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Seting up IIS 5.0 and ASP.NET

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srvblues00

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I am trying to get my local computer setup to be my development "server." I have installed IIS 5.0 and the .NET framework. I can load plain old html files and images all day long, but how do I make .aspx files work? They load, but only the bare html parts of them show up, and the status bar says "error on page." I'm not sure what's wrong, so I don't know what to look for to fix. Any ideas here?
 
If you installed the .NET framework then IIS, your ASP.NET applications will not work. It will work if you reinstall the .NET framework after IIS is installed.
 
Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
If you installed the .NET framework then IIS, your ASP.NET applications will not work. It will work if you reinstall the .NET framework after IIS is installed.
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Ah ha! I bet that's the problem, because I know the installs happenend that way. I'll uninst and then reinst the .NET framework and we'll see what happens. Thanks.
 
Ok, i just reinstalled the .NET framework, and now the server is asking me for a username/passwd/domain. How do I set the permissions so this thing acts like a normal server? Normal meaning anyone (locally or on the net) can browse to it like any other normal website?
 
I'm getting closer.. I just gave the IUSR acct read & execute, list contents, and read permissions on the root directory (inheritable). Now when I try to run any aspx file, i get an error that says "Server cannot access application directory 'e:\httpd\'. The directory does not exist or is not accessible because of security settings." What security setting would that be?

EDIT: I know these aspx files that I am trying to run work correctly - exact copies are currently on a server on the net and work with no problems.
 
Now you need to add the ASPNET user to the root of your site. IIS5 and ASP.NET is sort of a hack done by MS to get it out earlier. ASP.NET is builtin to IIS6 so it won't have these issues.
 
Now it's kind of loading the aspx files, but it's saying it can't find a library in /aspnet_client When i go to /aspnet_client, it gives me a 403 forbidden. This is a virtual dir, correct? do I need to change the permissions for that as well?
 
Hmm... the stuff in the aspnet_client directory contains a couple javascript files. The ASPNET user's permissions must be inherited by all the sub-directories. Or,
the aspnet_client directory doesn't have read permissions by the IUSR.... not 100% sure. Let me know what you do to fix it because I would be interested in knowing
just in case this problems occurs for our clients.
 
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