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calling an ascx page, I get an error: this type of page is not served.

When I try to run the web page that contains a custom web
user control '.ascx.' file I receive the following error:

The type of page you have requested is not served because
it has been explicitly forbidden. The extension '.ascx'
may be incorrect.

This is a project that has run before and I'm sure the '.ascx' is correct
Thanks

Bembi

If you are sure, that nobody has played around, I would just say, reboot the server (or at least IIS).

ASPX is active server pages. This must be enabled global within the IIS web services extensions extensions. Additionally, each IIS web site has a set of extensions, which are allowed or not. Open the properties of your site and on the base directory page, you can config the application settings. If you click on config there, you see a list with extensions and their corresponding DLLs.

You may have broken ASP, if you have installed / uninstalled versions of ASP, like installing ASP.NET 2.0 over a 1.1. version.

Have you done something in that direction?

RROTHER

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I found out that they had moved the project to a different server. As little as I know about it; when I went into .NET configuration, there were no configurations showing in the .NET Configuration 1.1. I believe they were on ASP.NET 2.0 on the old server and now I see where they're on 1.1 on this server. Sometime ago I had to add .NET to EXTENSIONS(?) Can you lead me to the location where I can set the IIS extensions for the ASCX pages or is that what I'm needing?

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Irwin Santos

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