SharePoint – An unexpected error has occurred

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In SharePoint I am getting the following when I go to my new web part page:

Error

An unexpected error has occurred.

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I have tried the following to get a more useful error message:

In web.config I have:

<SafeMode MaxControls="200" CallStack="true" DirectFileDependencies="10" TotalFileDependencies="50" AllowPageLevelTrace="true">

and

<customErrors mode=“Off“/>

I have added the following to my web.config in my layout folder

<SharePoint>
    <SafeMode MaxControls="200" CallStack="true" DirectFileDependencies="10" TotalFileDependencies="50" AllowPageLevelTrace="false" />
</SharePoint>

What else can I do see a stack trace?

Best Answer

If you would like to know what exact error description is, then you need to make following changes in your SharePoint web application web.config file.

  1. CallStack="false" changed to CallStack="true"

  2. <customErrors mode="On" /> changed to <customErrors mode="Off" />

Save it and do IISRESET from command line.

Open Page again then you will get exact error.

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