ErrorDocument 403 Not Working

[KevinAlpha Profile]

I've tried using a very simple config and this works on my local machine (Windows 10) but not on the remote server (Windows Server 2012 R2). Same version of Helicon Ape in both places (and both just freshly installed, so no other customizations), but the version of IIS is obviously different due to the different operating systems.

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RewriteEngine on
ErrorDocument 403 "No Access, Dude!"
Order Allow,Deny

On my local machine, I receive the "No Access, Dude!" message. On the remote server, I get the default IIS "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied." error instead of the one specified in my config. If I disable Helicon, everything comes up fine - so I don't think something else is creating the 403.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Yaroslav]

Hello.

Newer IIS versions by default suppress all error messages, including custom, if request is not made from localhost (that is why you see errors on your local machine).
To allow custom errors to pass through you need to add this to your web.config file:

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