General solution to handle web application errors?

•

What is DaniWeb IT Discussion Community?

You're currently browsing the Web Developers' Lounge section within the Web Development category of DaniWeb, a massive community of 391,557 software developers, web developers, Internet marketers, and tech gurus who are all enthusiastic about making contacts, networking, and learning from each other. In fact, there are 2,680 IT professionals currently interacting right now! Registration is free, only takes a minute and lets you enjoy all of the interactive features of the site.

Join our community!

Please support our Web Developers' Lounge advertiser:

Thread Tools Display Modes

Views: 950 | Replies: 0

•

Join Date: Jun 2006

Posts: 5

Reputation: woojtii is an unknown quantity at this point

Rep Power: 0

Solved Threads: 0

woojtii

Offline

Newbie Poster

General solution to handle web application errors?

Mar 27th, 2007

Hello,

We have many web applications on our web server (Windows 2003 IIS 6.0).

We would like to have one solution to handle all web application errors:

- Redirect to general error website
- Send e-mail alert to server admin

We do not have access to source code of all our web applications (ASP.NET), so we cannot always handle errors in source code.

Do you know any good solution for this scenario?

One of our ideas was to set custom error section in web.config files, and redirect users to ASP.NET web application.

This application has to display user-friendly message and send email.

The problem is that such web page is potentially security hole!
Anyone can access such page and generate hundreds of email messages.

Maybe is it workaround for this?

Thanks!

Wojtek