Say you work on your website on whatever language that may be, for this example, I’ll use ASP.
Then you encounter an error message, for this example, say the dreaded500 – Internal server error (picture 1).
So you sit there thinking “Ok, thanks! That doesn’t give me a clue on what my problem is!“
Lets fix that, shell we?
Edit your web.config file, inside the <system.webServer>section put this line in:
<httpErrors errorMode=”Detailed” />
See (picture 2) for an example.
IMPORTANT: If you are using ASP .NET, you also need to add the following inside the <system.web> tags of your web.config (at the end of the tag). If there is no <system.web>, simply create a starting and ending tag before <system.webserver> like so:<system.web><customErrors defaultRedirect=”errors.aspx” mode=”Off” /></system.web>
Ok! Now I know that I forgot my include file … how silly of me!
FYI, that code was bound to break on purpose, since I didn’t really have those includes… this code was just for the purpose of this demonstration and is noted for you, below:
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<% Option Explicit %>
<!– #include virtual = “/adovbs.inc” –>
<!– #include virtual = “/conn.asp” –><!doctype html public “-//w3c//dtd html 3.2//en”>
<html>
<head>
<title>(Type a title for your page here)</title>
</head><body bgcolor=”#ffffff” text=”#000000″ link=”#0000ff” vlink=”#800080″ alink=”#ff0000″>
<%
Dim conn,R,SQL,RecsAffectedSet conn=Server.CreateObject(“ADODB.Connection”)
conn.Mode=adModeReadWrite
conn.ConnectionString = aConnectionString
conn.Open
