Hosting local web page with IIS 5.1

A couple of questions.

I have IIS 5.1 installed on my XP Pro system and I am trying to host a
site on my local intranet. In IIS, I used the Right-click>New>Virtual
Directory... tool to add the directory for my aspx site. In IE, I can
navigate to http:/localhost/ without issue, but when I go directly to
http:/localhost/TestPage/Default.aspx, or when I go to http:/localhost/
TestPage/ and click on the Default.aspx link, IE displays an error
message page giving the following information.
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Server Application Unavailable
The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is
currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web
browser to retry your request.

Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this
specific request failure can be found in the application event log of
the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused
this error to occur.
----------

In the application event log, the following error information is given
from the ASP.NET 2.0.5blahblah source.

----------
Failed to execute request because the App-Domain could not be created.
Error: 0x80070005 Access is denied.
-----------

Does anyone have any experience with this? This is my first time
trying to host a web page, so I am assuming it is something fairly
simple.


My other question pertains to viewing my default web page from another
computer on my network. When I am on another computer and use IE to
navigate to http:/IP_ADDRESS_GOES_HERE (the address being that of my
xp machine), I get a password authentication dialog asking for the
network username and password. Is this a property of the default
gateway (my xp machine is not the default gateway), the router, or my
xp machine? How do I find out the network username and password?

That's it for now. Thanks in advance.

_
Mon Jun 25 08:59:09 CDT 2007

IIS 5.1 can only use one virtual web. If you created a new one
successfully, it probably won't work.

Just modify the default web to suit your needs.

Also note, it has a connection limit of 10 conccurent connections. (That's
HTTP connections.) Browsers will often open up a handful of connections at
a time...

So, your web server will be limited to approximately one, perhaps two web
users concurrently. (Which also may be causing your error message.)

Check to make sure "anonymous browsing" is set on your virtual web, that may
solve your password problem.

IIS 5.1 is a very poor solution for hosting a site on your machine. You are
much better off using a real server (there are some low-cost hosting
providers out there that are basically free), 5.1 will give you continuous
problems. It is designed and locked down specifically for the local user to
test and develop webs. It will NOT host a web site for the public well or
at all.

"wbyeats" <vaughanbiker@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1182705071.609959.274010@d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>A couple of questions.
>
> I have IIS 5.1 installed on my XP Pro system and I am trying to host a
> site on my local intranet. In IIS, I used the Right-click>New>Virtual
> Directory... tool to add the directory for my aspx site. In IE, I can
> navigate to http:/localhost/ without issue, but when I go directly to
> http:/localhost/TestPage/Default.aspx, or when I go to http:/localhost/
> TestPage/ and click on the Default.aspx link, IE displays an error
> message page giving the following information.
> ---------
> Server Application Unavailable
> The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is
> currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web
> browser to retry your request.
>
> Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this
> specific request failure can be found in the application event log of
> the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused
> this error to occur.
> ----------
>
> In the application event log, the following error information is given
> from the ASP.NET 2.0.5blahblah source.
>
> ----------
> Failed to execute request because the App-Domain could not be created.
> Error: 0x80070005 Access is denied.
> -----------
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this? This is my first time
> trying to host a web page, so I am assuming it is something fairly
> simple.
>
>
> My other question pertains to viewing my default web page from another
> computer on my network. When I am on another computer and use IE to
> navigate to http:/IP_ADDRESS_GOES_HERE (the address being that of my
> xp machine), I get a password authentication dialog asking for the
> network username and password. Is this a property of the default
> gateway (my xp machine is not the default gateway), the router, or my
> xp machine? How do I find out the network username and password?
>
> That's it for now. Thanks in advance.
>

wbyeats
Mon Jun 25 11:08:40 CDT 2007

Thanks for the reply.

Anonymous browsing is set, but I think I will try modifying the
default virtual web page.

I'm using IIS as an alternative to the server emulator built into
Microsoft Visual Web Developer. I would like to make sure that all my
ftp transactions and database operations with asp.net are strong
between two networked computers before I inve