IIS 7: 404 Error on Single Directory Loading ASP Pages

Hey bvflorin,

Nope, no special characters in the file name. In this case, the folder name is news and the file name is news.asp. Each and every file in this directory fails to load. If I go to a different folder like support and load support.asp which is another folder in the same site, the page loads fine. Very strange.

Try to move\remove the news folder and recreate it, after recreate the news.asp with notepad and add the content from the old file there.

Hey bvflorin,

Went ahead and gave that a try. No difference. I moved the old news folder to the desktop of the machine, created a new news folder, created a new news.asp with Notepad, copy and pasted the content into the new file, saved it and tried to load the site in my browser. Same error.

Thanks!

Please check also the the IIS logs and give me the results! DOWNLOAD this tool also, install it, run it, and provide me the results!

Hey bvflorin,

Can you tell me the exact steps and command line syntax you want me to use for the Authdiag command?

Thanks!

Install it and go to Programs -> IIS Diagnostics -> AuthDiag, select task Check Authentication

Hey bvflorin,

When I run the program, all I get is the attached screenshot. No UI loads. Thanks!

Please try <font id="linkPlaceHolder">THIS </font>to trace the auth issue, i forgot that you are using IIS7, not 6... :(

forgot the LINK

Do Classic ASP pages work in other folders on the website?

Have you tried copying your news.asp file to another folder, and seeing if it works there?

Try creating a folder called test under wwwroot and copying the news.asp there and see if it works.

If it does then it might be a problem with the hanlder mapping for Classic ASP on your news directory.

Use the instructions below to verify that there is a handler mapping for ASP on your news directory.

Configuring Handler Mappings in IIS 7
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771240(WS.10).aspx

Edit a Handler Mapping
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770990(WS.10).aspx

1) Open IIS Manager and navigate to the level you want to manage. For information about opening IIS Manager, see Open IIS Manager. For information about navigating to locations in the UI, see Navigation in IIS Manager.

2) In Features View, on the server, site, or applicationHome page, double-click Handler Mappings.

3) In the grid, select a handler mapping.

4) In the Actions pane, click Edit.

5) Edit the mapping as needed and click OK.

Hey wolfman007,

Yes, all other folders in the same site display classic ASP pages without any problem. Only the news subfolder is having issues. I dropped the news.asp file into another subdirectory and it works fine.

I looked at the Handler Mappings for the subfolder in question and it has Classic ASP enabled through inheritance like the other folders that work do. I checked the NTFS security on the folder that works and the one that doesn't. The permissions are exactly the same.

It clearly has something to do with the news subfolder but I have absolutely no idea what it could be.

I've attached a screenshot of my Handler Mappings.

I am also working on gathering the logs requested by bvflorin.

Thanks!

One more thing please. Change the news folder name also the news.asp to something else.

Hey everyone,

Renaming the news folder to news1 allows the news.asp file to load. If I rename it back from news1 to news, it no longer loads in the news/news.asp location.

Is there somewhere in the IIS configuration files where something could be stored about the news folder that I need to flush out?

;) IIS7 bug... :D looollll. glad to see that we resolved! ;) and glad to see that we discover it! ;)

Hey bvflorin,

Unfortunately, this isn't resolved yet. When I rename news1 back to news the file wont load out of the news location. I need to get it back to having news\news.asp loading. I know it has something to do with the news folder but I don't know where IIS could possibly be messing this up.

I don't know nothing regarding news folder. Now i see this for the first time!

you can change the folder path in the application! ;)

Wolfmann07,

Do you have any idea on this issue? I would like to resolve the issue instead of trying to setup a way to forward people off to a new location. There must be something in a .config file or something which is leading to this. I have a bunch of people that upload web changes to the news folder and I really don't want to have to go through telling them to upload to a new folder. Habits are hard to break.

Thanks!

Hi

Try having a look inside the applicationHost.config file for your server and web.config files for your website and check if you have any rogue entries in the requestFiltering section that might be blocking access to the news folder.

Have a look at the following website.

IIS7 blocks viewing access to files in bin and other asp.net folders
http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2008/03/05/iis7-blocks-viewing-access-to-files-in-bin-and-other-asp-net-folders.aspx

<system.webServer>
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<hiddenSegments>
<remove segment="bin" />
</hiddenSegments>
</requestFiltering>
</security>
</system.webServer>

                                              

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Hey everyone,

Still haven't got anywhere with this. I checked the applicationHost.config file and there are no rouge entries that I can find.

I'm reaching the point where I might just have to rebuild the entire site in IIS and see if that resolves it. Does anyone have any additional ideas before I take that route?

Thanks!

Check to see if you have any other web sites that are using the same name within the same application pool. I have been having the same problem in IIS6 with a folder named meridian today. I had one virtual directory named meridian, which was installed by an application, and one real directory named meridian. The virtual directory existed first. Whenever I try to access anything from the real meridian directory, I get 404. If I rename it to anthing other than meridian it works fine. I just tried removing the virtual directory that the application created but that did not resolve it. The application may have setup other settings in IIS6 that may be causing a name conflict in some way... Shrug...

Thanks for the comment WWFTECH. I went ahead and created a new application pool and assigned it to the site. I cycled the site off and on. Same problem. I'm completely stumped and I have this funny feeling deleting the entire site and adding it back isn't going to change anything.

I also tried the suggestion on the following page but it did not work for me. Perhaps you will have better luck?
http://patricknielsen.net/2009/01/iis-virtual-directory-404-for-all-files.html

summary:
Rename the folder and then create a new folder with the original name, which will be empty. Then go to that folder in IIS manager and delete it. Rename the original back to its original name or recreate the original virtual directory.

Hello WWFTECH,

Gave that a go and no difference. I even deleted the entire site and added it back. No difference.

I'm guessing this is going to be an issue for Microsoft.

This is a complete and utter disaster. I went ahead and took the folder and renamed it to a different name. The intention was to forward requests from the old /news folder to a new folder. The redirect won't work either resulting in a 404.

I don't understand this at all, this is just a plain vanilla folder with a few .asp pages on it. It used to work in the /news folder and then suddenly stopped with as far as I can tell no changes being made to the box (only two people have access).

i don't understand how deleting the entire site from IIS and recreating it wouldn't resolve this weirdness. This got me thinking that it has to be some kind of a global block. I went into one of my other sites and created the same news directory with the same files. I loaded that page through the different domain name and site. Boom, same failure.

Is there somewhere global in IIS that folder blocks can be created? It appears any site on the machine that I create a news folder in, the .asp pages in that news folder won't load.

Thanks!