Hello There, 
Well I have the exact same error. I have previously done all the steps 
mentioned to help you. But still no difference. I was about to format c:  
and start over. But figured I would try and find some help one last time 
and seen that you had the exact same problem. 
I had XP Home edition installed, VS.NET and .NET Framework. When I 
upgraded to XP Professional, I installed IIS 5.1, but found that .NET 
Framework needed installation after IIS. So I uninstalled everything twice 
and installed in correct order----> IIS, all Windows components from 
VS.NET setup, then .NET Framework, then VS.NET. 
Have you corrected your problem, and if so, PLEASE oh PLEASE tell me how. 





> Thnaks for the responses. I'm still struggling!

> >Check the priv to see if the user aspnet has access - check for a user
>> aspnet too 

> I have a aspnet_wp account. I've set permissions to read & execute for 
e> veryone on all relevant directories. I don't think it's a permission 
p> roblem.

> >Go to Settings - Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services
>> Check to see if the ASP.NET Server is running. If it isn't, just right
>> click on it a select Start.

> The only ASP related service I could find there was the "ASP.NET State 
S> ervice". Is this what you mean? I started it anyway, but it made no 
d> ifference..

> >Go to Internet Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Advanced and
>> uncheck "Show friendly Error Messages". This way you see a specific
>> error message, not just the generic "500 - Internal Server Error"
>> message. Then let us know what the detailed error message is, and we'll
>> help you out.

> I did this and now the page says "The server has encountered an error 
w> hile loading an application during the processing of your request. 
P> lease refer to the event log for more detail information".

> So, I started the event viewer to look at the event log (no idea if this 
w> as the right thing to do!) and I found this in the system event log 
(the 
t> ime corresponded with the time I loaded the aspx page):

> "The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC'.  The error was 'The 
s> pecified metadata was not found.'. "

> Does any of this make any sense to anyone? Or is it totally irrelevant? 
I> 'm still tearing my hair out... Thanx in advance again....

I had this problem and did the same thing you did.  I took out everything
and put it back in the right order.  It still didn't work until I installed
.NET Framework Service Pack 2, affectionately known as SP2.

Of course SP2 doesn't install without errors.  That's just a private joke
between you and Microsoft. It will be looking for a certain file which it
will not find because internally it has the wrong path.  I forget the name
of the file, but if you type it into Google after you see the error message
you can get info on extracting it from the self extracting Zip file and
placing it into the requested directory which you will have to create.
After that ASP.NET should work fine.

Regards
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike McClellan" <mmcclellan31@a...>
To: "aspx_beginners" <aspx_beginners@p...>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: [aspx_beginners] RE: Installing IIS/ASP.NET - newbie needs help
BADLY!


> Hello There,
> Well I have the exact same error. I have previously done all the steps
> mentioned to help you. But still no difference. I was about to format c:
> and start over. But figured I would try and find some help one last time
> and seen that you had the exact same problem.
> I had XP Home edition installed, VS.NET and .NET Framework. When I
> upgraded to XP Professional, I installed IIS 5.1, but found that .NET
> Framework needed installation after IIS. So I uninstalled everything twice
> and installed in correct order----> IIS, all Windows components from
> VS.NET setup, then .NET Framework, then VS.NET.
> Have you corrected your problem, and if so, PLEASE oh PLEASE tell me how.
>
>
>
>
>
> > Thnaks for the responses. I'm still struggling!
>
> > >Check the priv to see if the user aspnet has access - check for a user
> >> aspnet too
>
> > I have a aspnet_wp account. I've set permissions to read & execute for
> e> veryone on all relevant directories. I don't think it's a permission
> p> roblem.
>
> > >Go to Settings - Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services
> >> Check to see if the ASP.NET Server is running. If it isn't, just right
> >> click on it a select Start.
>
> > The only ASP related service I could find there was the "ASP.NET State
> S> ervice". Is this what you mean? I started it anyway, but it made no
> d> ifference..
>
> > >Go to Internet Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Advanced and
> >> uncheck "Show friendly Error Messages". This way you see a specific
> >> error message, not just the generic "500 - Internal Server Error"
> >> message. Then let us know what the detailed error message is, and we'll
> >> help you out.
>
> > I did this and now the page says "The server has encountered an error
> w> hile loading an application during the processing of your request.
> P> lease refer to the event log for more detail information".
>
> > So, I started the event viewer to look at the event log (no idea if this
> w> as the right thing to do!) and I found this in the system event log
> (the
> t> ime corresponded with the time I loaded the aspx page):
>
> > "The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC'.  The error was 'The
> s> pecified metadata was not found.'. "
>
> > Does any of this make any sense to anyone? Or is it totally irrelevant?
> I> 'm still tearing my hair out... Thanx in advance again....
>
>

Just a thought, check the subdirectories for your Web to be sure that the 
security information on the main file is being proliforated to the sub 
files.

Are you able to conect to the site using VB.NET?  Not to the local 
directory but using the URL

Do you have the FrontPage extentions configured, actually I don't know 
that thats relavent but what the. . .