IIS asking for username and password 1

Cineno · Jul 20, 2007

Hello I just installed IIS on my XP Professional laptop.

I typed

into the browser to see the test page (I haven't put any pages in there yet), but it's asking me for a User Name and Password.

I haven't set up one yet, and I don't use a user name or password to login to this laptop.

This is my first time setting this up, so I'm sorry if this is obvious. What should I do? Any help is appreciated!

Sheco · Jul 23, 2007

Put a simple HTML file in your c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot

...
[tt]<HTML>
<BODY>
This is it.
</BODY>
</HTML>[/tt]

Suppose you named the file "temp.htm" ....

Go to browser address

http://127.0.0.1/temp.htm

If that doesn't work then right click the temp.htm file and check the permissions... this is the windows security permissions... see if there is an account named IUSR_TheNameOfYourComputer with permissions to at least read the file.

If you still have no luck, the problem might be IIS permissions which are different from the windows permissions. To check this sse the IIS Admin tool by clicking: Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Internet Information Services ... check the IIS permissions of your root folder and the temp.htm file.

Cineno · Jul 25, 2007

Thanks for the help. I think the problem was that I was using Firefox 2. I found this tip online which solved the issue:

1) Open up Firefox and type in about:config as the url

2) In the Filter Type in ntlm

3) Double click "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" and type in localhost and hit enter

After I did that my test ASP page came through fine.

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