Posts Tagged ‘IIS’

Fix Application Error

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

How to fix Server Error in ‘yourApp’ Application

We get asked about this so much it deserves to be shown here. This error doesn’t mean a lot except that your site is broken. That’s not much help to you figuring out why its broken.

The error page does actually tell you exactly what you need to do to proceed, but for some reason, people don’t read it or think that they should not follow these directions. I remember the first time I ran into this error, and I didn’t follow the directions, so you aren’t alone if that describes you..
Server Error in ‘yourApp’ Application
Step 1:

* Open the web.config file of your application.
* Find ‘customErrors mode=”RemoteOnly” ‘.

Step 2:

Replace “RemoteOnly” with “Off”.
*** It is very important that you use capital “O” and lower case “ff”, as the web.config file is case sensitive, and if you get that wrong, you will continue to get the same error, even if you managed to fix the original error.
Step 3:

Run your application again, and you should now see a different error with the stack trace. This is the same way you would see the error if it was running on your own computer.

Properly Reinstalling SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Monday, August 25th, 2008

From here

  1. Stop the default IIS web site.
  2. DO NOT SHUTDOWN IIS.
  3. Delete both SQL Server 2005 Report Server databases.
  4. In Control Panel, click on the Change button for the pertinent SQL Server 2005 install instance.
  5. Continue to select Report Server and the option to remove it.
  6. Reinstall Reporting Services by running the installer on the SQL Server 2005 disc.
  7. Once setup is complete, launch the Reporting Services Configuration tool with the Configuration Tools menu in your Start menu.
  8. Fix any red-X items in the list.
  9. You should be good to go!