IIS6 and .Net Framework.

I just installed Windows server 2003 and applied all
updates using Windows update. I currently also have a
Win2k server which currently host my website and aspx
application. I am trying to move all that to my new 2003
server. I started IIS. I copied all my files from old
server to knew on. I setup new website in IIS. I can
browse all html pages fine.. but I can not load any aspx
pages. I have checked permissions and don't think it is
that. I feel like it has something to do with the .net
framework be configured right.. but not sure and don't
know how to configure. I noticed that framework 1.1 has
a configuration utility that I have not seen. Also, when
I go into the properties of the website in IIS and click
on the configuration button then look at Application
extension, there is no .net extension listed like in my
older server. Anyone have any ideas?

Is your ASP.NET web application built for .NET 1.0 or 1.1 (while typically
forward-compatible, using obsoleted methods will break it). If you need to
run this on .NET 1.0, installed 1.0 and SP2, then create a new application
pool on which the application runs (an worker process can only run one
version of ASP.NET) and set your ASP.NET web application to use that
AppPool.

If it's not this, make sure that the user under which the AppPool runs has
the correct privileges (putting that user in IIS_WPG is typically enough)
and has access to Temporary ASP.NET files in the Framework installation
directory. You might also want to grant them read/write security on
\Windows\Temp, too, because some assemblies in the base class library use
that to emit persistent assemblies it seems (we had that problem at least).

In IIS6, the <machinePolicy> section of the machine.config file doesn't have
any effect (at least from what I've read and from experience). The AppPool
(controls the worker process) takes care of all this now, so if you modified
your machine.config thinking that this would work it won't. Everything must
be configured from the AppPool.

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Heath Stewart, Microsoft MVP
Director of Technology
Proplanner
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