Elmah (mvc4) ignores the customErrors (but it logs)

Question

I've just migrated a MVC3 project to a 4.

I also installed the newest update of ELMAH.

I do have an issue with unhandled exceptions.

In my web.config I have this:

<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="/Error/Error" redirectMode="ResponseRedirect">
  <error statusCode="404" redirect="/Error/NotFound" />
</customErrors>

When I get an unhandled exception, Elmah logs it, no problem there, but it doesnt send me to the Error/Error view. It also doesn't do the 'ResponseRedirect'

What it does instead is keep the URL as it was, and it shows me the Error.aspx view from the Shared folder.

How do I change the settings somewhere, that the customErrors won't be ignored?

You are using the `[HandleError]` attribute in your controller, aren't you? — Pablo Claus, Aug 28 '12 at 16:02

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 29 '12 at 14:12

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If you are seeing the Error.aspx page then definitely HandleError filter is playing behind it. Go to Global.asax.cs and check HandleErrorAttribute is not added in the RegisterGlobalFilters method.

Also make sure you haven't overridden the OnException method of the controller and doing something manually yourself.

answered Aug 29 '12 at 14:12

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I have commented out the `//filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());` but this didnt fix my problem – Stefanvds Aug 31 '12 at 13:13
also, this worked perfectly in MVC3, i only migrated to 4. so must be something with that. – Stefanvds Aug 31 '12 at 13:18

Elmah (mvc4) ignores the customErrors (but it logs)

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