I am a complete novice to Classic ASP and have been trying to set it up, but I keep running into an error message. I am using IIS7 on Windows 7 and have made sure that IIS is installed, etc. I have created an application that resides in C:\inetpub\wwwroot and in that directory I have a file called page.asp. However, whenever I go to my browser which is Chrome and type in localhost it shows me the blue IIS page but when I type in localhost/page.asp it gives me the following error message:
An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator
I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I have made sure that ASP and IIS are both enabled, and the code in the page is a simple
<html>
<%Response.Write("Hello world")%>
</html>
Can you please help me?
You are probably missing the Handler Mappings either for your website or the server (can be configured at multiple levels. Personally I set it at the server level and let it inherit down and enable or disable as appropriate.
This answer has all the information you need to set it up - Answer - How to enable ASP classic in IIS7.5
Should also point out that although the article is talking about IIS 7.5 the procedure is exactly the same in IIS 7.
Handler Mappings are found under the IIS section in the Internet Information Manager.
Add a script map using the following setting (taken from the linked answer):
Request Path: *.asp
Executable: C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll
Name: whatever you want. I named my Classic ASP
The executable above is 64 BIT ASP handler for your asp script. If you want your ASP script to be handled in 32 bit environment, you need to use executable from this location: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\asp.dll.
Your pages need to have a .aspx extension and you should revise your page's markup to look something like:
<html>
<body>
<p><%Response.Write("Hello World")%></p>
</body>
</html>
You may want to try using an IDE like visual studio express to help you out. Consider working through the tutorials at www.asp.net/web-forms
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Good Day,
I am running into an error that I have never run into before. I have a brand new server (Windows 2016) and I have added IIS 10 to it. I have also installed .net Core 2.1 and 2.2 runtime and SDKs onto the server. When I set up a .net Core 2.1 website, it appears to set up fine, but when I try to click on any of the features in the features view, I get a really generic error message (it happens for any .net Core website I set up). The error is an alert that states: There was an error while performing this operation. Details: [empty] Filename: \\?\D:\Apps\Test\web.config Error: [empty]
I found one place where this question was asked before, but I have IIS Rewrite 2.1, .net Core 2.1 and 2.2 and I have this site set up on another server (test env) and it works perfectly fine there! I have also made sure that IUSR and IIS_User both have read/write capabilities to the folder and every file in it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you,
Tim
In my experience, this sort of error normally means there is either something it doesn't like in the web.config (XML element it doesn't recognize) or the web.config is missing.
Normally (for me anyway) this is because I've forgotten to install URL Rewrite as that's pretty much the only "extra" thing I use - but you've got that covered already.
It might be worth checking that the App Pool for the site is configured correctly and running (should be same as your other machine, check the basic settings and the advanced).
The only other thing I can think of, is that you've installed some of the features for IIS through the Windows Features, but not all of them. I sometimes have to go back through the lists and make sure all the right things are definitely checked.
Last step would be to create a real simple little mini site, with just a default page, use the IIS GUI to change some site level settings so it creates its own web.config, make sure it runs, then have a look at the differences between the files.
Hope any of that helps
I wrote a classic ASP script (.asp) for a customer a while back. it was running on IIS v6.1 Windows 2003. The customer contacted me and said they had a catastrophic server failure and restored from backup but my script isn't running now. I logged onto their server to check it out and IIS is serving the file (I am prompted to save when I browse to the script) but not executing the script.
Several people's hands were in the server before they called me, I think this is probably a simple config setting someone tried before they figured out how to enable the "ASP" web server roll feature. But for the life of me I can't figure out how they did it. this is obviously not the default behavior. If I was trying to get this behavior I would add the .asp extension to the MIME types, but I checked and it isn't there.
What could cause IIS to serve the source of the ASP script without executing it?
Based on your question I am assuming your restored server is also windows server 2003 ... in that case you will go to the file\folder and the permissions and select execute permission to enable a server side script processor to handle that request. Been almost a decade that I have touched a 2003 server so I can’t give you the exact steps ... but, you want to enable script permissions on that folder(I think, don’t remember if it’s granular enough to drill down to a file). Also, why on earth are they still running server 2003? Is that version even supported yet?
