I have just purchased "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" to start

learning to program in asp on my windows 2000 computer. When I enter

http://michael/localstart.asp into my IE5 browser, where michael is the

machine name, I get the error



HTTP 500 - Internal server error

Internet Explorer



I have reinstalled IIS 5.0 with the same result.  The machine is part of

a small network and I do not use a proxy server.  The dial-up setting

is set to "Never dial a connection".



Can you explain what the problem is and how to overcome it or do you

need more information, and if so what?



Regards Michael

-- 

Michael Quinn

Michael,



Firstly, you are asking on the ASP.Net list - not the ASP v3 list. I suggest

you sign up for the ASP v3 list here:

http://p2p.wrox.com/list.asp?list=beginning_asp



Secondly, in your copy of Internet Explorer, goto Tools, Internet Options,

Advanced and uncheck the Box that says "Show Friendly HTTP errors" - you

should then get an error message that was sent from your webserver, rather

than the sanitised IE version.



Cheers

Ken



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Quinn" <michael@m...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:26 AM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] HTTP: Error 500!





: I have just purchased "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" to start

: learning to program in asp on my windows 2000 computer. When I enter

: http://michael/localstart.asp into my IE5 browser, where michael is the

: machine name, I get the error

:

: HTTP 500 - Internal server error

: Internet Explorer

:

: I have reinstalled IIS 5.0 with the same result.  The machine is part of

: a small network and I do not use a proxy server.  The dial-up setting

: is set to "Never dial a connection".

:

: Can you explain what the problem is and how to overcome it or do you

: need more information, and if so what?

:

: Regards Michael

: --

: Michael Quinn

If your attempting to learn asp then your listing is on the wrong forum asp

and aspx are not the same



-----Original Message-----

From: Michael Quinn [mailto:michael@m...]

Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 6:27 PM

To: aspx_beginners

Subject: [aspx_beginners] HTTP: Error 500!





I have just purchased "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" to start

learning to program in asp on my windows 2000 computer. When I enter

http://michael/localstart.asp into my IE5 browser, where michael is the

machine name, I get the error



HTTP 500 - Internal server error

Internet Explorer



I have reinstalled IIS 5.0 with the same result.  The machine is part of

a small network and I do not use a proxy server.  The dial-up setting

is set to "Never dial a connection".



Can you explain what the problem is and how to overcome it or do you

need more information, and if so what?



Regards Michael

--

Michael Quinn

Check your code in that ASP page, there is an error in that. That's why it's

showing "Internatl Server Error".  If you are using IIS 5 on Win 2000 it

will not show you the error no, error dec.. etc..

For getting all these stuffs, go to IIS Admin, Take the properties of  your

site. and add a custom page to the error 500. If you want I can send you

that page, which I got from Microsoft's site.  It's good for debugging ASP

pages.



Happy Programming



JIB













----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Quinn" <michael@m...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 4:56 AM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] HTTP: Error 500!





> I have just purchased "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" to start

> learning to program in asp on my windows 2000 computer. When I enter

> http://michael/localstart.asp into my IE5 browser, where michael is the

> machine name, I get the error

>

> HTTP 500 - Internal server error

> Internet Explorer

>

> I have reinstalled IIS 5.0 with the same result.  The machine is part of

> a small network and I do not use a proxy server.  The dial-up setting

> is set to "Never dial a connection".

>

> Can you explain what the problem is and how to overcome it or do you

> need more information, and if so what?

>

> Regards Michael

> --

> Michael Quinn

Hi Ken

>

>Firstly, you are asking on the ASP.Net list - not the ASP v3 list. I suggest

>you sign up for the ASP v3 list here:

>http://p2p.wrox.com/list.asp?list=beginning_asp

>

>Secondly, in your copy of Internet Explorer, goto Tools, Internet Options,

>Advanced and uncheck the Box that says "Show Friendly HTTP errors" - you

>should then get an error message that was sent from your webserver, rather

>than the sanitised IE version.

>

I unchecked the Box as you suggested and IE5 reported a Server

Application error and suggested looking in the event log for more

information.  Where do I find the event log please?



Regards Michael



-- 

Michael Quinn

Start | Control Panels | Administrative Tools | Event Viewer



Cheers

Ken



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Quinn" <michael@m...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 8:33 PM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: HTTP: Error 500!





