Server error when uploading a GIF image.

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

I'm getting the following server error when I try to upload a GIF image to a post:

Forum host said...
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
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 remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, 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".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>


Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

Is the server being worked on today?

-Phil

Bruce Bates

Phil -

I don't know the cause of the error, but I've gotten the same error when using the Upload Manager. I doubt it has anything to do with whether the server is being worked on or not.

I doubt this will help you, but when I encountered the problem, I think I zipped the file and uploaded it that way. It certainly ought to either be resolved, or a more concise error message generated. As it is, it really doesn't say much of anything useful.

Regards,

Bruce Bates

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Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Bruce,

I'll bet it's a Microsoft thing. It turns out that the GIFs for which the upload fails can't be rendered in Windows Preview either, even though Opera and Corel PhotoPaint have no trouble with them. The Parallax Forum appears to use Microsoft Active Server Pages. My bet is that the upload fails because the underlying Microsoft serverware misidentifies the file as an invalid GIF.

-Phil

stevenmess2004

It can't be a Microsoft thing unless its a problem with the server. I get the same message when I try to upload a *.spin file from a Mac using Safari.