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I found a different work around. &nbsp;<br />
In the control panel I can create custom error messages so I redirected the 500:100 errors to a page which caught the error and displayed it. &nbsp;<br />
Thanks for the help anyway.
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I found a different work around.  
In the control panel I can create custom error messages so I redirected the 500:100 errors to a page which caught the error and displayed it.  
Thanks for the help anyway.

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just a poinjt of clarification - the first comment is actually not true for IIS7. &nbsp;That was the case for IIS6, but since IIS7, all IIS configuration can be done by web.config<br />
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Cheers.
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just a poinjt of clarification - the first comment is actually not true for IIS7.  That was the case for IIS6, but since IIS7, all IIS configuration can be done by web.config

Cheers.

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When I create a new website in my web hosting control panel the detailed error messages for asp are turned off by default on an IIS 7 server. &nbsp;<br />
I can contact the support team to enable it, but is there any way this can be enabled by placing a file on the server? &nbsp;E.g. a web.config file (which I don't know anything about)<br />
I am using classic asp for this site.
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When I create a new website in my web hosting control panel the detailed error messages for asp are turned off by default on an IIS 7 server.  
I can contact the support team to enable it, but is there any way this can be enabled by placing a file on the server?  E.g. a web.config file (which I don't know anything about)
I am using classic asp for this site.

IIS 7 Enable Details Error messages remotely

IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Windows Server operating systems. All current versions are built on a modular architecture; modules can be added or removed individually so that those required for specific functionality are installed. The full installation of IIS includes HTTP, security, content, compression, caching, logging and diagnostics.

Microsoft IIS Web Server

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft’s first server-side engine for dynamic web pages. ASP’s support of the Component Object Model (COM) enables it to access and use compiled libraries such as DLLs. It has been superseded by ASP.NET, but will be supported by Internet Information Services (IIS) through at least 2022.