ASP.NET is a flexible set of tools and web development technologies that allows you to employ a number of applications based on ASP.NET framework. You can configure the ASP in order for ASP.NET applications to function in a desirable way.
To configure ASP.NET Settings for a site:
1. Go to Websites & Domains > ASP.NET Settings
Make sure that ASP.NET is switched on in Websites & Domains > Hosting Settings.
2. Set up the strings in Connection string manager that determine database connection data for ASP.NET applications that use databases.
- To add a string, click the Add connection string link and enter the required data into the Name and Connection Parameters input fields.
- To remove a string, click the Remove link next to it.
3. Set up custom error messages that will be returned by ASP.NET applications in the Custom Error Settings field:
To set the custom error messages mode, select an appropriate option from the Custom error mode menu:
- On - custom error messages are enabled.
- Off - custom error messages are disabled and detailed errors are to be shown.
- RemoteOnly - custom error messages are displayed only to remote clients, and ASP.NET errors are shown to the local host users.
To add a custom error message (which will be applied unless the Off mode was selected), enter the values in the Status Code and Redirect URL fields,
- Status Code defines the HTTP status code resulting in redirection to the error page.
- Redirect URL defines the web address of the error page presenting information about the error to the client.
Due to possible conflicts, you cannot add a custom error message with an error code that already exists, but you can redefine the URL for the existing code.
To remove a custom error message from the list, click the Remove link next to it.
4. Configure compilation settings in the Compilation and Debugging field:
- To determine the programming language to be used as default in dynamic compilation files, choose an entry from Default web page language list.
- To enable compiling retail binaries, leave the Switch on debugging checkbox empty.
- To enable compiling debug binaries, select the Switch on debugging checkbox. In this case, the source code fragments containing error will be shown in a diagnostic page message.
5. Configure encoding settings for ASP.NET applications in the Globalization Settings section:
- To set an adopted encoding of all incoming requests, enter an encoding value into the Request encoding field (default is utf-8).
- To set an adopted encoding of all responses, enter an encoding value into the Response encoding field (default is utf-8).
- To set an encoding which must be used by default for parsing of .aspx, .asmx, and .asax files, enter an encoding value into the File encoding field (default is Windows-1252).
- To set a culture which must be used by default for processing incoming web requests, select an appropriate item from the Culturelist.
- To set a culture which must be used by default when processing searches for a locale-dependent resource, select an appropriate item from the UI Culture list.
6. Set a code access security trust level for ASP.NET applications in the Code Access Security field.
- CAS trust level is a security zone to which applications execution is assigned, defining what server resources the applications will have access to.
7. Set client session parameters in the Session Settings field:
- To set up the default authentication mode for applications, select an appropriate item from the Authentication mode list. Windows authentication mode should be selected if any form of IIS authentication is used.
- To set up time that a session can remain idle, type the number of minutes into the Session timeout box.
8. Click OK to apply all changes.
