How to create custom error page for 401 in MVC

Question

Hi. I've been facing this issue so long and tried almost everything but couldn't get what I want.

I want to display an custom error page for code 401 , if the user is not authorized to view any particular part of my webApplication. Kindly solve my problem.

What I have tried:

This is my web.config file:

<customErrors mode="On">
<error statusCode="404" redirect="~/Error/NotFound"/>
<error statusCode="401" redirect="~/Home/SecureMethod"/>

This is My Controller:

[HandleError]
public class HomeController : Controller
{

[Authorize]
public ActionResult SecureMethod()
{

return View();
}

[AllowAnonymous]
public ActionResult NonSecureMethod()
{
return View();
}

I have also enabled the Windows Authentication and Anonymous Authentication on IIS Server

Catcher Wong · Answer

@Rohit When you use the customErrors  the 401(UnAuthenticated) will not take effect !! You can try this way to solve your problem! Add this code in your Global.asax.cs public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication { protected void Application_Start() { AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas(); FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters); RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes); BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles); } protected void Application_EndRequest() { var context = new HttpContextWrapper(Context); if (context.Response.StatusCode == 401 ) { context.Response.Redirect( ~/Error/Page401 ); } } } After you add the above code . When you visit the below action  you will go to this page /Error/Page401 [Authorize] public ActionResult Test1() { return Content( test1 --- Authorize ); } Hope this can help you !

arvind baldaniya · Answer

public ActionResult PageNotFound() { var statusCode = (int)System.Net.HttpStatusCode.NotFound; Response.StatusCode = statusCode; Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors = true; HttpContext.Response.StatusCode = statusCode; HttpContext.Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors = true; string ErrorUrl = string.Empty; if (!Request.CurrentExecutionFilePath.Contains(/error/page-not-found)) { ErrorUrl = Request.CurrentExecutionFilePath.ToString(); } else if (Request.UrlReferrer != null && Request.UrlReferrer.AbsolutePath != null) { ErrorUrl = Request.UrlReferrer.AbsolutePath.ToString(); } if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ErrorUrl)) { string Subject = Page Not Found 404 on Yoursitename.com; } return View(~/Views/controllername/Pagename.cshtml); }