Modifying AccessDenied SharePoint page

Question

I am trying to change the access denied page to add our help desk information and remove "Request access" link. Adding a "p" tag will work but when I try to remove/comment out the line for the asp link for "Request access" it throws me an error. What am I doing wrong? By the way I am editing in notepad directly on the WFE server.

<%@ Assembly Name="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"%> <%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.AccessDeniedPage" MasterPageFile="~/_layouts/simple.master" %> <%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="Utilities" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %> <%@ Assembly Name="Microsoft.Web.CommandUI, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> " EncodeMethod='HtmlEncode'/> " EncodeMethod='HtmlEncode'/> " EncodeMethod='HtmlEncode'/> " EncodeMethod='HtmlEncode'/>    

To request access please contact the help desk xxx-xxx-xxxx

    <asp:HyperLink id="HLinkLoginAsAnother" Text="<%$SPHtmlEncodedResources:wss,accessDenied_logInAsAnotherOne%>"
        CssClass="ms-descriptiontext" runat="server"/>
    <br/>
    <asp:HyperLink id="HLinkRequestAccess" Text="<%$SPHtmlEncodedResources:wss,accessDenied_requestAccess%>"
        CssClass="ms-descriptiontext" runat="server"/>
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Answer 1

What if you just disable access requests?

Answer 2

For SharePoint 2010, this is the way to create your custom page. Quick and dirty way:

• Go to 14 hive folder and create a folder "CustomPages"
• Put your custom .aspx or HTML file there. For example, call it Custom_Access_Denied.aspx

• Run PowerShell command:

  $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://yoursite $webApp.UpdateMappedPage([Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication+SPCustomPage]::AccessDenied,"/_layouts/CustomPages/Custom_Access_Denied.aspx") $webApp.Update()

More info here

Update:

Proper way would be:

• Create a custom WSP solution
• Add your custom AccessDenied.aspx page to the solution
• Create a Feature and with Feature receivers that apply a custom page and revert it back to the OOB one when feature is deactivated.

Update 2:

The reason you cannot remove ASP.NET controls from the ASPX file is that somewhere in in code behind, in OOB SharePoint DLL, these controls are referenced. I strongly advice against modifying this file, but if you still want to do it - just wrap the controls you want to hide in a div :

<div style='display:none'>
  <asp:HyperLink id="HLinkLoginAsAnother"...
</div>