IIS7 500 error on asp.net MVC web application

Question

I have published my asp.net mvc application to my Server 2008 machine running IIS7. When trying to view the site from another machine I just get a 500 internal server error. The application runs just fine on my dev machine. Where can I start to resolve this problem? Thanks!

Answer 1

There are a couple of things you can check:

1. Check the Event Log on the server.
2. Remote desktop onto the server and request the page, that way you'll see any errors from ASP.NET. If you can't RD in, you can change the web.config to enable `Remote` errors in the `customErrors` section.