href a aspx page from a html page

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I'm having trouble running my guest book application (.aspx) calling it from my html index page. Is there something different or weird about this?

<a href="guest/guestbook.aspx">Sign my guestbook</a>

This works fine on my machine, but as soon as I publish it to my web server and hit the link, it crashes.

Frank B · Answer

You might also ask them to move you to a more current server. My hosting server @godaddy is IIS 7 and supports .NET 1.1 2.0 3.5.

Ken Barrett · Answer

I found a bug in my Web.Config file.. and now I am seeing this : Line 1 is just what Visual Web Developer puts in there.. and I never really gave it a lot of thought. Anyone out there have a clue? Server Error in '/' Application. Parser Error Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately. Parser Error Message: Could not load type '_Default'. Source Error: Line 1: Line 2: Line 3: Source File: d:\hosting\barrettken	est.aspx Line: 1 Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2407; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2407

Ken Barrett · Answer

Operating System: Windows Hosting Type: Shared Hosting Hosting Configuration: .Net Runtime Version: ASP.Net 1.1 IIS Version: IIS 6.0 Well there goes my theory. I have an open case with godaddy support.. maybe they can figure it out.

Frank B · Answer

On godaddy (where I have a site as well) you can check IIS settings from the hosting control center. It will tell you the version of IIS and .NET your hosting server is running. You can also see there if your directory is setup as an application or not. Click the edit directory icon (pencil on the right) and see if the Set Application Root box is checked.

Ken Barrett · Answer

I'm using a provider (godaddy) so I don't have access to that info. I'm using Xcopy to send my web pages to the site. This does seem odd. It SHOULD work.. but doesn't.

Frank B · Answer

Very odd. Can you see the IIS configuration on the server? Is this setup as an application in IIS?

Ken Barrett · Answer

Frank B · Answer

Please post the section containing the tag from your web.config. Be sure to include say 5 lines before and 5 lines after the actual tag. If it's anything like mine (shown below) the tag is commented out. The section enables configuration of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs during the execution of a request. Specifically it enables developers to configure html error pages to be displayed in place of a error stack trace. --> COMMENT ENDS

Ken Barrett · Answer

I modified the Web.config file with customErrors mode set to off and still got the same error message - the same page instructing me to set customErrors mode to off and everything. The only thing I can think of is that regardless of what they are telling me I am not running on a windows server running IIS. The provider swears this is not so however. I constructed a new page using Visual Web Developer 2005 named test.aspx that does nothing. It just shows text saying Hello. I'll include these files here just for grins and giggles... Untitled Page Hello The code behind file is.. using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Collections; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender EventArgs e) { } } So you see nothing is going on there. Yet I still get the error when I call the page from the server. What a conundrum. Ken Barrett

Roei Bar · Answer

go to web.config set this then you will receive the .NET exception what does it say ?

Frank B · Answer

Look closely at the web config. Did you just modify the existing tag you found there? If you did it is likely commented out.

Ken Barrett · Answer

It doesn't give me much. I've made the changes it suggests in my web.config file and got the same result. ------- 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 tag within a web.config configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its mode attribute set to Off. 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 configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

Frank B · Answer

What's the error message you get?