Cakephp - how to make error pages have its own layouts?

Question

I wanna have a different layout for the page not found 404 page. How can i set a different layout for that page?

Answer 1

In CakePHP 2.2.2 I changed the ExceptionRenderer in core.php with my own, like this:

app/Config/core.php:

Configure::write('Exception', array(
  'handler' => 'ErrorHandler::handleException',
  'renderer' => 'MyExceptionRenderer', // this is ExceptionRenderer by default
  'log' => true
));

app/Lib/Error/MyExceptionRenderer.php:

App::uses('ExceptionRenderer', 'Error');

class MyExceptionRenderer extends ExceptionRenderer {

  protected function _outputMessage($template) {
    $this->controller->layout = 'error';
    parent::_outputMessage($template);
  }

}