Summary
This article provides steps for enabling detailed error information.Synopsis
Under certain circumstances you will get the following Spider error:
Error in application
There is an unspecified error. Please contact your administrator.

In this case it is quite difficult to find the reason for the problem.
To overcome this problem we can tell IIS to not to use custom errors but show detailed information.

Discussion
For this follow these steps:
- edit the file httpErrors.config (.\Web\_Settings) and change the errorMode from "Custom" to "Detailed"
1 <httpErrorserrorMode="Custom"defaultResponseMode="Redirect"existingResponse="Auto"> - edit the file customErrors.config (.\Web\_Settings) and change the mode from "On" to "Off"
1 <customErrorsmode="On"defaultRedirect="~/Info/Error.aspx"> - reset the IIS (using IISRESET)
Additional Information
This happens due to activated custom errors (default)
Products
LCM6
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