title: <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" /> not working?
body: <p>This seems silly but for whatever reason the httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" command isn't working in my web.config file. I keep getting a 500 error on the site I just uploaded to godaddy using Plesk. Given the 500 error is extremely vague and this is the first site I've launched, I don't have the experience to scroll through the web.config file and figure out exactly what's causing the error. I was counting on the detailed errors to help me find out what's causing the issue and low and behold - no detailed error messages. I've messed with the hierarchy in my web.config to see if maybe it was placed too far down in the code to work, moving it up didn't help either. </p>
  
  <p>My web.config file is: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;!--
    For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
    https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=301880
    --&gt;
  &lt;configuration&gt;
    &lt;configSections&gt;
      &lt;section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" /&gt;
      &lt;!-- For more information on Entity Framework configuration, visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=237468 --&gt;
    &lt;/configSections&gt;
  
    &lt;system.webServer&gt;
      &lt;httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" /&gt;
      &lt;modules&gt;
        &lt;remove name="TelemetryCorrelationHttpModule" /&gt;
        &lt;add name="TelemetryCorrelationHttpModule" type="Microsoft.AspNet.TelemetryCorrelation.TelemetryCorrelationHttpModule, Microsoft.AspNet.TelemetryCorrelation" preCondition="managedHandler" /&gt;
        &lt;remove name="ApplicationInsightsWebTracking" /&gt;
        &lt;add name="ApplicationInsightsWebTracking" type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.ApplicationInsightsHttpModule, Microsoft.AI.Web" preCondition="managedHandler" /&gt;
      &lt;/modules&gt;
      &lt;validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" /&gt;
      &lt;handlers&gt;
        &lt;remove name="BlockViewHandler"/&gt;
        &lt;add name="BlockViewHandler" path="*" verb="*" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler" /&gt;
      &lt;/handlers&gt;
    &lt;/system.webServer&gt;  
  
    &lt;system.web.webPages.razor&gt;
      &lt;host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /&gt;
      &lt;pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage"&gt;
        &lt;namespaces&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" /&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" /&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" /&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Optimization"/&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Routing" /&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="CuttingEdgeLighting" /&gt;
        &lt;/namespaces&gt;
      &lt;/pages&gt;
    &lt;/system.web.webPages.razor&gt;
  
    &lt;connectionStrings&gt;
      &lt;add name="CuttingEdgeLightingContext" connectionString="Data Source=(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB; Initial Catalog=CuttingEdgeLightingContext-20181114095244; Integrated Security=True; MultipleActiveResultSets=True; AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|CuttingEdgeLightingContext-20181114095244.mdf" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /&gt;
      &lt;add name="NewVendorContext" connectionString="Data Source=(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB; Initial Catalog=NewVendorContext-20181114100138; Integrated Security=True; MultipleActiveResultSets=True; AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|NewVendorContext-20181114100138.mdf" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /&gt;
    &lt;/connectionStrings&gt;
  
    &lt;appSettings&gt;
      &lt;add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0" /&gt;
      &lt;add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" /&gt;
      &lt;add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" /&gt;
      &lt;add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" /&gt;
    &lt;/appSettings&gt;
  
    &lt;system.web&gt;
      &lt;trust level="Full" /&gt;
      &lt;customErrors mode="Off" /&gt;
      &lt;compilation targetFramework="4.6.1" /&gt;
      &lt;httpRuntime targetFramework="4.6.1" /&gt;
      &lt;httpModules&gt;
        &lt;add name="TelemetryCorrelationHttpModule" type="Microsoft.AspNet.TelemetryCorrelation.TelemetryCorrelationHttpModule, Microsoft.AspNet.TelemetryCorrelation" /&gt;
        &lt;add name="ApplicationInsightsWebTracking" type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.ApplicationInsightsHttpModule, Microsoft.AI.Web" /&gt;
      &lt;/httpModules&gt;
      &lt;compilation&gt;
        &lt;assemblies&gt;
          &lt;add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /&gt;
        &lt;/assemblies&gt;
      &lt;/compilation&gt;
    &lt;/system.web&gt;
    &lt;runtime&gt;
      &lt;assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="Antlr3.Runtime" publicKeyToken="eb42632606e9261f" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-3.5.0.2" newVersion="3.5.0.2" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource" publicKeyToken="cc7b13ffcd2ddd51" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.0.3.1" newVersion="4.0.3.1" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="Newtonsoft.Json" publicKeyToken="30ad4fe6b2a6aeed" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-12.0.0.0" newVersion="12.0.0.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Optimization" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-1.1.0.0" newVersion="1.1.0.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="WebGrease" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-1.6.5135.21930" newVersion="1.6.5135.21930" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.AspNet.TelemetryCorrelation" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-1.0.4.0" newVersion="1.0.4.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Helpers" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.WebPages" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-5.2.7.0" newVersion="5.2.7.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
      &lt;/assemblyBinding&gt;
    &lt;/runtime&gt;
    &lt;entityFramework&gt;
      &lt;defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.LocalDbConnectionFactory, EntityFramework"&gt;
        &lt;parameters&gt;
          &lt;parameter value="mssqllocaldb" /&gt;
        &lt;/parameters&gt;
      &lt;/defaultConnectionFactory&gt;
      &lt;providers&gt;
        &lt;provider invariantName="System.Data.SqlClient" type="System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer" /&gt;
      &lt;/providers&gt;
    &lt;/entityFramework&gt;
    &lt;system.codedom&gt;
      &lt;compilers&gt;
        &lt;compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=2.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:default /nowarn:1659;1699;1701" /&gt;
        &lt;compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=2.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:default /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\&amp;quot;Web\&amp;quot; /optionInfer+" /&gt;
      &lt;/compilers&gt;
    &lt;/system.codedom&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  &lt;!--ProjectGuid: 52BD6DE8-5D87-4F54-BC2F-6D6D5395BA3B--&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any assistance at all would be a greater help than you can imagine! I've been trying to get this site up for three days now. </p>