How to create custom error page for 401 in MVC

Rohit Singh

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:

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

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Catcher Wong9y ago
Accepted 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 !
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arvind baldaniya9y ago
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");
}
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