks there was the URL option.
6) I went back to the 403.x and sure enough the URL option came up.

Came back to the original server,did the same, sure enough there was the URL option.

Thanks to all who looked at this note.
Tom

[btaylor]

I had the same problem but the solution that Paxxer describes above did not work for me. I was experiencing this problem in IIS5 on windows XP. I managed to work around the issue by downloading the iis6 manager which is available for XP and using that to set the custom errors on my local IIS5 install. Hope this information helps.

[vRaghavan]

Thanks btaylor,
Your solution worked. Spot on! Thanks.