Newbie needing help with IIS

[Julian4145]

Hey all,
Probably a simple question, but seeing as how I am new to running IIS it is giving me problems. I am running IIS 5.1 on a XP Pro machine and it seems IIS is being selective as to what asp and html files I can view in a browser. I get a "The page cannot be displayed error" for certain files. Yet others return fine. All the files are located in

http://wwwroot

and are independant of each other, meaining they are not part of a web project. I'm just trying to test some scripts out but only some of them are viewable. I don't think its a code issue because the pages are independant of each other, ie not copied and pasted, although the same files work each time. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Julian

 

[Julian4145]

Just to clarify,
I realize that last post was a little vague, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for as a potential problem. Any ideas would be helpful.

thanks,
Julian

 

[gwillr]

well...okay. to narrow down the possible causes...

are files in certain folders working and other folders not?? or are some in one folder working, and some in the same folder not??

fit may have something to do with the access permissions set on each folder if this is the case. are all of the folders containing a default.asp(html) or index.asp files??

Gary

 

[MikeT]

Hi-
Internet Explorer my be hiding error messages from you. To see them, do this in Internet Explorer:
Click Tools, then Intenet Options.
Click the Advanced Tab, locate "Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages", and uncheck it.

Then try your pages.

 

[Julian4145]

Gary,

The files are all in the

http://wwwroot

folder.

Julian

 

[gwillr]

okay...is anonomous access enabled?? in addition to miket's post, what are the error messages you are getting. these say alot about what the problem could be. can you browse all of the pages thorugh

http://localhost/pagename

??

Gary

 

[Julian4145]

Boy, don't I feel like a horse's petut. I should have known that. It was unchecking the Friendly messages in IE that showed whats wrong with the pages. I thought that was taken care of because I defaulted IIS to default to 500;100 Internal Server error- ASP error on the custom errors tab in the default web site properties. Learn something new.... Thanks Mike and Gary for the help.

Julian