In this post I pretend to share only one way to do friendly error page (500) and not found (404) page in Sitecore. I say one way because this is just one way to do this since you might find another that suits best your needs. This first part includes Sitecore items and config changes. Last but no least, I am using a version 8.1 update 2.
To begin, let’s create a template for the error pages that can be as complex as you need, but here is just an example with one field for the error code:
I am pretty new in EpiServer, but here is my attempt to fill some drop down lists with data coming from the CMS. I am using a version 6 of EpiServer since this is the one I needed to work on when I made these changes.
I had a form with some drop down lists which its content was hard-coded. I was asked to pull the data from the CMS:
I participated in the Sitecore Hackathon the last February. Overall, the experience was great, but here are some comments and notes if you want to participate in coming ones.
First, it was my first hackathon. Yeah, sounds weird.. but really I haven’t participated in one before. I have, however, participated in a couple of programming competitions. I even won one of them when I was in college 😎.
