Hi, I'm totally new to IIS and just installed it and the asp and sdk
framework in order to learn how to create dynamic websites. I'm getting
totally frusterated because I can't connect to the IIS server from IE.
http://localhost results in an http 500 error, the event log shows
09:17:34 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500
09:19:00 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500
09:19:06 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500

i'm not running a software firewall but I do have a router. the only option
on my router is to configure a virtual server but that would result in
broadcasting my pc as an actual webserver on the WAN.

I did a cmd line iisreset /status and it shows w3svc running, smtp running
and msftp running.
if I create a test html document and place it in the wwwroot folder and
access it by http://localhost/index.html it works fine

I'm totally at a loss as to how to make this work

Re: IIS help by Leon

Leon
Mon Oct 31 06:10:41 CST 2005

Freaktec wrote:
> Hi, I'm totally new to IIS and just installed it and the asp and sdk
> framework in order to learn how to create dynamic websites. I'm
> getting totally frusterated because I can't connect to the IIS server
> from IE. http://localhost results in an http 500 error, the event log
> shows 09:17:34 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500
> 09:19:00 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500
> 09:19:06 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500
>
> i'm not running a software firewall but I do have a router. the only
> option on my router is to configure a virtual server but that would
> result in broadcasting my pc as an actual webserver on the WAN.
>
> I did a cmd line iisreset /status and it shows w3svc running, smtp
> running and msftp running.
> if I create a test html document and place it in the wwwroot folder
> and access it by http://localhost/index.html it works fine
>
> I'm totally at a loss as to how to make this work

Looks like you have a problem with the default IIS application that runs for
administrators. If you don't want to use those scripts then you can just
clear out the wwwroot folder and put your own files there.

IIS by default uses Default.asp / .htm as its default document name rather
than index.html, so either rename your index page to default.htm or change
your default document order in the Documents tab in the properties of your
site in Internet Services Manager, and then you'll be able to access you
file at http://localhost/



Re: IIS help by Freaktec

Freaktec
Mon Oct 31 11:26:41 CST 2005

I tried to rearrange the document order and its now default.asp, default. htm
and still have to same error, even if i try localhost/deault.asp i still get
the error
"Server Application Error
The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the
processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail
information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance."

is there supposed to be a default.asp and default.htm file listed in the
wwwroot folder? because ther is nothing listed and i just did a clean install
of the IIS server

I dont know what else to try since it shows that all my server services are
up and running


"Leon Mayne [MVP]" wrote:

> Freaktec wrote:
> > Hi, I'm totally new to IIS and just installed it and the asp and sdk
> > framework in order to learn how to create dynamic websites. I'm
> > getting totally frusterated because I can't connect to the IIS server
> > from IE. http://localhost results in an http 500 error, the event log
> > shows 09:17:34 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500
> > 09:19:00 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500
> > 09:19:06 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500
> >
> > i'm not running a software firewall but I do have a router. the only
> > option on my router is to configure a virtual server but that would
> > result in broadcasting my pc as an actual webserver on the WAN.
> >
> > I did a cmd line iisreset /status and it shows w3svc running, smtp
> > running and msftp running.
> > if I create a test html document and place it in the wwwroot folder
> > and access it by http://localhost/index.html it works fine
> >
> > I'm totally at a loss as to how to make this work
>
> Looks like you have a problem with the default IIS application that runs for
> administrators. If you don't want to use those scripts then you can just
> clear out the wwwroot folder and put your own files there.
>
> IIS by default uses Default.asp / .htm as its default document name rather
> than index.html, so either rename your index page to default.htm or change
> your default document order in the Documents tab in the properties of your
> site in Internet Services Manager, and then you'll be able to access you
> file at http://localhost/
>
>
>

Re: IIS help by Leon

Leon
Tue Nov 01 10:16:04 CST 2005

Freaktec wrote:
> I tried to rearrange the document order and its now default.asp,
> default. htm and still have to same error, even if i try
> localhost/deault.asp i still get the error
> "Server Application Error
> The server has encountered an error while loading an application
> during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event log
> for more detail information. Please contact the server administrator
> for assistance."
>
> is there supposed to be a default.asp and default.htm file listed in
> the wwwroot folder? because ther is nothing listed and i just did a
> clean install of the IIS server
>
> I dont know what else to try since it shows that all my server
> services are up and running

Is the wwwroot folder empty? If so then you can just create a file called
default.htm and then that will be the document served when you access
http://localhost/