Need Help IIS5 & Active Server pages

Background:
I have been tasked with designing & deploying a fairly simple web site for
my volunteer Fire dept. to our county owned web server (as a non job related
side project).

I developed the pages on one of my companies IIS6 based web servers. The
pages are aspx based pages but in reality the only real "active" content they
are using is the "include file" & some cascading style sheets. Every thing
works fine on my design environment.

Issue:
When I send the files to the county IT center to be deployed, my menus
(include files) do not display but the rest of the page is fine.

Per NetCraft - the site is running IIS5 / 2000 Server
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.franklincountyva.org

The IT center has never worked with a web server before and this one was
basically a turn key job that was handed to them to support (i.e. no one
there has any experience working with IIS) It's been so long since I used IIS
5 that I'm lost as well.

To further the issue, all my contact with the County IT staff is via phone
or e-mail so I can't get "hands on" with the box (nor do I really want too).

I'm almost 99% sure that it's something to do with either the use of the IIS
lock down tool disabling active content or a mapping issue, but I am lost as
to how to go about correcting it in IIS5.

Any assistance or information would be VERY greatly appreciated.

_
Tue May 08 09:33:58 CDT 2007

Well, considering the hosting environment you describe you have a good
chance of not having .NET installed at all (or other patches for that
matter).

Try using .asp instead. If the dynamic content is limited, that shouldn't
make any difference and the default IIS install will understand.

Have you tried a "hello world" aspx file to see if it works?

"S Crook" <S Crook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6FA53B6B-0297-4FD6-9038-78FF8A9B44F4@microsoft.com...
> Background:
> I have been tasked with designing & deploying a fairly simple web site for
> my volunteer Fire dept. to our county owned web server (as a non job
> related
> side project).
>
> I developed the pages on one of my companies IIS6 based web servers. The
> pages are aspx based pages but in reality the only real "active" content
> they
> are using is the "include file" & some cascading style sheets. Every thing
> works fine on my design environment.
>
> Issue:
> When I send the files to the county IT center to be deployed, my menus
> (include files) do not display but the rest of the page is fine.
>
> Per NetCraft - the site is running IIS5 / 2000 Server
> http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.franklincountyva.org
>
> The IT center has never worked with a web server before and this one was
> basically a turn key job that was handed to them to support (i.e. no one
> there has any experience working with IIS) It's been so long since I used
> IIS
> 5 that I'm lost as well.
>
> To further the issue, all my contact with the County IT staff is via phone
> or e-mail so I can't get "hands on" with the box (nor do I really want
> too).
>
> I'm almost 99% sure that it's something to do with either the use of the
> IIS
> lock down tool disabling active content or a mapping issue, but I am lost
> as
> to how to go about correcting it in IIS5.
>
> Any assistance or information would be VERY greatly appreciated.

SCrook
Tue May 08 10:18:02 CDT 2007

I forgot about the .net part - good catch (see what you forget when you don't
work with stuff for a while).

I have sent a quick test.asp file that has one line of text & then the
include file and we'll see if that works. Mya know today, may be 2 weeks from
now - just depends on when they have a chance to upload it.

Thanks for the help & I'll post back whenever I know something.

".._.." wrote:

> Well, considering the hosting environment you describe you have a good
> chance of not having .NET installed at all (or other patches for that
> matter).
>
> Try using .asp instead. If the dynamic content is limited, that shouldn't
> make any difference and the default IIS install will understand.
>
> Have you tried a "hello world" aspx file to see if it works?
>
> "S Crook" <S Crook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6FA53B6B-0297-4FD6-9038-78FF8A9B44F4@microsoft.com...
> > Background:
> > I have been tasked with designing & deploying a fairly simple web site for
> > my volunteer Fire dept. to our county owned web server (as a non job
> > related
> > side project).
> >
> > I developed the pages on one of my companies IIS6 based web servers. The
> > pages are aspx based pages but in reality the only real "active" content
> > they
> > are using is the "include file" & some cascading style sheets. Every thing
> > works fine on my design environment.
> >
> > Issue:
> > When I send the files to the county IT center to be deployed, my menus
> > (include files) do not display but the rest of the page is fine.
> >
> > Per NetCraft - the site is running IIS5 / 2000 Server
> > http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.franklincountyva.org
> >
> > The IT center has never worked with a web server before and this one was
> > basically a turn key job that was handed to them to support (i.e. no one
> > there has any experience working with IIS) It's been so long since I used
> > IIS
> > 5 that I'm lost as well.
> >
> > To further the issue, all my contact with the County IT staff is via phone
> > or e-mail so I can't get "hands on" with the box (nor do I really want
> > too).
> >
> > I'm almost 99% sure that it's something to do with either the use of the
> > IIS
> > lock down tool disabling active content or a mapping issue, but I am lost
> > as
> > to how to go about correcting it in IIS5.
> >
> > Any assistance or information would be VERY greatly appreciated.
>
>
>