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ASP Error Messages
I'm running asp on MS Server 2000. Running Internet Explorer I used to get a
proper message with page and line number when there was a bug in my asp
code. Suddenly I'm not getting these any more, I just get the standard

HTTP 500 - Internal server error
Internet Explorer
page which is completely useless.

In Tools/Internet Options/Advanced neither "Disable Script Debugging" or
"Disable a notification about every script error" is checked, though I think
these only apply to scripts running in the client e.g. javascript.

Error Messages In My IE
I'm using IIS from win xp pro and normally when my page doesn't work i get
the error message but not on my computer....
Someone told me that i had to check the option in my IE, i did that but i
still don't get the messages. In my IIS i told him to activate errormessages
on the client and server but nothing

Error 500 Messages
I have inserted a free forum from youngpip.com into a website (www.mrmci.com/discuss) and although it works fine on my pws it keeps generating error 500 messages when on the net. Any attempt to write to the database returns this error (it reads from the DB fine).
Any ideas folks

ASP Error Messages
I am running a website on a IIS 5.0. I recently noticed that whenever I test an asp page, if there's an error in my ASP code, I do not see any details as to why the error occurred, but rather just a generic http 500 page...Before, it used to tell me for instance that a variable was not declared and also indicated the line number etc. but not anymore.

why is this and what do I need to change in IIS to get these detailed error messages back.

Custom 500 Error
When you have a custom HTTP 500 error handler, how do you go about making sure all your previously opened recordsets/objects/connections/etc.are closed properly?

It would seem to me that once you hit a 500 error, you have no opportunity to close any of the previously opened objects, eventually causing memory leaks.

Error Messages Nested
When an HTTP 500.100 occure in IIS 5.0, I was getting redirected to a HTTP 500.100 -'page cannot be displayed' error page when there was an error, but now in IIS 6.0, I get 'Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01c2' ' nested within the page.

I'm trying to create my own error messages so it will re-direct to my own error page and send me an email. I used to be able to do this in IIS 5.0 but I can't seem to get it going in IIS 6.0 as it doesn't re-direct to a default error message.how to get IIS 6.0 to work like IIS 5.0, or is there another way of doing it, or is this not even an IIS problem.

How To Display Error Messages
I've got an app I'm working on that sometimes will give me an error message and sometimes it won't. When it doesn't it just displays "Page cannot be displayed". Is there a code that will allow asp to display the error messages?

Here's the code I was using:

<%
dim objComm
set objComm = Server.createObject ("adodb.command")
objComm.activeconnection = MM_dbConn_STRING
objcomm.commandText = "dbo.aIssue"
objComm.commandtype = "adCmdStoredProc"
objComm.execute
%>

Custom 404 Error Handling
When a user tries to visit a non-existant page in our web site they receive a custom 404 error message. I want to capture the URL the user tried to visit. Does anyone know where I can find this string?

Custom Error Page
I am still in the debugging of my website, but I'm nearing the end. As a last phase implementation, I want to be able to catch all asp errors and if there is one, send the user to a custom "sorry bout that" page, rather than having the errors displayed on that; if there aren't any errors, let the page load.
I setup the 404 error, but that doesn't seem to accomplish what I want.

Custom 404 Error Page
I downloaded this custom 404 error page which sends an email, was wondering if anyone could have a look at it for me, for some reason, its not picking up the function, I have tried the mailing code and it works fine. Code:

Custom Error Pages
is there a way to make custom error pages specific to a particular page?I know you can make customer error pages for iis to use.but if there is an error on a particuar page, can i make a custom error page to be redirected to?

for example,if a user is clicking away and runs into an error,it would display error1.htm.if they were on a different page and an error occured,they would get an error2.hm.

IIS ASP Custom Error Page
why I can't use custom error messages with the asp extension in IIS5.1? I have set up a custom page to handle errors called errorHandler.asp and all HTML is rendered but not the asp.

If i put Hello World in the html body section it renders but if I put the same in a response.write of the asp it won't render.

