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March 13, 2008
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Getting 500 Messages Instead of CF Errors

  • March 13, 2008
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OK, I admit it. I write programs with occasional errors. And boy, CF catches each and every one of them. We migrated from CF5 to CF7 last year, and we began getting this weird problem: instead of geting the expected ColdFusion error messages, we only get the IIS 500 error screen. Not always, just about 10% of the time. The actual error always appears in the application log, and we can eventually get the error to appear on the screen by inserting and moving around a CFABORT tag. This is not anything critical, but it would be great if someone else had this problem and would share the solution.
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    October 29, 2008
    I still get these errors, and no one has responded. It wouldn't be so bad if it only happened with REAL errors (syntax, bad dates, database problems, etc). The REAL problem is that we get this essentially blank screen for USER errors defined by form input qualifiers, e.g.,