Custom 404 Page Problem -CF 8

[weezerboy]

I'm having problems with a custom 404 page. CF8

I have create a page 404.cfm that I want users to see if they get a 404 error.

I changed the custom 404 page in the CF admin and this custom page works well when the page is an htm page.

But does not work when the page is a cfm page.

of course all of my pages are cfm pages.

How do I make sure my users get the 404.cfm page when there is a 404 error but

any kind of error ...like bad cfml, etc......?

Do I need to add something to the application .cfc??

[Sean Coyne]

You should look into the onMissingTemplate function of Application.cfc.

Adobe's documentation is here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7d2a.html

[JR__Bob__Dobbs]

You might also consider configuring your 404 error handler at the web server level rather than in ColdFusion.  What web server ( IIS or Apache ) and version are you using?

[weezerboy]

IIS and CF 8

[JR__Bob__Dobbs]

Have you tried configuring your custom 404 error in IIS rather than CF?

[weezerboy]

Yes...my host server set this up.

I set up the CFerror in the application.cfc like this

It seems that my work on this catches all errors except 404 errors.

But I am not getting the error emails though.

[JR__Bob__Dobbs]

Am I understanding you correctly?  Your host setup custom 404 handling in IIS.  If this is the case I suspect that the CF server never receives a request when a file is not on the server, it has already been handled by IIS.  Therefore no CF logic will, such as emails, will be executed.