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• 09-29-2008, 2:44 PM

  billappledorf Joined on 09-29-2008, 6:31 PM Posts 4

  No ASP Error Messages from IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Reply Contact The shop I am working in uses Classic ASP on IIS 6 and Windows Server 2003. About a week ago the familiar “VBScript Error . . . [filename] [line number]” error messages disappeared, and now page processing halts on errors with nary a whimper. Our network administrator says that “nothing has changed”, so I am thinking maybe a behind-your-back Windows Update installed some code on our server that is causing this. A co-worker has admitted to having installed Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition on the server in question. Express Edition was subsequently uninstalled, but we are still not seeing any ASP error messages. We are clueless as to how to diagnose this problem and have a mountain of ASP code to maintain. Do you have any more insight into this problem than has been offered in the few posts out there (most of which reference IIS 7, which we do not use) regarding this? Thanks.

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• 09-30-2008, 9:41 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,235

  Re: No ASP Error Messages from IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Reply Contact In the IIS MMC, bring up the properties for the site, and on the Home Directory tab, click the Configuration button in the Application settings section.  On the debugging tab, make sure that "Send detailed asp errors" is selected. Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 09-30-2008, 12:30 PM

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  billappledorf Joined on 09-29-2008, 6:31 PM Posts 4	Re: No ASP Error Messages from IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Reply Contact This box always was and still is checked, which is why we are mystified by having lost our VBScript error messages.

• 09-30-2008, 2:12 PM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,235	Re: No ASP Error Messages from IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Reply Contact Are friendly error messages disabled in IE? Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 09-30-2008, 2:28 PM

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  billappledorf Joined on 09-29-2008, 6:31 PM Posts 4

  Re: No ASP Error Messages from IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Reply Contact Hi Tom. Thanks for looking into this. No, friendly messages are on in IE when we use it, but we use Firefox 99% of the time. A coworker recently installed Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition on our server (it has subsequently been uninstalled), and our problem with not seeing ASP error messages seems to have started after that installation. We are wondering if some IIS 7components might have been installed with Express Edition and if one might have been left behind when Express Edition was uninstalled -- such that there is an IIS 7 component controlling our error message handling and we do not have an interface to configure it. (IIS on our machine is and continues to look like IIS 6.) Our network manager has reasons I am not aware of but that are presumably rational for not  upgrading our server to IIS 7. Thanks.

• 12-02-2008, 5:01 AM

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  rogerperry Joined on 12-02-2008, 4:56 AM Posts 2

  Re: No ASP Error Messages from IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Reply Contact hi, I seem to have the same symptoms i.e. no asp error messages except syntax and there has been an installation of visual studio on the server ( came in with sql 2005 - now uninstalled and back to sql2000) . The frienly messages are off and then server is configured to send detailed messages and the 500-100.asp is functional ( shows syntax errors) Did you manage to resolve it ? Any help gratefully received  Roger

• 12-02-2008, 2:51 PM

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  billappledorf Joined on 09-29-2008, 6:31 PM Posts 4

  Re: No ASP Error Messages from IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Reply Contact The problem you encountered seems to be a little different than ours in that we receive a blank page when IIS encounters an ASP syntax error. We resolved our issue by installing our code on our individual machines and using IIS on XP for our development environment. We still have no idea why our server stopped reporting ASP syntax errors, serving up a blank page instead, after we installed then deinstalled Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition on our server.

• 12-02-2008, 10:12 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 8:54 PM MI Posts 3,963	Re: No ASP Error Messages from IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Reply Contact Do you have any type of custom error page or debugging enabled?  that is one thing I can think of off-hand. Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 12-03-2008, 2:38 AM

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  rogerperry Joined on 12-02-2008, 4:56 AM Posts 2	Re: No ASP Error Messages from IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Reply Contact hi, - thanks for looking at the problem, no  i have no custom error handling