Using ASP

**Lord Raiden** · 10-15-2004, 09:13 PM

Sorry folks, I'm totally green here. I installed IIS on my Win2000 machine and started up the web server.

Under the wwwroot folder I placed an HTML page called "test.html" and then opened IE and typed in "//localhost/test.html" which promptly opened my test page. However, when I place a simple ASP file called "test.asp" in the same location and type in "//localhost/test.asp" in the IE address bar it returns a page not found error.

My impression is that IIS is not running the ASP script and returning the plain HTML page to the browser when requested. What am I missing or doing wrong??? here is the ASP file:

Quote:

<html>
<body>

<%
response.write("Hello World!")
%>

</body>
</html

Thanks for your help!

**vivekar** · 05:21 AM

There is nothing wrong in the code.

IIS says that it could not find the file. Are you sure that the file is in the same directory?
Is it at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot ?
do you see http://localhost/localstart.asp page when you hit http://localhost/
If not, the IIS is not configured properly.

You can try repairing IIS from the administrative settings.
Otherwise, I suggest you to reinstall the IIS (only) using the Add/Remove programs.
This *may* solve the problem.

Caution: Backup all your files before you do any changes to your system.

Let us know what happens next.

**Lord Raiden** · 10-18-2004, 03:16 PM

http://localhost/localstart.asp and http://localhost/ also are not visible whereas http://localhost/postinfo.html works fine. I'm checking into making sure IIS is set correctly with my IT guy. If so I'll re-install it to see if that helps and get back to you with what I've found.

Thanks!

**Araunah** · 10-21-2004, 01:18 PM

You need to be sure that ASP is Enabled in IIS.

Click on IIS, click on your server name, click on web service extension and see if ASP is allowed, if not clicl on ASP and allow. After that, it should work. If your script is an ASP.NET script you will have to download ASP.NET first, install it and do the same thing for you to allow ASP.NET in IIS.