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• 12-30-2008, 4:11 PM

  rlng Joined on 12-30-2008, 4:01 PM Posts 5

  Expression Web 2 using IIS and ASP.NET Reply Contact I am a newbie to Expression Web 2 (EW2). I launched EW2 on my home computer that has Windows Vista - Home Premium OS. I created my first dynamic web site usning ASP.NET. My site settings are set to use Microsoft Expression Development Server for ASP.NET (3.5 version) web pages (there are no other ASP.NET options available to choose from). I created a master page and a very simple aspx page. All went well until I tried to preview my aspx page in EW2. I selected: File-Preview In Brower-Windows Internet Explorer 7. While attempting to load the page, my screen recognized and diplayed, "Microsoft Expression Development Server" and it also displayed "http://localhost:23249/myfirstwebsite". But to my surprise, IE7 next displayed a page that stated, "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". I've pulled my hair out trying to resolve this problem.   I took my EW2 website files to my office computer that uses Windows XP OS. Everthing worked fine with Microsoft Expression Development Server . The aspx page displayed without a hitch. There is something about my home computer's Windows Vista environment and displaying aspx pages that I can't figure out. I'm at a total loss.

• 12-30-2008, 4:39 PM

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  Paul Lynch Joined on 05-24-2006, 9:41 AM UK Posts 1,248	Re: Expression Web 2 using IIS and ASP.NET Reply Contact Hi, Asp.net isn't installed by default with IIS7, you need to enable that feature as described here : http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/136/install-typical-iis-workloads  Regards,  Paul Lynch | www.iisadmin.co.uk

• 12-30-2008, 5:06 PM

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  rlng Joined on 12-30-2008, 4:01 PM Posts 5	Re: Expression Web 2 using IIS and ASP.NET Reply Contact I don't understand. My IIS7 features, which are displayed from the Control Panel, show ASP.NET as an available option and I have it checked. Why should I have to install it?

• 12-31-2008, 6:44 AM

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  Paul Lynch Joined on 05-24-2006, 9:41 AM UK Posts 1,248

  Re: Expression Web 2 using IIS and ASP.NET Reply Contact Hi, You don't have to install it if its already on there. Another thing to check is your firewall settings, its possible that your firewall (if its enabled) is only configured to allow HTTP traffic on ports 80 and 443 but your web site appears to be listening on port 23249 so you may need to either add an exception for that port or temporarily disable your firewall to test your site. Regards,  Paul Lynch | www.iisadmin.co.uk

• 12-31-2008, 10:54 AM

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  rlng Joined on 12-30-2008, 4:01 PM Posts 5	Re: Expression Web 2 using IIS and ASP.NET Reply Contact Thanks for your reply. I disabled my ESET antivirus and firewall application. But this did not remedy the problem. Maybe there is a setting in th Internet Options of IE7 that needs to be turned on or off?

• 01-01-2009, 2:34 PM

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  Paul Lynch Joined on 05-24-2006, 9:41 AM UK Posts 1,248	Re: Expression Web 2 using IIS and ASP.NET Reply Contact Hi, Have you tried creating a web site which listens on port 80 on your machine and browsing a simple 'Hello World' .aspx page from that web site ? Regards,  Paul Lynch | www.iisadmin.co.uk

• 01-01-2009, 3:41 PM

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  rlng Joined on 12-30-2008, 4:01 PM Posts 5	Re: Expression Web 2 using IIS and ASP.NET Reply Contact How do I point to port 80?

• 01-02-2009, 5:03 AM

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  Paul Lynch Joined on 05-24-2006, 9:41 AM UK Posts 1,248

  Re: Expression Web 2 using IIS and ASP.NET Reply Contact Hi, You create the port binding when you create the site. If you are not using a host header you will need to stop the Default Web Site if it is listening on port 80. Read this : http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/07/12/Creating-IIS7-sites_2C00_-applications_2C00_-and-virtual-directories.aspx  Regards,  Paul Lynch | www.iisadmin.co.uk

• 01-02-2009, 6:01 PM

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  rlng Joined on 12-30-2008, 4:01 PM Posts 5	Re: Expression Web 2 using IIS and ASP.NET Reply Contact Thanks, but this is way above my head. Expression Web 2 shouldn't be this complicated to diplay an aspx page on my Vista IE7 browser, especially considering that my aspx page displays fine on a Windows XP machine. I'll contact Microsoft support for the solution.