Hi I'm trying to run the code(thePhileVB 8163_code_v7) I downloaded from your website because I'm reading the ASP.NET Website Programming book. I'm using Windows 2003 Server and installed Microsoft IIS webserver, and Microsoft 2005 SQL server. I followed all the instructions in the "readme.htm" that can with the code and when I try to run the http://localhost/thephileVB I get a message "You are not authorized to view this page", also if I get passed that message I get some error messages in the application which says "access denided to polls.config".

Also I have a list of codes that I got from the thephileVB application log. Here are the codes:

Error Code: 400
Defenition: Bad Request
Message type: File
Location: E:\WINDOWS\help\iisHelp\common\400.htm

Error Code: 401 Sub Error Code: 1
Defenition:Unauthorized - Logon Failed
Message type: File
Location: E:\WINDOWS\help\iisHelp\common\400-1.htm

Error Code: 401 Sub Error Code: 2
Defenition:Unauthorized - Logon failed due to server config
Message type: File
Location: E:\WINDOWS\help\iisHelp\common\401-2.htm

Error Code: 401 Sub Error Code: 3
Defenition:Unauthorized - Unauthorized due to ACL on resource
Message type: File
Location: E:\WINDOWS\help\iisHelp\common\401-3.htm

Error Code: 401 Sub Error Code: 4
Defenition:Unauthorized - Auhtorization failed by filter
Message type: File
Location: E:\WINDOWS\help\iisHelp\common\401-4.htm

Error Code: 401 Sub Error Code: 5
Defenition:Authorization faield by ISAPI/CGI app
Message type: File
Location: E:\WINDOWS\help\iisHelp\common\401-5.htm

Error Code: 401 Sub Error Code: 7
Defenition:Unauthorized - Denided due to URL Authorization
Message type: File
Location: E:\WINDOWS\help\iisHelp\common\401-1.htm

If anybody needs additional information, please ask. I also have taken screenshots of a my configurations in IIS and in SQL database. I would like to post them here but Im not sure how to but if you want to see I can email those screenshots. Please Help

Thank you.

By default, this project which was written before SQL Server 2005 is set up to connect to SQL Server 2000. You might want to take a look at this post for some discussion of analyzing the connection to the db:

ThePhile project installation

It's also possible that using the later Visual Studio 2003 and ASP.NET 1.1 instead of the original VS 2002 and ASP.NET 1.0 is causing you problems.

If you do some searches within this forum on polls.config, you'll find quite a few discussions about this that will probably help too.

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I have a list of screenshots here of my configurations in IIS, and SQL server which were done according to the "readme.htm" file that came with the code. Please I would really like to make this run correctly.

Link to DL for screenshots(zip):

http://rcpt.yousendit.com/634263960/2624cce2ffaefe266746ddd3200a83c0