Asp page not opening

I have configured IIS 5.1 on my win xp sp2 machine

I am getting "HTTP 500 internal server error" on opeing the default page
"http://localhost"

if i place a html in the home dir ("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot") , it opens succesfully.

if i switch off the "friendly error messages" option in IE settings , i get the following message :


Server Application Error

The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance.

Any Suggestions.

Thanks.

Hi vishalmarya, welcome to Dev Shed



Have you checked what it says in the event log? If so, could you post it in here, it will give us a better idea of what's wrong.
Try using Netscape instead of IE - its probably just a syntax error, and Netscape will display these errors. This link should explain it better.
Thanks,
Liam.

Also I think the default page is an asp page, perhaps you have some antivirus script blocking or firewall software interfering with IIS. But first look in the event log like the error message instructs you to do.

log file contents :
(i think its not much of a help)

#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2006-12-14 05:58:53
#Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status
05:58:53 127.0.0.1 GET /test.htm 304
05:59:03 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500


test.htm opens up , but asp file doesn't.

Not the IIS log files, look in the Event Viewer.

the event viewer shows

"The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC/1/Root'"
"No Such Interface Supported."

and i found a related info page.

"(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"


But i am unable to performe the steps. The page refers to IIS 5.0. I thing it is for win 2000.

Any suggestions.

Thanks