Sent Messages/reply To User Error
I have a problem when a user login to the site and when they tried to write or reply a message to other user I got this error message:

Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3'

Server.CreateObject Failed

/write.asp, line 122

800401f3

I am running windows 2003 server with IIS6 installed with all the access component install. I am not sure what causing it. The weird part it sent or reply messages to the user but it just give that error messages. I had include the error code below write.asp I only copy and paste half the text in here. Code:

ASP Error Messages Not Getting To The Client With IIS5.1 On XP Pro
I just upgraded to Windows XP Pro from Windows 2000 Pro. All my ASP stuff seems to work, except that when an ASP page generates an error, and the Error handling is set to "On
Error Goto 0" the page just stops, as if I typed a response.end, and no
error information is returned to the client. If I set On Error Resume Next,
and write err.desc after the offending line, the error text is written
correctly. For debug purposes of course it is nice to be able to
immediately see the line number, and description though.

Anyway, does anybody know what setting I need to change to fix this? I have
server side, and client side debug set, and I have it set to send detailed
errors to the asp page.

Another interesting thing is if there is a compile-time error, like a syntax
error, or something, the page doesn't load, but I get the error message
until an error happens with the above condition, after that, it will just
return a blank page.

Custom Http Error 404 To Catch Subdomains.site.com Requests
I have 404.asp file that catches non existing pages such as www.site.com/es for spanish version of site. Now I would like to move ahead and have es.site.com instead. I started digging into subdomains in IIS and found out that usually when creating subdomain in IIS it creates a separate sub-directory by the same name as the subdomain created. From some reason the custom error 404.asp file I already have is not called when a call to a non existing sub domain page is made.

Anyone knows why?

How do I configure 404.asp to also handle subdomain page requests?

I know that in Unix/Apache I can use .htaccess file to direct calls to es.site.com to www.site.com/es quite easily, can this be done somehow on IIS?

Alert
I store few pending task in Access or MS SQL and set the deadline to
each item. While I am viewing the webpage, it will give message or
alert with specific time. How can I do in ASP?

Js Alert
I want to show an alert("message") in the new window that is opend after I do a redirect:
for example (that doesn't work):

Response.Write(" <script type=""text/javascript""> ")
Response.Write(" window.location.href=""Scenario.asp""; ")
Response.Write(" window.alert(""Scenario saved!""); ")
Response.Write(" </script> ")

Remember that I write in server-side.

An Alert()
I want to show an alert("message") in the new window that is opend after I did a redirect:for example (that doesn't work):

Response.Write(" <script type=""text/javascript""> ")
Response.Write(" window.location.href=""Scenario.asp""; ")
Response.Write(" window.alert(""Scenario saved!""); ")
Response.Write(" </script> ")

Remember that I write in server-side.

JS Alert
Is it possible to do a database lookup in a javascript function *before* displaying the error alert?

We want to do a database table lookup first and get a BETTER error message based on the text field throwing the error.

Email Alert
I have a list of events reading from an Access db. One field gives the total number of candidates that are allowed to apply and another gives the total that have currently applied. There's another field which will act as a flag. Eg if 50 are allowed to apply and 40 have applied then a message will appear saying "event nearly fully booked". At this point I want to send an email to the admin letting them know the course is nearly booked, how would I go about it?

Mail Alert
i want to do something in ASP that is exactly same as alert for mail when we are using some messanger. Say for example when we are online on yahoo messanger, we get alerts for new mails.

Alert And Disable
How can I check if the file is an JPG within my form??
If the file is JPG then the submit button should be enable, if not the
submit button should be disable

Alert System
Am implementing an alert system that will notify users by mail of activity on a pre-defined date. What function or event can I use to achieve auto-execution of this alert on a specified date without human intervention.

Alert Or Messagebox
I am not clear ... whether to use alert of javascript or messagebox of VBScript in ASP. But what i want is that when a user has some error i want to display a pop-up kind of a thing saying "you have not entered all the values" ... and when he click "ok" then he should be directed to the same page where he was enterign the values. I tried this but in my case i am just being redirected to the page ..and my message box in not being popped up! Code:

Alert In Javascript
This question doesn't have anything to do with ASP, but I couldn't find any better place to ask it and i'm sure that if an answer exists someone here knows.

So, the question is :

When I use the alert function, a certain symbol(warning) appears. is it
possible to change this icon and use another one?

