How To Configure Custom Error Messages In IIS 6.0

1. In IIS Manager, double-click the local computer.

2.Right-click the Web Sites folder

3. Then click the Web site folder/virtual directory; and then right click to Properties.

4. Click the Custom Errors tab.

5. In the Error messages for HTTP errors list, click the HTTP error to change, and click Edit.

6. In the Message Type list box, click either File to return a custom error file or URL to direct the request to a custom error URL on the local machine.

5. If you selected File, type the path to the file or click Browse to navigate to the file. Custom error messages are installed by default to the systemroot\Help\IisHelp\Common folder. The file names are numbers that correspond to the specific HTTP errors; for example, 400.htm, 401-1.htm, and so on.

5a. If you selected URL, type the path to the Web site or virtual directory. The URL must be a Web site or a virtual directory on the local machine. In addition, the custom error URL must exist in the application pool that directs the request to the custom error URL. If you store custom error pages in a virtual directory, that virtual directory must run in the same application pool as the rest of your Web site. Otherwise, the worker process cannot serve the custom error page when it is requested.

6. Click OK and now completed