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• 08-05-2008, 1:43 AM

  nb123 Joined on 07-04-2006, 11:31 AM Posts 6 nb123

  help setting up webapplication on IIS5.1 Reply Contact Can someone point me to how to set up IIS to run wep application project on IIS5.1. This is what i have tried: -have a web app project .net 2.0 which is created at the default location c:\documents and settings\name\VS2005\projects\myWebApp1\myWebProj1  ..i have changed the project properties in VS to run on IIS server and gave the path to my virtual directory as http://localhost/myVirtualDir -i have IIS5.1 running on my local system,thats where i have created myVirtualDir. Local path for myVirtualDir is set up to c:\documents and settings\name\VS2005\projects\myWebApp1\myWebProj1 and application name is defaulted to same name as myVirtualDir -under defaultwebsite ->properties->Home directory,i have local path set up toC:\Inetpub\wwwroot\myWebApp1\myWebProj1  when i try to browse the site as localhost/myVirturalDir>> i get HTTP 401.3 - Access denied by ACL on resource and if i try localhost/myVirturalDirmy/WebApp1/myWebProj1 >> i get file not found error and it i add default.aspx .i get server application is unavailable error.What am i missing here...PLEASE HELP ME...thanks a million

• 08-05-2008, 9:11 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 10:27 AM Lawrenceville, NJ Posts 3,538 tomkmvp

  Re: help setting up webapplication on IIS5.1 Reply Contact nb123: -under defaultwebsite ->properties->Home directory,i have local path set up toC:\Inetpub\wwwroot\myWebApp1\myWebProj1 Don't do that ... no need to change the root of the site, it should stay as C:\inetpub\wwwroot - this is what gets accessed as http://localhost/. nb123: when i try to browse the site as localhost/myVirturalDir>> i get HTTP 401.3 - Access denied by ACL on resource Make sure that IUSR_yourcomputername has NTFS Read permissions on c:\documents and settings\name\VS2005\projects\myWebApp1. Also make sure that the local ASPNET account has at least NTFS read permissions on the myWebApp1 folder and below.  nb123: and if i try localhost/myVirturalDirmy/WebApp1/myWebProj1 >> i get file not found error and it i add default.aspx .i get server application is unavailable error.What am i missing here...PLEASE HELP ME...thanks a million that's the wrong URL - from what you've described so far it should only be http://localhost/myVirtualDir.  Should anything in myWebApp1 be accessible through http?  If so, make that the virtual directory - then you would be able to go to http://localhost/myVirtualDir/ as well as http://localhost/myVirtualDir/myWebProj1/. Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/

• 08-05-2008, 2:10 PM

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  nb123 Joined on 07-04-2006, 11:31 AM Posts 6 nb123	Re: help setting up webapplication on IIS5.1 Reply Contact Thanks a ton tom..your guidence helped me get thru the first few step,i can see the files listed under the directory Now when i try to browse the default.aspx which is under that given directory i am getting Failed to  access  IIS metabase

• 08-05-2008, 6:04 PM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 10:27 AM Lawrenceville, NJ Posts 3,538 tomkmvp	Re: help setting up webapplication on IIS5.1 Reply Contact Also make sure that the local ASPNET account has at least NTFS read permissions on the myWebApp1 folder and below.  Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/

• 08-06-2008, 8:09 AM

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  nb123 Joined on 07-04-2006, 11:31 AM Posts 6 nb123	Re: help setting up webapplication on IIS5.1 Reply Contact got it working...yup i had the permissions set up correctly but i was still getting the failed to connect to IIS metabase error..i got it working with the help of following link http://geekswithblogs.net/narent/archive/2007/03/23/109573.aspx  thank you so much for helping me out on this one...i am IIS novice.