Remote Debugging in Classic Asp

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Hi Everyone,

Is it possible to debug the asp code remotely. I tried with msvsmon.exe but unable to debug. Can anyone provide the way to debug remotely.

Please find below the steps which i followed.

1. There are two servers Test and APP

2. Visual studio is installed in Test

3. Msvsmon.exe is started in APP server

4. Website is opened in Test server IIS (Localhost)

5. Debugger(w3wp.exe) is attached through Attach->process with APP server

6. I could see the connection is attached in APP server and also enable asp debugging in IIS.

I tried the above steps but the breakpoint is not hit.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Manowj.

Posted 15-Apr-12 0:57am

manowj

Updated 29-Aug-19 9:36am

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drasmu · Answer 1 · 2019-08-29T09:37:00

At step 4, instead of opening the website in Test Server IIS, use the Visual Studio "File -> Open -> Open Website..." option and navigate to the folder on the remote (APP) server that has the website you want. You will probably want to map a drive on Test that points to that location on APP to make this part easier.

Once the website files from the APP server's folder are loaded into Visual Studio on TEST, right click the project name there, and on its property page in the Start Options, under "Server" click "Choose custom server" and put in the URL of the website that is running on the APP server.

Open the website link in browser. Then in Visual Studio carry on with your step 5 and attach to the w3wp.exe process. If you don't see it still, select show for all users.

Figured this out based on Remote debugging - Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs[^] and the last post at the bottom of debugging - How do you debug classic ASP? - Stack Overflow[^]