Alert Script
i have a system setup where users enter their data (dates eg 2-7-1981) no i want a function where the databse will check the dates table and send an email to the admin when its 1 week from a date.

i am running ASP and an odbc access database

i can give you ftp access to my site (a test site its the same as the propper site) if you want to have ago .

Alert Problem
In my Login.asp page i have some simple validations. The user is given alerts if they dont fill in their username or password field.

However the problem I have is this: If a user enters their username but not their password, using my current code they will get the correct alert BUT they have to re-type their username as the page is refreshed (i think). How can i modify the code so that after clicking 'Ok' on the alert pop up only the field with the erros has to be re-typed? Sample of my code:

Alert Object
I have following code in the javascript function
alert("Please enter all product");

My manager wants the alert message to be in red and bold,I tried this,

mystring = " If possible, we would like to get one survey for each product area";
mystring.fontcolor('red');
mystring.fontsize(20);
alert(mystring);

Visual Alert
i used macromedia 2004 mx, asp.net and access database to make a simple web application to keep track of the phone call messages recieved in my company. In the main page i have a dataset to display all records of the call that have not been acknowledged yet, the page refreshes everyone 1 min to display any new records added .

if there is a way to make a visual alert like a popup message or a window to open up to inform you that a new record was added instead looking all the time at the page to see if a new record pops up.

Alert Message
I need to write a function that will display an alert when the Submit button is pressed on a form IF a full stop, single quote or double quotation mark is used in any of the fields on that form.

This alert also needs to tell the user (if possible) in which field the offending symbol is located. I can provide field names if required, but I really just need to know how to set the function up.

Renaming The Alert Message Box?
my page uses a javascript function which alerts users like this:

alert("An alert message");

how do I rename the message box in which this appears?

Popup Instead Of Javascript Alert
I would like to achieve the equivalent of a client side javascript alert popup from server side code. Any suggestion how I can do this? How can I cause a beep at clientside from serverside code?

Simple Alert Button Required
ok when the user clicks submit on my form it automatically deletes the record and returns to the main page..

i need an alert that appears on clicking of the submit button..

it does not need to have any rules on what has been entered.. it simply appears when the submit button is clicked..

it will be something like :

'Are you sure you want to delete this record, this operation is undoable'

and it has a yes button (which if clicked proceeds to the page the form declares)

and a no button, which if clicked just stays on the page how it is:

Alert Message When Overdue Or Pending
How can i send an alert message to the admin using asp?

here are the scenarios:
1st alert (Pending): if the status is OPEN 3 days before due date
2nd alert (Overdue): if the status is OPEN 3 days after due date

due_date field is being stored in the database when there's a pending or overdue, message will be displayed upon the logging in of the admin.

MSN/ICQ Messages
Does anybody know if it's possible to send MSN/ICQ messages with ASP to registered MSN/ICQ users

Messages
I have been searching high and low, but can't find what I want. I am looking for scripts or some guidance on building a web based messaging thing. where users can leave private messages for other users. Maybe i am using the wrong keywords.

Writing Few Messages
I have the following code as a part of authenticating a system.
If Rs.eof Then
Session("Authenticated") = 0
Response.Write "Sorry, your userid or password did not match"
Response.Write "<BR>"
Response.Write "or you have not registered yet. Please register"
Response.Redirect("login.asp")
Else
Session("Authenticated") = 1
Response.Redirect ("Welcome.asp")
End If
In the first if statement, I would like to display the above messages
before forcing the login.asp page to display. Is is possible to do both
message and contents of login.asp in the same page? Thanks

Formatted Messages
My application saves variable length user-generated messages in an
ACCESS memo field. ASP writes these messages correctly retaining CR LF to
generate new paragraphs. (have checked this in the actual data base).

However , when I retrieve a message into another web page, the CR LF
characters are lost, and the message displays as one long sequence of
unformatted text. Anyone any idea how I can overcome this?

Using WIN XP/FP2000/IIS and the following code:-

<%
set objconn = server.createobject ("ADODB.connection")
set objrec = server.createobject ("ADODB.recordset")
objconn.open "DSN=daters"
strsql = "SELECT messages.text FROM messages WHERE messid = 305 ;"
objrec.open strsql, objconn, adopenforwardonly, adlockoptimistic,adcmdtext
%>

<%=objrec("text")%>

Sending SMS Messages
does anyone know whether it's possible to send an SMS message to a UK mobile phone through an asp script on a website?If so, do u know anything about whether you need to pay the network operator etc.

