How to display real Error in Sharepoint web site

by

Just perform the following steps to display the real error happened in Sharepoint site instead of a generice Unknow error message.

  1. Backup your web.config of web application
  2. In SafeMode tag under SharePoint change 

              CallStack=”true”

              MaxControls=”200”

After changing, your SafeMode node will be similar to following

<SafeMode MaxControls=”200″ CallStack=”true” DirectFileDependencies=”10″ TotalFileDependencies=”50″ AllowPageLevelTrace=”false”>

3.  Set  customErrors mode=”Off“

 

 

Share