: Hi Ken

: >

: >Firstly, you are asking on the ASP.Net list - not the ASP v3 list. I

suggest

: >you sign up for the ASP v3 list here:

: >http://p2p.wrox.com/list.asp?list=beginning_asp

: >

: >Secondly, in your copy of Internet Explorer, goto Tools, Internet

Options,

: >Advanced and uncheck the Box that says "Show Friendly HTTP errors" - you

: >should then get an error message that was sent from your webserver,

rather

: >than the sanitised IE version.

: >

: I unchecked the Box as you suggested and IE5 reported a Server

: Application error and suggested looking in the event log for more

: information.  Where do I find the event log please?

How does this work?  Sounds like a great solution to find the root 

cause to

internal server error.



Thanks.

Cindy



-----Original Message-----

From: JIB_GEO [mailto:jib_geo@y...]

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:35 AM

To: aspx_beginners

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: HTTP: Error 500!





Check your code in that ASP page, there is an error in that. That's why 

it's

showing "Internatl Server Error".  If you are using IIS 5 on Win 2000 

it

will not show you the error no, error dec.. etc..

For getting all these stuffs, go to IIS Admin, Take the properties of  

your

site. and add a custom page to the error 500. If you want I can send 

you

that page, which I got from Microsoft's site.  It's good for debugging 

ASP

pages.



Happy Programming



JIB













----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Quinn" <michael@m...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 4:56 AM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] HTTP: Error 500!





> I have just purchased "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" to start

> learning to program in asp on my windows 2000 computer. When I enter

> http://michael/localstart.asp into my IE5 browser, where michael is 

the

> machine name, I get the error

>

> HTTP 500 - Internal server error

> Internet Explorer

>

> I have reinstalled IIS 5.0 with the same result.  The machine is part 

of

> a small network and I do not use a proxy server.  The dial-up setting

> is set to "Never dial a connection".

>

> Can you explain what the problem is and how to overcome it or do you

> need more information, and if so what?

>

> Regards Michael

> --

> Michael Quinn

Hi

>Check your code in that ASP page, there is an error in that. That's why it's

>showing "Internatl Server Error".  If you are using IIS 5 on Win 2000 it

>will not show you the error no, error dec.. etc..

>For getting all these stuffs, go to IIS Admin, Take the properties of  your

>site. and add a custom page to the error 500. If you want I can send you

>that page, which I got from Microsoft's site.  It's good for debugging ASP

>pages.

>

>Happy Programming

>

>JIB

>

Yes Please send me the page you suggest.

Regards Michael

-- 

Michael Quinn

I'm sorry, but if you go an actually /look/ at the code in the 500 error

page supplied with IIS v5 you will see that it uses the inbuilt ASPError

object to report the source, line number and column of the error.



I suspect the reason you are not seeing this information is becuase IE has

an annoying feature which sanitises errors from the server - you need to

uncheck the box that says "Show Friendly Error Messages" before IE will

display the error sent by the server. You can verify this by attempting to

look at the dud page using Netscape - Netscape doesn't do this sanitising.



Cheers

Ken



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Quinn" <michael@m...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 1:29 AM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: HTTP: Error 500!





: Hi

: >Check your code in that ASP page, there is an error in that. That's why

it's

: >showing "Internatl Server Error".  If you are using IIS 5 on Win 2000 it

: >will not show you the error no, error dec.. etc..

: >For getting all these stuffs, go to IIS Admin, Take the properties of

your

: >site. and add a custom page to the error 500. If you want I can send you

: >that page, which I got from Microsoft's site.  It's good for debugging

ASP

: >pages.

: >

: >Happy Programming

: >

: >JIB

: >

: Yes Please send me the page you suggest.

: Regards Michael

: --

: Michael Quinn

Also, for a more specific reason for the error, in IE - click

Tools>>Internet Options>>Advanced and uncheck the "Show friendly HTTP error

messages" box under the "Browsing" section - refresh the offending page for

a more specific idea of what's wrong.



Regards

Steve Minton

Web Developer

HSBC

----- Original Message -----

From: "Eldridge, Cindy (CORP)" <Cindy.Eldridge@C...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:03 PM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: HTTP: Error 500!





How does this work?  Sounds like a great solution to find the root cause to

internal server error.



Thanks.

Cindy



-----Original Message-----

From: JIB_GEO [mailto:jib_geo@y...]