If it’s IIS 7, you want to make sure your app pool is in Classic ASP mode first off. Then go to site and then the handler mapping section, click edit and configure it that way.
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Classic ASP on IIS7: refusing to send errors to browser on 500 Internal Server Error
I have done the following (as suggested in other posts) and still get the 500 error:
Set Send Errors To Brower = true in ASP properties in IIS
Unchecked show friendly errors in browser
Set Error Pages properties to show Detailed Error in IIS
ASP handler does seem to be mapped correctly.
The application pool has been set to Classic mode.
Any other ideas?
Finally sorted this out with the help of my sys admin!
The classic asp application was in a sub-folder. To get it working, the classic asp application's app pool had to be given access to the main folder and not just the sub-folder as it was using assets from the main folder.
Thanks heaps to all those who tried to help. Much appreciated.
From the IIS blog...
Script errors no longer shown in browser by default
As a result of our security paranoia, we turned off ASP's default behavior of sending script errors (including line number and code snippet to the browser.
...
To revert back to IIS6- behavior, simply run the following command:
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:asp -scriptErrorSentToBrowser:true
Hopefully that will at least get you to the line that's throwing the error...
I suspect your running your AppPool under "Integrated" pipeline mode, change this to "Classic" and you should be right.
see this blog Running classic ASP on IIS 7
I'm trying to deploy a winform application with IIS and ClickOnce. I can access the publish.htm page and the install even starts when I click on the provided link.
However I get this error during the installation process:
Downloading http://MyWebSiteUrl/.../Interop.SHDocVw.dll did not succceed.
The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.
Can anybody help me out on this ?
Thanks,
Bruno
I found out that I needed to check "use .deploy file extension" (under properties>Publish>Options>Deployment
[Answering this old question because it comes up as the best match in my case and the accepted answer was of no use to me].
Background, in an IIS hosted ClickOnce scenario, the downloadable components are itemized in a manifest file at the root of the deployment (that's how you can specify a single download link and deploy all the supporting components).
I was converting a tested application from a WiX installation to a lightweight version with ClickOnce and received the HTTP 500 error without anything else in the logs. Naturally, I failed to think it through and instead found myself getting dragged down the rabbit hole on the internets, with instructions for detailed logging, magic spells, etc.
Upon more sober reflection, the problem was simple and I should have been able to tell immediately from the IIS log: a 500 followed by a 0 is shorthand for 'you're an idiot, the content isn't where you said it was' and it had almost nothing to do with ClickOnce.
I had copy/paste/edited an existing download link template in MVC that was in use for simple apps and it happened to cater to only two levels of subfolders in the manifest. When I ported a more complex project structure, I ended up leaving items in a Resources sub-sub-subfolder that looked fine in the manifest but the path was being truncated in MVC so that the related item could not be found.
Moral of the story - if you get a 500 error always check first to make sure your non-functioning appliance is plugged into a working outlet...
I'm running into a problem setting up my development environment. I've been working on ColdFusion and .NET applications up until recently I haven't needed to touch IIS. Now, I have to set up a classic ASP application for some one-off work.
I added a virtual directory in IIS and pointed it at the actual codebase on my local machine. I then set the security to low (for ISAPI extensions, i.e. ASP) and allowed for script execution. For some reason though, if I hit any .asp page it says the page cannot be found. However, HTML and static files load up just fine.
EDIT: URLScan fix seems to have done it. Fired up the app in another browser (i.e. not IE6), and I'm getting better error reporting. Looks like we're missing some includes, but it is executing the scripts. Thanks!
You need to make sure that the "Active Server Pages" web service extension is set to an allowed status.
Check out: http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general/why-does-iis-hang-and/or-stop-serving-asp-pages.html
Also, you should be aware that a virtual directory may affect the include file paths in the asp pages themselves. If the original asp application does not use a virtual directory, then your local copy shouldn't either.
Take a look at your URL scan settings and see if .asp is an allowed file extension
On my XP machine the relevant file is located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\urlscan\urlscan.ini