Hi People

I want to handle 500 errors better. My site is down due to DB problems so I cant handle the errors like I would with 404's inside Umbraco.

I have tried the setting up a holding.htm page and put the following in my web.config

<

customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="~/Holding.htm">

<

error statusCode="500" redirect="~/Holding.htm"/>

</customErrors>

and....

<

httpErrors>

<

remove statusCode="500" subStatusCode="-1" />

<

error statusCode="500" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="~/Holding.htm" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />

</

httpErrors>

But it seems the API is still trying to handle the requests. The redirect (I think) is working but because the API is trying to run I get redirected again to; "Holding.htm?aspxerrorpath=/default.aspx" and then get a 404 instead (which doesnt work as the db is down so I get the standard one). 

So what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.