I installed .NET 3.5 and then installed IIS, on a Win XP Pro machine. IIS won't load any pages - not iisstart.asp, not a test .aspx page, not a test .htm file.
Here's the error message I get when I browse to localhost:
Server Application Error
The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance.
The event log showed:
Source: W3SVC
Type: Warning
Event ID: 36
The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC'. The error was 'The specified metadata was not found.'
However, I just uninstalled then reinstalled IIS 5.1. It's still broken but now it gives a slightly different error:
Source: W3SVC
Type: Warning
Event ID: 36
The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT'. The error was 'Class not registered.'
The event right before this one says: "The World Wide Web Publishing service entered the running state", in case that's significant.
Here's the error message I get when I browse to localhost:
Server Application Error
The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance.
The event log showed:
Source: W3SVC
Type: Warning
Event ID: 36
The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC'. The error was 'The specified metadata was not found.'
However, I just uninstalled then reinstalled IIS 5.1. It's still broken but now it gives a slightly different error:
Source: W3SVC
Type: Warning
Event ID: 36
The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT'. The error was 'Class not registered.'
The event right before this one says: "The World Wide Web Publishing service entered the running state", in case that's significant.