Question

I have published an ASP.NET MVC3 site. It runs great. However, looking back at my web.config file, I was not sure if some of the values I used are correct for publishing versus for developing. These configurations are in the <system.web> section.

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    <system.web>
    <httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" executionTimeout="200" maxRequestLength="20000000"/>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
...

I read here ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e1f13641.aspx ) that using debug=true in compilation will disregard the executionTimeout of 200, and use a default value of 110. This seems to be the case, and the site is setup to allow very large amounts of files to be uploaded all at once. However, with only 110 seconds, not much can be uploaded.

My question is this: Is the correct setting to publish a live site for debug “false”? In addition, is requestValidationMode=”2.0″ still safe to use considering asp.net is now on version 4 (soon to be 4.5)?

Answer 1

Validationmode 2.0 is not the framework version and can stay like that.

Put debug=false and you are fine.