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Can't get the default IIS website to load in Win 7
I recently got a new work computer and I am running windows 7 Enterprise 64bit and IIS web server. My old computer ran Windows 7 Professional 32bit and IIS web server. I have some test web sites that I attempted to migrate over to my new computer from my old one. With a clean IIS install (no changes or anything other than the default stuff), I kept getting a 503 error when I go to "http://localhost/".
So I looked at the Application Event Viewer and it says:
"The worker process for application pool 'DefaultAppPool' encountered an error 'Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
' trying to read configuration data from file '\\?\C:\Windows\Microsoft.
So I then went and checked permissions on the wwwroot folder by default, wwwroot folder has read & execute and list folder contents for the IISUser.
What do I need to change to make this work before I can even get started importing my old websites?
So I looked at the Application Event Viewer and it says:
"The worker process for application pool 'DefaultAppPool' encountered an error 'Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
' trying to read configuration data from file '\\?\C:\Windows\Microsoft.
So I then went and checked permissions on the wwwroot folder by default, wwwroot folder has read & execute and list folder contents for the IISUser.
What do I need to change to make this work before I can even get started importing my old websites?
Paul Jackson
Check the permissions on the folder specified i.e. C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\F
ASKER
Which user should have access to that folder? I just tried the IIS user, but that didn't work either.
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Well, here is another wrinkle. I just changed the default app pool from .net version 2 to .net version 4. And at the same time I changed the .net framework for my computer to version 4 and now it works perfectly. I need version 2 because my chart program only works on version 2..
As for Jacko's question, all the websites allow anonymous access, and I log into my computer through a domain account that has administrative privileges on my specific computer
As for Jacko's question, all the websites allow anonymous access, and I log into my computer through a domain account that has administrative privileges on my specific computer
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Well, I went and gave everyone read permissions, and that seemed to fix the problem. I guess I should have read the error more closely and it would have saved me some time.