In setting up IIS for use with Dreamweaver MX 2004 to have my web site and server be on my PC.

I am having difficulty with the IIS web server in Windows 2000 (SP3).
Text I'm using: Beginning Dreamweaver MX, Wrox, 1861008201

Install of IIS from W2K CD seemed to work OK.

Test using http://localhost/localstart.asp in browser returns "Page cannot be found" 404 error. The "Welcome to IIS" page as shown in the text, page 27, seems to be the localstart.asp page that isn't found.

World Wide Web Publishing line in [Administrative Tools | Services] shows status of "Started" indicating the server is running.

When I go to C:\Inetpub, I see three subdirectories [ftproot, mailroot and nntpfile].
Isn't there supposed to be a folder WWWROOT there as my default web page folder? If so, it is not there.
I can't find localstart.asp anywhere under C:\Inetpub, so it makes sense that I get the "not found" message.

What am I doing wrong?
What do I do next?

Hi Richard,

It *is* weird that there is no wwwroot folder. Has IIS been installed before?

It's easy to fix, though. Here's what I would do:

1. Create the wwwroot folder yourself in C:\Inetpub

2. Open the IIS manager from the Control Panel or Administrative tools

3. Expand your server until you see Default Web Site

4. Right-click Default Web Site and choose Properties

5. On the Home Directory tab, make sure that Local Path points to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot

6. Create a new text file in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot and call it Test.asp. Add the following code:

<%
  Response.Write("Test page works at " & Now())
%>

7. Save the page and then request http://localhost/Test.asp in your browser.

If all worked well, you should see the text and the current date and time.

Cheers,

Imar

My machine says "Internet Services Manager", not IIS, but I did your procedure and the test worked fine and displayed the proper date.

This tells me that the server *HAD* to be active in order to get, format and HTML/display the date. Looks like I'm fixed.

I did try to install IIS about three times and had several things happen that weren't in my install script, so maybe I somehow messed up the creation of \wwwroot?

Yeah, strange. I don't know the reason why the wwwroot folder wouldn't be created. Oh well, as long as it works now, right?

Have fun with the book.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Hi Imar,

I had the same problem as Richard and followed you very helpful fix with the following result:
"
The page cannot be displayed
There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please try the following:

Click the Refresh button, or try again later.

Open the file:// home page, and then look for links to the information you want.
HTTP 500.100 - Internal Server Error - ASP error
Internet Information Services

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Technical Information (for support personnel)

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript compilation (0x800A03EE)
Expected ')'
/Test.asp, line 2, column 20
Response.Write(Test page works at " & Now())
-------------------^


Browser Type:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Page:
GET /Test.asp

Time:
Monday, June 07, 2004, 3:48:59 PM


More information:
Microsoft Support
"

Although it's an error page, it does contain the information, albeit with some error which I must have slipped in, (sorry, i'm an absolute rookie at all this stuff, so I can't see where!). Anyway, thanks for your help.

Riggers:)




Riggers (old bean)

You're missing an opening quote in the Response.Write statement:

Response.Write(Test page works at " & Now())

should be

Response.Write("Test page works at " & Now())

Cheers,

Imar

Thanks Imar - it now works a treat!

Riggers (old bean)