Hey Camron,

I'm pretty sure you would have to add your own HTTPhandler to accomplish this, shouldn't be too tricky.

Maybe download the uComponents source and have a look at the source for http://ucomponents.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=SearchForPageNotFound

Rich

or write your own custom 404 handler something like this... (http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/how-to-implement-your-own-404-handler was were I got the inspiration)

NB untested code below...

public class Custom404Redirect : INotFoundHandler
    {
        #region INotFoundHandler Members

        public bool CacheUrl
        {
            get
            {
                return false;
            }
        }

        public bool Execute(string url)
        {
            // add entry to the log for debug purposes.
            umbraco.BusinessLogic.Log.Add(umbraco.BusinessLogic.LogTypes.NotFound, _redirectID, "404 Redirect - " + HttpContext.Current.Request.Url);

            // can set as a 301 or anything else depending on what you want

            //HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";

// might need to revisit this to your own requirements.
            HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Location", "WWW.DOMAIN2.COM/"+HttpContext.Current.Request.Url);

            return true;
        }

        #endregion
    }

and add to the 404handlers.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<NotFoundHandlers>

...other handlers...
  <notFound assembly="XXX" type="Custom404" />

.. leave the umbraco custom handler to catch all
    <notFound assembly="umbraco" type="handle404"/>
</NotFoundHandlers>

Hi Camron

I'm not sure but maybe you could add a rewriting rule in the UrlRewriting.config file, which is found in the "config" folder? I'm not expert with url rewriting at all just thought that I would mention that it might be possible?

/Jan

Thanks everyone for your replies. I ended up writing my own 404 handler implementing the INotFoundHandler like Mike and Rich suggested, which was pretty slick and easy.

Hi There Camron. I'm having a similar senario, would like to redirect to an external domain via 404 handler. What did you set the _redirectID? Generally my handler is working if i redirect to an node within the umbraco, but can't get it working for an external 301 with no redirect id.

This is what i've used:

HttpContext.Current.Response.StatusCode = 301;

  HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";

// might need to revisit this to your own requirements.
        HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Location", "WWW.DOMAIN2.COM/somepage");

            return true;

Any luck?

Thanks.

Bit of a bump here, I too have a similar issue. If the domain is not in my host names I would like to show a 404, can anyone please advise on how to do this?

Thanks

Scott

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