Re: Problem with IIS 6.0 serving .NET applications

From: Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP] (jmaltz_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/20/03 

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:31:23 -0400

Hi,

It's working now because you need to have "scripts and executable"
permission on the directory. Well, that's why it doesn't work with only
scripts and none.

Why errors went away is beyond me though :-) 

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"Buck" <buckforemanNOSPAM@NOSPAMearthlink.net> wrote in message
news:E6lSa.12382$Mc.882135@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Well it works now, but I'm not sure what happened.
> After seeing your post I tried setting the Execute Permissions on the
> Virtual Directory tab of the Properties dialog for the web. It was set to
> Scripts when I got there (wasn't working). I set it to "Scripts and
> Executables" and then I would get an IEExec error on the client. Switched
it
> to "None" and I'd get the content of the exe shown in the browser, changed
> it back to "Scripts" and then the app came up on the client. Changed it to
> None and the app came up on the client. Changed it to "Scripts and
> Executables" and I get the error on the client. From that point on it
> responded consistently, "Scripts" and "None" would work, "Scripts and
> Executables" doesn't.
>
> Thanks for the tips. I don't know why it started working, but it's
working.
>
> "Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP]" <jmaltz@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:uYhWlNjTDHA.1572@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Did you set Application & Scripts execute permissions?
> > Add the mime type?
> >
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> > tutorial site :-)
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> > "Buck" <buckforemanNOSPAM@NOSPAMearthlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:cScSa.11748$Mc.821961@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> > > I have a simple test that works fine on IIS 5, but I can't seem to get
> it
> > to
> > > work with IIS 6.0. I just loaded Windows 2003 Web Server and haven't
> > changed
> > > too much on the IIS 6.0 configuration.
> > >
> > > I created a simple .NET windows form application "myapp.exe" that is
> just
> > a
> > > form with a couple of control on it (buttons, whatever). It doesn't do
> > > anything, it's just a test program.
> > >
> > > On IIS 5 I just put the exe in a directory, Web Share the directory
the
> > exe
> > > is in and then can hit the exe from IE on another machine that has the
> > .NET
> > > framework and the application comes up on the remote machine. Pretty
> > simple.
> > > The url would be something like http://machinewithapp/MyApp/MyApp.exe.
> > >
> > > Doing the same on an IIS 6.0 machine doesn't work. I tried turning off
> > > execute permission on that Virutal Directory, but then the exe just
> shows
> > up
> > > in the browser. With Execute permission on, I get 404 errors.
> > >
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