Display Messages
i used to show eror messages in following fashion

if request.form("username")="" and request.form("password")="" then
response.redirect("login.asp?msg=You have to login in order to access this page")
end if
As a result of which the page is directed to login.asp and msg is displayed but the url becomes like this

www.mysite.com/login.asp?msg=You%20Have%20To%20Login%20In%20Order %20To%20Access%20This%20Page

which looks very bad when we look at it. i want to display the msg but want the url like

www.mywebsite.com/login.asp

Text Messages
I have recently created a mail site as a part of the local intranet. the problem is that as i insert textarea message into the database, everything goes on fine.. but if i try to insert a text with single quotes(eg apostrophes) like vivek's into the database, it gives an error message. i know this is happening because of unmatched quotes in the text.. but i am unable to debug it.

Displaying Messages
I want to display a message if my sql statement in my record set doesnt not return any thing. So if there are no records to display Code:

<%

SQL = "SELECT account, name,segment, cust_id,Profileclass,number_of_transactions,userid , adjamount FROM CC_WO_Account_Details_Segment where segment = '03. Global Mail'"
set RS = server.createobject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS.open SQL, CMS, 2, 2

%>

if the above query doesnt return anything I want to say "no Write-offs for this segment".
how to do that?

Custom 404 Page
I notice that when you have the defualt setup of 404 error
pages the IIS 5.0 log tracks the page the user was trying
to get to and the page they where at when they tryed to
get to the now missing page. I recently wrote my own 404
error page to make it match my site but when I set IIS to
use my custom page it no longer traks the page that the
user was trying to get.

I was told I needed to add some
code to my page to fix this, but I don't know what code to
add. Can someone tell me? (I am useing ASP on the custom
404 error page) I am returning a 404 error response,
everything works fine it is just that IIS does not log
what page the user was trying to get to.

Custom 404 Asp Page
I created my own custom 404 handler and it works, so when I put in

http://www.domain.com/badxxx.html
it produces the correct 404 error and you see
http://www.domain.com/badxxx.html in the url still which is fine.

But when I put in
http://www.domain.com/asdf

it redirects to
http://www.domain.com/index.html

it gives a 302 (moved temporarily) as well as the 404 error.
Why does it do this for not .html files? I dont redirect it at all, and am
using
thestring = Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING") to get the url

but thestring sometimes does not display the asdf depending what I do after
this command, very odd.

does anybody have anyideas as to how to preserve this
http://www.domain.com/asdf in the url and avoid the 302?

Custom Hit Counter
I decide to put a custom Hit Counter on my page (below). Then I won't be
reliant on the standard FrontPage one which uses webbots.

It is called by:

<b>Hit Counter: </b>
The code it includes is below.

OK, it works - sort of.

If I go to Guestbook and then return via the Home button, the counter
increases by 3, not 1.

I can't see why this is happenning.

After returning, a refresh increases it by 2, then another refresh increases
it by 1 ??

I know that many say "Don't use them - it is a sign of an amateur", but I
would at least like to get it working even if I later decide not to use it.

I have thought to make it a conditional include, i.e. if document.referrer
is blank. Is that possible? Code:

Custom Tags
i have a table that users are inserting custom tages ,it looks like :

user_id type value
1 99 television
2 98 beach
3 99 coldplay

etc.
now i have to make a search which will show all the users that typed the same value from the same type .i dont want the query to be a textual query (slow ...)what is the right way to do it ?how can i make a query that JOINs to tables from 2 different databases?

Custom Sessions
how to go about setting up and using custom sessions for user authentication throughout an application?

Custom 404 And Logging
I'm developing an application that uses a custom 404 page to deliver all of my site's content. However, doing things this way renders IIS's regular log files pretty much useless.

Are there any established "best practices" for creating your own logging system? I know that others use this technique and I'm hoping someone has some ideas they can pass along. For example, do you log every single page request or do you just log totals per day, week, or month? How do you deal with the increasing volumes of data? Do you collect referrer data, etc.?