customize "500 there is no web application configured to service your request" error

[Taco Fleur]

Hello all,

 

I was wondering if anyone knew how to customize the 500 error "500 there is no web application configured to service your request"?

I'm pretty confident I saw an article how to do it a while ago, and now I can't find it.

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[Blair McKenzie]

It sounds like the error you get when CF isn't available. Most webservers allow you to customise those pages.

If you want to customise CF 500 error pages, you can change the Site Wide error page in CF admin. The only catch is that it has to be the same page for every application on the server, so if you have more than one you need to put in a switch. The amount of CF you can use in it depends on what kind of error threw to the page, but I'm not really familiar with all that.

Blair

[Andrew Scott]

Taco,

 

That’s an IIS configuration for error templating. As far as I am aware the server throws a 500 error and is outside of Coldfusion to capture.

 

Andrew Scott
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
www.aegeon.com.au
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[Taco Fleur]

When I looked at it a few weeks ago, I first went through the IIS templates, they did not match the text shown when CF is restarting.

 

I then did some searching on how to customize it, I found an article about it, but I can't seem to find it now. I know it did not have to do with IIS... It also wasn't the site wide error handler that had to be modified. I remember having to dig into the cf config files to get it customized.. hmm, will have to do some more searching.

 

thanks.

 

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[Andrew Scott]

Actually, Coldfusion can throw a server 500 error, on rare occasions, when the server errors and there is no output to the browser. CF will throw a server 500 error, but I am not 100% sure about this. But when CF throws that error, it is IIS that takes over and displays the error.

 

That type of error has caught me out a few times over the years.

Andrew Scott
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
www.aegeon.com.au
Phone: +613  9015 8628
Mobile: 0404 998 273

 

 

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Subject: [cfaussie] Re: customize "500 there is no web application configured to service your request" error

[Andrew Scott]

Taco,

 

Yeah, there are some templates in the directories that CF uses for exceptions. These are generally in the

 

wwwroot\WEB-INF\exception

 

And yes that is a Hardcoded Coldfusion exception at runtime.