Customizing 500/404 error

Question

Hi,
My setup is Coldfusion MX + IIS6 and need to customize 404
error messages on the server and 500 error messages.
Now, I know you guys are well familiar with this codes but,
here's what I need this information for:
If some one goes to
http://mysite.com/books/ but
there is no such folder books in the server. How do you let the
user see a nice page not the IIS standard 404 page for the occurred
error?
Further, if I want to map /books to another folder on the
filesystem such as /papers, how can that be done?
A similar but different problem is when someone goes to
http://mysite.com/my_books.cfm
but there is no such file in the filesystem, how do I let them know
that they are looking for the wrong file without using the default
MX error page?
Further, how can I map my_books.cfm to books.cfm
without creating my_books.cfm and the url still being
my_books.cfm.
Thanks,
Roland

Answer 1

I guess this is impossible in CF since nobody can answer it
eh?
All of your requests are possible, many of them have nothing
to do with
CF but rather you web server; IIS, Apache, etc.
You will want to check out the custom error options of your
web server,
the global missing template handler and error handler options
in the
cfadministrator as well as the <cferror...> tag, the
onError function of
Administrator.cfc and <cftry><cfcatch> blocks.
To do everything you want will take a compressive and
cohesive plan of
action using these various options.