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Ronnie Overby
Asked: 2009-07-18 04:52:00 +0800 CST

Problem Copying IIS7 Site for Testing

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I have copied an IIS 7 site's files to a new directory, created a new site for copied files in IIS 7, set up bindings that aren't conflicting, configured the copied site to use a different database than the production site.

I can go to the login page of the copied site. The login page can authenticate me, but when it redirects me to a subdirectory, I get a 500 error from the server. I cannot figure out why I can't access these subdirectories.

Any ideas? This is driving me crazy.

windows-server-2008 iis iis-7

2 Answers

  1. It was a classic ASP problem.

    I turned failed request tracing on, and saw this:

    LineNumber 24
ErrorCode ASP 0131 
Description Disallowed Parent Path

    So I went to line 24 in the problem file:

    <!--    #include file = "../public.asp" -->

    I looked up the error code. The problem was that Parent Paths was not enabled for ASP on the site.

    Eureka!

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  2. To see the error use IE on the server, and under advanced internet options switch off Friendly HTTP Errors. This should give you a more readable ASP.Net error which you can troubleshoot further.

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