How to Customize Error Page, Page Not Found and Access Denied in SharePoint 2010

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There are many ways to customize these pages for example you can customize by code by creating a feature at web application scope or you can do it by power shell so let’s see the simple way.

First create three pages and place them in this path

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\

Custom_Error.html

Custom_NotFound.html

Custom_AccessDenied.html

Note: if you have multilingual site you need to place these pages in their language folder for example for Arabic

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1025\

Second Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell with Farm Administrator User

Now For Custom page Not Found runs the following Power Shell:

 $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication https://test 
$webApp.FileNotFoundPage = “Custom_NotFound.html” 
$webApp.Update()

For Custom Error Page, Access Denied page,.. All pages listed in the below image

Run the following Power Shell:

 

 $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication https://test
$webApp.UpdateMappedPage([Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication+SPCustomPage]::Error,"/_layouts/1033/Custom_Error.html") 
$webApp.Update()

Ref: https://salvatoredifaziosharepoint.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-customize-sharepoint-2010-error.html

 

[Updated in 26/1/2016] , For SharePoint 2013:

  1. Make sure to update the SharePoint Farm with April 2014 Cumulative Update(CU) or higher.
  2. Make sure to use this path /_layouts/15/ for your custom pages
    For example 
    $webApp.UpdateMappedPage([Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.
    SPWebApplication+SPCustomPage]::Error," /_layouts/15/errorf404.html")