in the Web.Config file there is a setting called CustomErrors, for production environment you will have this turned On to show a CustomError page, but if you are working locally, or just want to see the error you can set this to be Off, and then you should see the YSOD that you crave!
There is some useful info here about debugging with Umbraco that might help:
I get 404 instead of yellow screen of death. How to change?
Hi
I am pretty new to razor and umbraco coming from a wp background. I'm working on a site that I was told was wp but it's umbraco.
Right now any errors in my templates generate an error page that says
But I want to see the yellow screen of death so I can see what went wrong and get helpful information.
I have got the following set in webconfig. how do i turn on browser errors?
Hi Tara
in the Web.Config file there is a setting called CustomErrors, for production environment you will have this turned On to show a CustomError page, but if you are working locally, or just want to see the error you can set this to be Off, and then you should see the YSOD that you crave!
There is some useful info here about debugging with Umbraco that might help:
https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Getting-Started/Code/Debugging/index-v7
and also info on where the tracelogs live
https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Getting-Started/Code/Debugging/Logging/index-v7
which is another good place to look for underlying errors.
regards
Marc
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