page cannot be found error after redirect to .shtml with IIS 6

Greetings life savers,

I am currently migrating some applications from an NT/IIS ? server to a Windows 2000 / IIS 6 server. Some apps are using .Net, some are not.

One application in particular is composed of .asp and .shtml files. For instance, if a login fails, the user is directed towards a standard .shtml file that contains information.

IIS 6 seems to be unable to display these .shtml files for some reason. When typing n the explicit URL of an .shtml file, I receive a "The page cannot be found" error. The file is exactly where it should be.

The Web application files reside inside of a virtual directory.

From what I can tell in the IIS Manager, .shtml files should be able to run. I see that "all verbs" is selected for .shtml files in Properties->Virtual Directory->Application Configuration.

What the heck!? I expected problems with truly dynamic pages, not .shtml files.

Have a great day!

Hi,

I think you are having a similar problem that I had with PHP files. Open up the IIS 6 management console, expand the server name and click Web Service Extensions. Right-click Server Side Includes and select Allow. If this doesn't work, try allowing all ISAPI and CGI extensions.

If this is the problem, this happens because IIS 6 only runs extensions which have explicitly been allowed. By default, everything like shtml files is disabled for better security.

HTH,

Edwin

Edwin, you are the man!
And the fact that PHP is even mentioned in the solution makes it that much sweeter.

I thought I had covered this area when looking in the application configuration. This knowledge also saves me from running into WebDav trouble later.

Much thanks,
John

it's sort of annoying that web service extensions bit - I've wasted hours before when my sites have not been working because of it!

This worked for me too... I couldn't get .php files to work.

Thanks.

One more problem I have with IIS 6 is that ASP processes script really slowly. Do you know what that could be and how to fix it?

Travis Cable

What kind of pages? Is a database involved? asp.net?