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Classic ASP using IIS7

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Article ID:
169
Date Created
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Last Updated
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Short Desc
500 Internal Server Error, and IIS7, using Classic ASP, can be a nightmare, if IIS7 is not configured properly. However, there has to be a web.config configuration as well.
Details
By default, IIS7 does not show the ASP Classic error to the web page.
Even if you set the browser to NOT show Friendly error messages.
This is a default setting within IIS7, and can only be set within the web.config file.
Recreate Issue
To recreate this issue.

By default, IIS7 does not show asp classic errors to the page.
You will instead, get the default 500 Error message.
Resolve Issue
To resolve this issue.

Scenario #1:

Step 1. Open a text document.
Step 2. Insert this code:

<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" />
<asp scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true"/>
</httpErrors>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

Step 3. Save the file as Web.Config
Step 4. Upload the Web.Config file to your host web directory.[/codevalue]

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