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The first thing to check is that it is a 404 page not found error and not a 500 internal server error.

If it is a 500 internal server error you need to turn off friendly HTTP errors in IE so you can see the real error.

If it is a 404 page not found error make sure the path to the file is correct.
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Hello WebWiz-Bruce,

Thank you for your message.
 
IE returns the 404 page "The Page cannot be found". I also unchecked the "Show friendly HTTP error messages" in the Advance tab of "Internet Options". Still the same result.
 
I am wondering: I have Visual studio.net installed on the machine. Have never used it as yet, though. Would the presence of this software have any influence on ASP program's behavior?
 
Thanks in advance...

 

 
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It may do as it may change the path to the IIS default website.

Have a look at the default websites properties in IIS and see what the path is. It should be C:\InetPub\wwwroot, but this may have been changed by Visual Studio, in which case you would need to move your MyFirstASP.asp to this new location.

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Hello WebWiz-Bruce,

Thank you for your message.

In the default website properties of IIS, the "Home Directory" tab has the following information:

Local Path: c:\Inetpub\wwwroot

Read, Log visits, Index this resource checked.

In "Application Settings" in this same tab:

Application Name: Default Application

Starting Point: <Default Website>

Execute Permissions: Scripts Only

Application Protection: Medium (Pooled)

In the "Web Site" tab:

IP Address: (All Unassigned)

TCP Port: 80

Connection Timeout: 900 seconds

HTTP Keep-Alives Enabled is checked

Enable Logging is checked

Active Log Format is W3C Extended Log File Format.

There is one tab for ASP.NET also...

 
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I have just remembered that Visual Studio installs it's own web server, which may stop IIS from working correctly
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Hi,
It is working!
The only change I made, while noting down the contents of the tabs in order to write them here, was to change the value of "Description" field in the "Web Site Identification" box of the "Web Site" tab to something meaningful.
Now, to see if this small content change really made any difference, I have gone back and deleted the string I had inserted earlier, clicked Apply and OK, and ran the program again. It is still working!
Perhaps, the only justification for this error is that the "Web Site" description has to be given some value, even it is blank, for the ASP to work. May be the tutorial for installing the IIS needs to be updated to incorporate this small point?
Thank you everyone for sparing your time to resolve this problem.

 

One corollary to this issue is: If my .asp file is located in some other folder on some other partition, can I still run it? In the IIS snap-in, I had created a new "virtual directory" by right-clicking on the website that appears below the "Web Sites" folder in the inverted tree. I have a .asp file located in this virtual directory, which is essentially a folder on a separate partition. In the URL field of the browser, what address do I give to run this file?

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I very much doubt changing the description made it work, however as Visual Studio installs it's own web server it more than likely disabled the IIS default website, by changing it's properties re enabled the IIS default website.

I would suggest that you do a bit of reseach on Google to findout how you can have the Visual Studio web server and IIS working side by side, or disable the one in Visual Studio to prevent an further issues.

Your other questions, yes you can crate virtual directories in IIS to run ASP websites. The path would be http://localhost/virtual_directory_name
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Hello WebWiz-Bruce,

Thank you for your message.

What you are saying makes sense. Changing one of the properties of the website and clicking on Apply must have nudged ASP.NET to release its hold over the IIS' set of websites.

Your input on using the virtual directory name in the URL path has worked too, thanks! Much appreciated!

Would like to know if there is any URL where the internals of IIS - such as the meanings of the individual items in the "Website properties", that of the individual entries that come up when the IIS service name in the inverted tree, etc. - are described in detail? This perhaps is the right time to come to grips with the subject.

Thank you once again...

 
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