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:35 AM

To: aspx_beginners

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: HTTP: Error 500!





Check your code in that ASP page, there is an error in that. That's why it's

showing "Internatl Server Error".  If you are using IIS 5 on Win 2000 it

will not show you the error no, error dec.. etc..

For getting all these stuffs, go to IIS Admin, Take the properties of  your

site. and add a custom page to the error 500. If you want I can send you

that page, which I got from Microsoft's site.  It's good for debugging ASP

pages.



Happy Programming



JIB













----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Quinn" <michael@m...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 4:56 AM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] HTTP: Error 500!





> I have just purchased "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" to start

> learning to program in asp on my windows 2000 computer. When I enter

> http://michael/localstart.asp into my IE5 browser, where michael is the

> machine name, I get the error

>

> HTTP 500 - Internal server error

> Internet Explorer

>

> I have reinstalled IIS 5.0 with the same result.  The machine is part of

> a small network and I do not use a proxy server.  The dial-up setting

> is set to "Never dial a connection".

>

> Can you explain what the problem is and how to overcome it or do you

> need more information, and if so what?

>

> Regards Michael

> --

> Michael Quinn

It works like this.



Things to do :-

---------------



1. Create a custom error page which can show error message, line number, and

the file name  (if you want     I can send you the page for that, send  me

your email id)

2. Attach this page to the custom error 500 in IIS Admin Panel of your site.



How it works:-

--------------



When an error occurs in any of the asp pages inside that site. IIS

automaticall transfers to the error page which we have provided for 500

Error.  In that page we have written code for displaying the errror.



This is how it works.  I found it very helpful, when I switched my

development platform from NT4 to Win2K.



JIB







----- Original Message -----

From: "Eldridge, Cindy (CORP)" <Cindy.Eldridge@C...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:33 PM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: HTTP: Error 500!





How does this work?  Sounds like a great solution to find the root cause to

internal server error.



Thanks.

Cindy



-----Original Message-----

From: JIB_GEO [mailto:jib_geo@y...]

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:35 AM

To: aspx_beginners

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: HTTP: Error 500!





Check your code in that ASP page, there is an error in that. That's why it's

showing "Internatl Server Error".  If you are using IIS 5 on Win 2000 it

will not show you the error no, error dec.. etc..

For getting all these stuffs, go to IIS Admin, Take the properties of  your

site. and add a custom page to the error 500. If you want I can send you

that page, which I got from Microsoft's site.  It's good for debugging ASP

pages.



Happy Programming



JIB













----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Quinn" <michael@m...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 4:56 AM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] HTTP: Error 500!





> I have just purchased "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" to start

> learning to program in asp on my windows 2000 computer. When I enter

> http://michael/localstart.asp into my IE5 browser, where michael is the

> machine name, I get the error

>

> HTTP 500 - Internal server error

> Internet Explorer

>

> I have reinstalled IIS 5.0 with the same result.  The machine is part of

> a small network and I do not use a proxy server.  The dial-up setting

> is set to "Never dial a connection".

>

> Can you explain what the problem is and how to overcome it or do you

> need more information, and if so what?

>

> Regards Michael

> --

> Michael Quinn

This type of page already comes with IIS v5...



Cheers

Ken



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

----- Original Message -----

From: "JIB_GEO" <jib_geo@y...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:22 PM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: HTTP: Error 500!





: It works like this.

:

: Things to do :-

: ---------------

:

: 1. Create a custom error page which can show error message, line number,

and

: the file name  (if you want     I can send you the page for that, send  me

: your email id)

: 2. Attach this page to the custom error 500 in IIS Admin Panel of your

site.

:

: How it works:-

: --------------

:

: When an error occurs in any of the asp pages inside that site. IIS

: automaticall transfers to the error page which we have provided for 500

: Error.  In that page we have written code for displaying the errror.

:

: This is how it works.  I found it very helpful, when I switched my

: development platform from NT4 to Win2K.

:

: JIB

Thanks Ken, It was a new information for me. any way I've tried with

unchecking in the browser window and it works.



Thanks for  the information



JIB





----- Original Message -----

From: "Ken Schaefer" <ken@a...>

To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:18 PM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: HTTP: Error 500!





> This type of page already comes with IIS v5...

>

> Cheers

> Ken

>