Hi again,
Trying to start up Visual.NET for first ASP web application coding (am still a learner....)
This is the error message I am being present when I select 'New Project' then ASP Application:
Unable to create Web project ‘WebApplication1’. The file path ‘c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebApplication1’ does not correspond to the URL ‘http://localhost/WebApplication1’. The two need to map to the same server location. HTTP Error 403: Access Forbidden
WebApplication1 is the default name given to an application - - I can change that but it doesn't affect this.
Given the hint that 'Access Forbidden' - I have tried to verify that IIS permissions are easy and that the wwwroot folder is share-able - but still no luck......
Would welcome advice from those of you that may have solved this before....thanx NTC
new Part2 "map to the same server" error message
David McComb
Standard Visual Studio tries to connect to IIS using frontpage server extensions, if frontpage extensions aren't installed then VS can't setup the virtual directory automatically. Then you get the dialogbox you've got and tries to open the web using a normal folder instead of a webfolder. Wich of course should be configured correctly but this is something you need to do manually like you did.
Regards,
Bjorn
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Ed Psyk
You say that you have an FrontPage Administration, but this doesn't mean that it is really configured on your website. When you go to the IIS Manager right click on the web or folder that you wan't to enable and choose tasks, there should be an option to check the server extensions. If you don't have this option it means that the frontpage server extensions are not enabled for the web or folder. Then you should click configure extensions in the All tasks menu.
Regards,
Bjorn
Omar Hector 123
Not sure why frontpage extensions would be relevant to a linking issue between Visual.NET and the IIS - however there is much I don't understand in all this. I did check and they seem to be installed - at least there is a folder in the Server Admin area......
FIX: After much googling about – did not find any fix - On my own hunch & experiment went back to IIS Manager and in Properties of Web Sites folder looked again at tab ‘Home Directories’ ……noticed that there were some unchecked boxes:
*Script Source Access
* Read
* Write
* Directory browsing
Without really knowing what each did – I checked them all…….and now it works…..
furtivefelon
Hi Bjorn,
I appreciate your taking the time to send in this info. As previously noted in my earlier message I did get the web site working. Clearly there is much I do not understand as my focus is on programming and not on web site management.
I did look at this web site's folder as you instruct. There is not an option to 'check server extensions' but there is an option under 'All Tasks' to 'Configure Server Extensions'. I can open that and follow the wizard however I really don't understand why - so I have not done this.
I guess there is a little bit of a dilemma in being just focused on Visual.NET programming and not fully understanding web site, IIS or FrontPage at this point. But since it works today and in the end is suitable for the programming class that I am taking then I probably will stay in this mode since it is stable and works.
Regards,
NTC