IIS 6.0 Won't serve .html

[jfrost10]

We've got a wonky server running IIS 6.0...it doesn't want to serve, well, anything. If we create a web share and stick an html page in it, and navigate to the page, we get a 404-Page Not Found error. I've seen many posts that talk about how IIS 6 will only serve static pages by default, but what if its not even serving those?!

Thanks for any insight,

D'Arcy

 

[dragonwell]

Check your event log for errors - they might lead you in the right direction. We had something like this and it turned out to be a problem with the security and permissions in Active Directory being messed up on that server. As it turned out every time one of those "404's" was serverd, an

http://WWW service

error was recorded in the event log.

I have also "fixed" these mysterious problems by setting the Application Protection to LOW (IIS Process) as opposed to the default of Medium (Pooled). That's on the Home Directory tab of the virtual directory properties in IIS.

Good luck!

 

[jfrost10]

For anyone that happens by this post, the issue was Sharepoint. We installed Sharepoint services on the box, and by default Sharepoint will intercept any web request and pass it through its own filters. We have an issue accessing the Sharepoint config database, adn because it couldn't hit it we'd keep getting the file-not-found error.

You need to go into the Sharepoint administrative tool and add any web sites or web services to the exclude list, which will allow them to run without the need to pass through Sharepoint.

Thanks,

D