404 handling in Azure website

Question

I have got an MVC website on Azure. I have written a controller action to stand in for a resource, that should return HTTP 404, but the body content should be some HTML where I

Answer 1

I was able to fix this by adding this httpErrors entry to the web.config:

<configuration>  
  <system.webServer>  
    <httpErrors existingResponse="PassThrough"/>  
  </system.webServer>  
<configuration>

I found this answer here:

http://blog.dezfowler.com/2010/09/aspnet-custom-error-not-shown-in-azure.html