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SharePoint, Web Programming & SEO Resources

Web-Resource.org - SharePoint, Web Programming & SEO Resources Web-resource.org provide a range of resources from around the web for Web Development & Programming, SharePoint & InfoPath Development and Search Engine Optimisation. Resources have been hand selected by the team at Web-Resource.org, and suggested by users. SharePoint & InfoPath Resources A range of tools and resources are provided by Web-Resource.org for Administering, Designing, Customising and Developing a SharePoint environment. Resources include a range of articles with tips, how to's, tutorials, third party utilities for administering and developing SharePoint. Tutorials are also available to help with InfoPath form development and integration with SharePoint. SharePoint Design & Customisation resources include tutorials for creating and customising Data View Web Parts to display data from SharePoint lists which is formatted based on metadata values for each list item. This include...

Where is SharePoint web.config?

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There is a separate web.config file for each Web Application / IIS Website which is running an instance of SharePoint. For example, if Sharepoint, Central Admin and the MySite host are all running as separate Web applications (different Application pools) on separate IIS sites, there will be a web.config file in the root of the virtual directory for each application. There is also a separate web.config file which contains configuration details for the "_layouts", "_catalogs", etc directories of SharePoint sites. You should not make changes to the web.config file in a production environment, or while in production. Back up your entire SharePoint environment, including all databases prior to commencing any major troubleshooting or configuration changes. You should attempt and test any modifications to the web.config file in a non-production environment which is configured the same as the live environment. Once you are confident the the changes apply the necessa...

SharePoint Web.Config: How to Show Full Errors

Enable display of error details and stack trace when an error occurs Replace the following error messages with a more meaningful description of the cause of the error by disabling custom errors and enabling the track trace to be displayed as well. An unexpected error has occurred An error occurred during the processing of... To display full errors and the stack trace of the error, you need to modify the web.config file for the Web Application which SharePoint is running on. There are a number of web.config files required to configure various components of SharePoint. For help finding the correct web.config file, see Where is SharePoint web.config? See notes below for more information about modifying the web.config file to display errors. Enable Custom Errors: Set the customErrors mode to "Off" Find: <system.web> ... <customErrors mode="On" /> Change To: <system.web> ... <customErrors mode="Off" /> Enable the ...