ASP fails on published site but not new sites

[Warren Sirota]

Hi,

I'm running WinXP Pro on my development machine and my ISP is running who
knows what on the server... I'm using FP 2000, but probably will upgrade
soon. But, in the meantime....

If I create a new web on my devel machine in Frontpage, ASP works fine. I
can write and execute ASP pages.

If I open my web site on the ISP in FP and publish to my devel machine,
either to a new web or to an existing one (overwriting), ASP does not work
on the published web (of course, ASP *does* work on the ISP's site as
accessed by the public, or I'd be in *serious* distress).

Is there some setting I have to change to make this work? I have to admit,
that I'm a little confused by IIS 5.1 admin - but the icons on the new webs
with working ASP are just folder icons in the admin panel, and the icons for
the non-working webs that were published from the ISP are - well, who knows
what? They look a little like a greenish worm with a white beret starting to
crawl out of an open cardboard box. I know it must be significant, but I
can't imagine what that's supposed to signify.

Thanks for your advice,
Warren

 

[Kevin Spencer]

For ASP to run on an IIS web site, the web site must have an Application
configured. Do they? To find out, open the IIS Admin snap-in and right-click
the folder that represents the web, selecting "Properties" from the context
menu. After that, go to the "Home Directory" tab and look at the Application
section. If no Application is configured, click the "Create" button.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
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