Need help with setting up debugging in IIS please

[bimperial]

Hello folks,

My first time here and I'm coming from the Coldfusion side of web applications ;) but I've inherited a task to trouble shoot some issues with some so-called simple asp.net stuff ;). I've run into something right off the bat that I'm not familiar with, on the page here: http://medicine.med.unc.edu/about/directory.aspx
When clicking any of the search function buttons, it bombs out and I haven't a clue where to start so any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm posting the entire error page contents here, not sure what to do with it ...

Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>


Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>

TIA!

Bewildered Bob

[bimperial]

Ok, well I restarted IIS on that box and it's not erroring out anymore, but it would be nice to here from some of you more experienced asp.net IIS folks out there in regards to where a newbie should start with all this??? ;)

1rst hurdle crossed ;)

Hello folks,



My first time here and I'm coming from the Coldfusion side of web applications ;) but I've inherited a task to trouble shoot some issues with some so-called simple asp.net stuff ;). I've run into something right off the bat that I'm not familiar with, on the page here: http://medicine.med.unc.edu/about/directory.aspx
When clicking any of the search function buttons, it bombs out and I haven't a clue where to start so any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm posting the entire error page contents here, not sure what to do with it ...

Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>


Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>

TIA!

Bewildered Bob

[kenobewan]

Often fixing this problem is as easy as clicking the configuration button accessed from the properties in IIS to set it up as an IIS application. Restarting may have enabled your application in IIS. HTH.