Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 with VB.NET 2003 (ISBN: 0-7645-5707-6)

Chapter 1, page 37, item #6:

To view the page outside of Web Matrix, the URL entered on this page "http://localhost/Ch01/punctual.aspx" (without the quotes, of course) is incorrect; an ERROR 404 will be returned. I think the correct URL should be http://localhost/BegASPNET11/Ch01/punctual.aspx

To view the page outside of Web Matrix, you are, in effect, utilizing IIS. Am I correct here? Or am I missing something?

Has anyone else encountered this?


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Jeffrey A. Hock

Hi

I think the author is talking about using Web Matrix's web server, not IIS. He's saying that once Web matrix server is running in the background, you can run an ASPX page directly by typing in its URL in IE instead of having to open it in Web Matrix and then run it.

The Error 404 error won't come if you set the Application Directory in Web Matrix to C:\BegASPNET11. You can do this while starting the web server. This is mentioned on Page 31.

Also if you have both IIS and Web Matrix running on your system, your Web Matrix will use port 8080, so your URL will be "http://localhost:8080/Ch01/punctual.aspx"

Your IIS URL is absolutely correct (I guess BegASPNET11 is configued as a web application in your IIS).

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