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which is the best way to create a custom error page in sharepoint ?

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Depends what you mean by "best". The easiest way: In your web.config file: in the <system.web> section, modify the customErrors element to:

<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="/Pages/MyCustomErrorPage.aspx" />

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i mean , i dont want standard sharepoint error page"page not found" page to come everytime . i need to have an error page designed seperately for my client and whenever there is any error the custom page shld be soming . – Nikhil Dec 28 '10 at 4:40
The 404 page not found situation is a little different. First you need to modify the FileNotFoundPage of the SPWebApplication object and give it a new file name, which you can code in a feature or do with Powershell. SharePoint looks for this 404 page in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033 (assuming English locale) - you can't give it a full path or URL. – SPDoctor♦ Dec 28 '10 at 10:36
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Write a HttpModule to handle the onerror event, and redirect to the custom error page.

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