i just moved from my old host to Godaddy, which seems to be a worst web host with no support.
i moved my asp website (written in classic asp) to the new godaddy windows hosting. but when i run the site i get the below error
HTTP/1.1 New Application Failed
this site worked perfectly with my previous host.
below is what i have in my web.config file
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" />
<asp scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true"/>
</system.webServer>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
<compilation debug="true"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
can someone tell me why am i getting that error and how can i fix it?
any help will be appreciated.
2 Answers
I had the same issue moving a website from one hosting account (classic windows) to another (plesk), both on GoDaddy. After much headache troubleshooting, I managed to fix it by removing the whole <asp> tag from the web.config file;
<!-- <asp scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true"/> -->
IIS 8 (only option in plesk) does not support this option altogether and configuring detailed error messaging is done differently using:
<httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" existingResponse="PassThrough" />
You can find further instructions on this GoDaddy support page
I just encountered the same error this morning after renaming some Websites in IIS. A restart of IIS got my sites up and running again in seconds. Presumably the .config files are read on startup and 'likely' the cause of this error for me.
