How to make custom error pages work in ASP.NET MVC 4

Question

I want a custom error page shown for 500, 404 and 403. Here\'s what I have done:

1. Enabled custom errors in the web.config as follows:

Answer 1

I had everything set up, but still couldn't see proper error pages for status code 500 on our staging server, despite the fact everything worked fine on local development servers.

I found this blog post from Rick Strahl that helped me.

I needed to add Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors = true; to my custom error handling code.