Error on Page

[anon47]

I caused this error on our development server because I wanted to see how and what information would be given regarding such an error. This is what it gave:

An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator

On our server it doesn't do that, it gives a lot more info like the line the errors is on and the part of the line where it started. My question is how do I set the server up so that when there is an error on our ASP page it shows the details of the error. I already changed it in the browser and it still does the same thing.

 

[anon47]

This is what it looks like on the server and how I needed to to do on the development server so I can track errors. Any help would be great

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0401'

Expected end of statement

/clients/test/index.asp, line 18

Server=SERVER\SQLEXPRESS;Database=GE_Data;Trusted_Connection=True;
------------------------^

 

[Sheco]

You can use the IIS Admin tool from to enable the server to show detailed messages. Also you're browser may have a "show friendly errors" selected under tha advanced options.



Actually, on a dev server, I find it very helpful to use a custom 500 page to catch general errors and give a bunch of info.. obviously you dont want this on the production server since some of the info might be private but it helps debug.

Here is a link about creating a custom 500 ASP :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224070

If you google it you might find some even better examples.

One thing I like to do on my custom 500 is dump the entire Request.QueryString and Request.Form to screen and then everything in Request.QueryVariables at the bottom for good measure.

 

[anon47]

Thanks Sheco

The operating system for the development server visa and win 2003 on the main server. I have the errors set to details but it still shows the same error with no information. Frustrating because the other server does it automaticly and I do hae the browser show friendly errors un checked. I would like to do this without the link above unless I just got to. Any thing you think I am over looking?

 

[anon47]

Can't get the custom error to work right. This is IIS 7.0 to.

 

[anon47]

I got it here is the fix by default the IIS 7.0 turns the send error to browser function off. Run this command:

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:asp -scriptErrorSentToBrowser:true

or go to your UI under asp properties and set the "send error to browser" = True

Later and thanks