[Mono-list] new install stopped working

[Daniel Lo Nigro]

Web.config is an XML file so you need to use XML comments to comment things
out (surround the whole block by <!-- at the beginning and --> at the end).
:)


On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:55 AM, DevLOOP <devloop at flight.us> wrote:

>
> On December 30, 2012 at 3:33 PM DevLOOP <devloop at flight.us> wrote:
>
> >
> >  On December 30, 2012 at 2:09 PM "Kornél Pál" <kornelpal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >  > On 12/30/2012 7:27 PM, DevLOOP wrote:
> >  > > Description: An application error occurred on the server. The
> current
> >  > > custom
> >  > > error settings for this application prevent the details of the
> >  > > application error
> >  > > from being viewed (for security reasons).
> >  > > Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be
> >  > > viewable,
> >  > > please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config"
> configuration
> >  > > file
> >  > > located in the root directory of the current web application. This
> >  > > <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to
> "Off".
> >  >
> >  > You should follow the instructions in that message to enable
> displaying
> >  > a more helpful error message including a stack trace.
> >  >
> >
> >  Done (I was confused earlier about the web.config file -- where my app
> root
> > was (i hadn't explicitly created an "app", per se))
> >
> >  Now I'm getting this error message:
> >
> >  ------------ begin quote ------------------
> >
> >  System.IO.FileNotFoundException
> >
> >  Could not load file or assembly 'MySql.Data' or one of its
> dependencies. The
> > system cannot find the file specified.
> >
> >  Description: HTTP 500.Error processing request.
> >  Details: Non-web exception. Exception origin (name of application or
> object):
> > mscorlib.
> >
> >  ---------------- end quote --------------
> >
> >  followed by "Exception stack trace..."
> >
>
>
> OK.  The above was actually caused by an apparently bad (randomly grabbed)
> web.config I plastered earlier in my web root, which contained
>
> <compilation>
>    <assemblies>
>       <add assembly="MySql.Data"/>
>    </assemblies>
> </compilation>
>
> and I had used the pound sign to (try to) comment out the Mysql.Data lines,
> which apparently didn't comment them out, which made me assume that the
> mysql
> error was triggered by something else (hence my previous post)
>
> Plus I had an incredible coincidence of a variety of DISSIMILAR syntax
> errors
> across my three test files, plus a case-sensitivity served file error --
> all
> were masked by the same generic runtime error message but are now clearly
> differentiated...
>
> Whew! thanks for the help, and sorry about the nuisance -- i DID say I was
> a
> total beginner (I can't even comment out configuration lines)
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