Debugging a published site on IIS

[JB]

I've a site which i have copied over from an old server to a new
server and now it doesnt seem to work.
I've been looking through the source code and i know *where* the
problem is, but i dont know *what* the problem is.
Its throwing an exception for some reason, but with debug mode being
turned off i dont know why.

Is there anyway to view more details on the site running on IIS? I
can't rebuild the site unfortunately. I'm sure its a server
configuration error but at the moment i've no way of narrowing down
what the error would be.
A stack trace would be perfect.

 

[Michael Nemtsev [MVP]]

Hello JB,

for such reason using logging libs are very helpful, when u can turn full
loging on production system and get all necessary info

right now I see only one solution - use winDbg to make the dump file and
google the article how to use asp.net dumps

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Michael Nemtsev [.NET/C# MVP] :: blog: http://spaces.live.com/laflour

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" (c) Michelangelo


J> I've a site which i have copied over from an old server to a new
J> server and now it doesnt seem to work.
J> I've been looking through the source code and i know *where* the
J> problem is, but i dont know *what* the problem is.
J> Its throwing an exception for some reason, but with debug mode being
J> turned off i dont know why.
J> Is there anyway to view more details on the site running on IIS? I
J> can't rebuild the site unfortunately. I'm sure its a server
J> configuration error but at the moment i've no way of narrowing down
J> what the error would be.
J> A stack trace would be perfect.

 

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

If you put in an Exception handler in Application_Error that logs all the
exception information (either to a file or database) this will make it much
easier to track down the exact issue even to the very line of code, assuming
you've deployed the .pdb files.