Hi, In an ASP.NET application, I need to do some changes on every CSS file sent. So I created an HttpHandler (inside the app itself), added: <add verb="*" path="*.css" type="MyWebsite.CssTestHandler,MyWebsite"/> to Web.config in system.web/httpHandlers and modified the handler like this: public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext conte...
Sorry folks, my search fu was low when looking for a version of this question. It's asked and answered here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3004210/app-config-transformation-for-visual-studio-2010 Basically, the question above. The new config transformations that are provided for a web.config file for different environments are re...
I working on a custom 404 page and keep getting a 500 error from IIS7. After doing some research I found I need to set "Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors=true;" Where do I set that value? Can it be set in anyway with php or within the web.config file? my 404 web.config code is: <customErrors mode="On"> <error statusCode="404" redire...
Hi, I've made a custom 404 error page in my codebase and have the following lines in the web.config to direct the customer to this page in the event of a 404. <httpErrors errorMode="Custom"> <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1"/> <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="pgeNotFound.html" responseMode="File"/> ...
I thought about saving all sessions variables to hiddens and then resaving those values back into session after I changed the web config..but there has GOT to be another way. Any help? ...
Hello I have web application and and DB connection settings are stored in web.config The problem is that this application is deployed to multiple servers and connection string may vary. So I would like to have the same web.config on all server and actual configuration settings be externalized, for example to XXX.properties - this is pr...
Hi I have a comment form on my website on contact.aspx. I want to be able to put up a redirect from /comment (no extension) to point to contact.aspx. I set up the following url mapping in my web.config and when I test locally it works fine. When I post it to production, the redirect doesn't happen and I get the IIS 404 error. <system.w...
Ok, Here's the skinny I have a smallish Visual Studio 2008 web application that I'm attempting to set up a Web Deployment Project with. If I skip attempting to build the Deployment Project, the application builds successfully. If I build the Deployment Project, I get the following error: Error 208: It is an error to use a secti...
Is there any way of doing something like this? <location path="/(view|edit)post.aspx\?id=[7-9][0-9]+"> <system.web> <authorization> <allow roles="AdminPublishers"/> <deny users="*"/> </authorization> </system.web> </location> Authorization is just an example. I would like to be able to do other thin...
This is a solution rather than a question actually. The problem was: I had a SharePoint web part which used a WCF service. To consume the web service in my web part, I needed to modify the SharePoint web.config to include bindings and end points. To be able to do this, I put my web service configuration into a text file as a template. T...
Hi everyone. I am trying to add a way into our own built cms system a way to programmatically update impersonation rules in the web.config. In essence this is pretty easy and know how to do it, however (hence the question) I am trying to edit an impersonation rule in a system.web section inside a <location /> section <location allowOver...
Hello, I have published an asp.net application to a sub directory of my IIS application. I know that the web.config must exist at the root for several of the properties to work. So I have moved my web.config to the root of the application. I get the following error: Could not load type 'ProjectName.myTypeName'. I suspect that not hav...
I'm trying to add something like this in Machine.config: <location path="elmah.axd"> <system.web> <authorization> <allow users="domain\johnny" /> <deny users="*"/> </authorization> </system.web> </location> This works great in the application-level web.config, but I can't get it to take ...
When your web.config or app.config file has an appsettings entry, what is the best way to refer to its key in your code file? Developers I have worked with have differing opinions on this. Some say to hard code the string and others suggest that there should be a file containing string constants and in your code, you use the constant a...
I'm trying to get a WCF web service to work with SSL, as you can imagine it works on my machine, however when I run it on the production environments I get this instead: Could not find a base address that matches scheme http for the endpoint with binding BasicHttpBinding. Registered base address schemes are [https]. Despite many h...
I have a connection string in my web config: <add name="MyConString" connectionString="Server=dbsrv;User ID=myDbUser;Password=somepass"word" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> As you see, there is a quotation sign ( " ) in the password (given from other dept. I can't change this db users password). How do I have to escape the qu...
Hi, I am developing a website and has some password that need to be stored in web.config. I intend to store it in app.settings. However, base on what I understand, if I use DPAPI to secure the data, the entire app.settings section is encrypted. This means that it is not possible for me to mix configuration information like number of row...
I have a website that makes use of a web.config. I tried adding in the following code: <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="error.htm"> <error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" /> </customErrors> But it doesn't seem to work. Errors still show up. Could I be putting it in the wrong place? Sample: <authentic...
I keep reading that an ASP.NET based web site should have custom errors enabled in the web.config because exceptions will show a stack trace. I may have a faulty memory (currently don't have access to an ASP.NET website under development), but I thought as long as Compilation debug="false" in the web.config file, then the stack trace wi...
Is it possible to make some values in my Web.Config file dependent on whether I am building a release or debug based ASP.NET application? ...