Windows 7 / IIS 7 / Classic ASP not working

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I have some old classic asp scripts. They used to work on my 2003/IIS 6 server. But on my Vista/IIS 7 and now Windows 7 Ultimate/IIS 7 server the asp pages don't work.

I did what they said here: Deploying a Classic ASP Server (IIS 7) (Microsoft TechNet).

I enabled those 3 features in IIS 7 but that just went from getting 404 to 500 error.

Best Answer

A question: does a simple asp script run or did you try existing pages with includes?

<% Response.Write "Hello, world!" %>

Since you're getting a 500 server error now, could be a sign that something is wrong with your script. Maybe you forgot to enable the Windows Feature (WWW / Application Development Features) "Server-Side Includes"?


It could be a security issue of the application pool account as well. I found this article: loadUserProfile and IIS7 - understanding temporary directory failures. It could be a similar problem.