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Asked: 2012-06-30 01:33:07 +0800 CST

IIS get full error message for failed requests

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I have IIS set-up and serving my webservice. Unfortunately if the webservice throws an exception, all I get is a blue box with the title failed request.

What options do I have to actually see what went wrong? I'd prefer to get the exception message and a stack trace.

I already set-up "Failed Request Tracing" but the directory remains empty. If possible I'd prefer to get the stack trace in the browser directly.

Just if this matters: I have an IIS 7.5 on a Win 7 64 Pro box. The Webservice is a WCF C# project.

windows iis iis-7.5 wcf

2 Answers

  1. You will find the errors in the eventlog, but having them in the browser is indeed more convenient (especially during development). To do that: turn on debugging in your web.config. Also, switch custom errors off or set them to "Remote only".

    <configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off" />
        <compilation debug="true" />
    </system.web>
</configuration>
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  2. Try this in your service behavior in web.config:

     <behavior name="Your.Service.Type">
    <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
    <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
 </behavior>
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