Error while deploying website on server

Question

I deployed my website on ftp server. but when i open my first page in the browser it gives me the following error.

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".

<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.

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

i replaced the code by the given instructions but still it gives me an error. can somebody tell me what is the problem the web.config file is attached to the post. please help me.

Abhimanyu K Vatsa · Answer

custom errors will just display the designed error page, will not fix the issue. there may be many reasons: (i) bad configuration structure (ii) .net versions the best way to deploy website is to first deploy on local IIS having same configuration like your ftp server. however, if you can't do this then do one thing, delete your current config file and add a new config (that will have default settings and no any bad config structure). even you can trap the specific error by writing try catch handler at different locations like in your codebehind or in globals etc.

saifullah khan · Answer

This error come because on ftp there is already a web.config file on the root directory that is why error comes. so the best way to remove the error is to remove the complete directory and recreate it.

Manish Dwivedi · Answer

Hi, set Custom Error mode to off, then check what error you are getting.