How to show detailed ASP errors

Display classic ASP errors on your website

This article shows you how to enable detailed error messages on your DomainsFoundry Windows hosting package.

Problem

When you view an Active Server Pages (ASP) page in a browser, the following error occurs:

500 Internal server error
500 Internal server error

Cause

An error in your ASP page is preventing your page from loading. The full error message is not shown because detailed error messages are disabled on your domain.

To protect your site from hackers, DomainsFoundry Windows shared-hosting servers come with detailed ASP errors disabled.

Enabling ASP errors is considered a high security risk and if enabled, should only be done temporarily during development.

Resolution

Enable detailed error messages by modifying your site’s web.config file.

How to enable detailed ASP errors

  1. FTP into your website space.
  2. Goto the wwwroot folder.
  3. Create a backup copy of web.config.xml
  4. Open web.config.xml
  5. Copy and Paste this line before </system.webServer> 
    <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" />
<asp scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true" />
  6. Save web.config.xml

ASP errors will now show.