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Shaun Hendricks Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 19 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shaun Hendricks Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: New Installation: 404 Page not Found Posted: 19 December 2003 at 12:02pm
	Hello all: I've installed the files but upon calling out the default.asp file from the URL line, I get a 404. No, it's not a 500 according to the advanced information, it says it's a 404. This page in for an INTRANET application and I can't point anyone to it to see it, you'll never make it through the firewall. The issue is not ASP activation because this site runs .NET all the time and it requires it to even operate. I've never tried ASP alone, since we are standardized on .NET. If this is the problem, I would be surprised. I've set all the permissions for write access of the IUSR to the folders in question. I haven't gotten the site to even recognize the existance of the default.asp page. Anyone have a clue as to what I could try to fix this? Any help would be appreciated. I've tried just about everything that I can think of off the top of my head. Server Specs: IBM X335 Series, more resources than should be legal. Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: Standard Edition -Roles: Application, File&Print. ASP support is enabled. I currently have .Net pages opening MS Access DB files that work fine. Curious as to why I can't find the default.asp page!! Help!

Shaun Hendricks Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 19 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shaun Hendricks Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 December 2003 at 3:40pm
	Well, I've narrowed it down to either the code in the ASP page or some path constraint that the code is expecting. I have been able to make simple HTML files in the same directory and they run just fine. I made a simple ASP.NET file in the same directory and it ran fine. In looking at the code, I'm wondering why Server Side Includes are being used to call the other ASP pages. While the server has Frontpage Extensions enabled on it, I'm not yet familiar enough with Server 2003 to see if SSI is enabled (I can see FPX and ASP is), and I'm a little leery of enabling SSI (if it isn't already) because of the security risk it can involve or even if it can co-exist with FrontPage Extensions (I've been told it can). I'm not even positive this is the problem at all but I can't get the default.asp page to even run without the 404 Error, and since I can call HTML and .NET pages from the same folder, I have to assume that the default.asp page is at least loading and then failing out during code execution while trying to load another page. If anyone else has any ideas, I'd LOVE to hear them, otherwise I'll need to examine other products. Thanks for you time!

Mart Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 30 November 2002 Status: Offline Points: 2304	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mart Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 December 2003 at 3:48pm
	Try reinstalling web wiz forums, maybe you missed a file

bki1 Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 23 February 2003 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 18	Post Options Post Reply Quote bki1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 December 2003 at 4:07pm
	Did you enable parent paths ? That solve all my problems.

Shaun Hendricks Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 19 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shaun Hendricks Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 December 2003 at 4:48pm
	I'll try the parent paths, but again, that's a security risk as the most common attack method is by the path 'shotgun' (having a bot fire off commonly used pathing or using the parent path to find a loophole). URLScan in IIS5 stops that but I have no idea if IIS6 has such a beast built in. Thanks for the ideas! I'm trying anything at this point. Also, I haven't seen an 'install' program, just unizipping the files to their respective resting place and leaving the recursive folder option on. If there is an install program, I could be a complete dummy and have missed this entirely!

Phat Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 23 February 2003 Status: Offline Points: 386	Post Options Post Reply Quote Phat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 December 2003 at 5:26pm
	No Install program just unzip as you have done. Try editing the code and taking out the ssi includes out of the default.asp you will probably get other errors but it will tell you if that is ths problem.

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 December 2003 at 4:10am
	Try turning off friendly HTTP error messages in IE
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Shaun Hendricks Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 19 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shaun Hendricks Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 December 2003 at 8:54am
	Sorry: I've been out sick for a few days. First off, thank you to everyone that has responded. The parent paths were not the issue, turned them on and it had no impact. I do have friendly HTTP messages off, that's how I know I'm getting a genuine 404 error message. I haven't tried deleting the SSI calls yet. Before I do that, I'm thinking it might be easier to turn on SSI (if it's not already.) Are there any IIS 6.0 guru's out there that can tell me where to look and how to get or check that SSI's are allowed? Microsoft's help on the matter isn't any. I know that FrontPage Extensions are turned on, and I've checked FrontPage Includes with the server. They work okay. I'm at a loss how to find out if SSI's are allowed and if they are even turned on, or how to turn them on if they aren't. I'm not as familiar with ASP as I am with .NET. Isn't there a way in ASP to call an external page for inclusion without using an SSI? I don't want to do FrontPage calls for this purpose because I don't want to deal with editing in FrontPage, while easy, it's a pain to work with ASP in it. I tend to use WebMatrix for that. Passing such knowledge on earns BIG karma points. Thank you all.

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