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• 07-03-2009, 4:13 PM

  neillray Joined on 07-03-2009, 8:02 PM Posts 6

  HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact I have a functioning, publicly-hosted website.  I FTPed the site to my local computer (C:/TSV) and installed installed it using "Computer Management" as an IIS website.  I entered default.aspx as the first file in the Computer Management/properties "Documents" section.  When I browse to http://localhost/tsv, I get HTTP 404 - File not found.  What am I doing wrong?

• 07-03-2009, 8:37 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 4:54 PM MI Posts 3,964	Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact Make sure the application pool, IUSR account have permissions to the folder.   Also, make sure the ASP.NET module is installed. Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 07-03-2009, 10:28 PM

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  neillray Joined on 07-03-2009, 8:02 PM Posts 6	Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact Steve, Thank you so much.  It's great to know I am not alone out here.  That said, I don't know what an application pool is, nor do I know what a IUSR account is.  I can, however, install ASP.net on my PC. Regards, Neill

• 07-04-2009, 10:21 AM

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  Rovastar Joined on 03-13-2008, 2:00 PM London, UK Posts 1,798	Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact To start with what OS have you got?   http://www.iisportal.com

• 07-04-2009, 12:57 PM

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  neillray Joined on 07-03-2009, 8:02 PM Posts 6	Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact My OS = Windows XP Professional and is current with all updates.

• 07-04-2009, 11:16 PM

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  neillray Joined on 07-03-2009, 8:02 PM Posts 6	Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact I created a 2nd website consisting of one HTML page and was able to browse to it successfully.  The problem website, TSV, contains an SQL Server 2005 database on the production site, but I have not installed SQL 2005 on my local PC.  Perhaps something in the Web.config file causes the problem.

• 07-09-2009, 3:10 AM

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  Leo Tang - MSFT Joined on 12-11-2008, 9:47 PM Posts 939

  Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact Hi, It is IIS5.1 on Windows XP professional for test environment. You can host only one default website on IIS5.1.  Have you created a virtual application under the default website with the local path C:/TSV? What's happens, if you browser the page from the computer management(Click the virtual directory->Right-Click the page on the right panel->Click Browser)? Leo Tang Microsoft Online Community Support Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

• 07-09-2009, 11:26 AM

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  neillray Joined on 07-03-2009, 8:02 PM Posts 6	Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact Thank's for your response.  I believe now my problem is not related to IIS.  My online application has a database and I have not installed the DB on my local PC, yet.  At present, the web.config file refers to a non-existant DB and I get an application-generated error message.  Thus, I think the system is trying to come up.

• 07-09-2009, 4:22 PM

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  richiebabes99 Joined on 07-08-2009, 4:49 PM Posts 21	Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact  How do you do those things? (The things said in the 2nd post of this thread)

• 07-09-2009, 5:28 PM

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  neillray Joined on 07-03-2009, 8:02 PM Posts 6

  Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact Your question is somewhat cryptic, but that never stopped me from coming up with an answer. :-)  A web.config file includes, among other things, the database logon ID and password.  I need to install the database (SQL Server 2005) on my local PC and "restore" the data from the online database to the local database.  That will establish a clone of the database on my local PC.  Then I browse to my local website and see what happens.

• 07-10-2009, 1:48 PM

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  richiebabes99 Joined on 07-08-2009, 4:49 PM Posts 21	Re: HTTP 404 - File not found Reply Contact I don't know why my question was cryptic - I referenced the 2nd post in the thread which reads: "Make sure the application pool, IUSR account have permissions to the folder.   Also, make sure the ASP.NET module is installed." I don't know why setting up a database has anything to do with it!