Invalid Default Script Language

[Elmo Watson]

I have IIS installed on my computer (XP pro) - - I have the DotNet Framework
installed - -
ASP.net runs fine - but any time I run even the simplest Classic ASP
script/page, I get the following error:

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0201'

Invalid Default Script Language

The default script language specified for this application is invalid.

I've tried adding Language=VBscript at the top of the page
I've gone into IIS - the default language is VBScript - I've tried changing
it to Javascript and back again - no luck.
Tried re-registering the asp.dll and others, like scrrun.dll, just because
someone on the net suggested it.
IIS Reset - nothing

I've tried numerous other things - but no luck still - -

any ideas?

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Elmo Watson wrote:

I have IIS installed on my computer (XP pro) - - I have the DotNet
Framework installed - -
ASP.net runs fine - but any time I run even the simplest Classic ASP
script/page, I get the following error:

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0201'

Does this help (see the KB article)?
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2371

Bob Barrows
--
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[Elmo Watson]

Yep - done it all -
put :
<% language="VBScript"%>
even tried without the double quotes and removing it altogether
Went into IIS - made VBScript the default scripting language (which comes up
by default anyway)
Another suggestion was to change to Javascript - open it up again and change
it back to VBScript - did that too.

Installed 5.6 of the scripting engine

all to no avail. It still doesn't work - - I am down to a page with only:
<%
response.Write ("whatever")
%>

Nothing - same error.
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Elmo Watson wrote:

I have IIS installed on my computer (XP pro) - - I have the DotNet
Framework installed - -
ASP.net runs fine - but any time I run even the simplest Classic ASP
script/page, I get the following error:

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0201'

Does this help (see the KB article)?
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2371

Bob Barrows
--
Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.

[Elmo Watson]

Am I the only one who's had this problem and can't get it fixed?
"Elmo Watson" <sp**********@No.Spam.Yahho.com> wrote in message
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Yep - done it all -
put :
<% language="VBScript"%>
even tried without the double quotes and removing it altogether
Went into IIS - made VBScript the default scripting language (which comes
up
by default anyway)
Another suggestion was to change to Javascript - open it up again and
change
it back to VBScript - did that too.

Installed 5.6 of the scripting engine

all to no avail. It still doesn't work - - I am down to a page with only:
<%
response.Write ("whatever")
%>

Nothing - same error.
"Bob Barrows [MVP]" <re******@NOyahoo.SPAMcom> wrote in message
news:uz*************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Elmo Watson wrote:

I have IIS installed on my computer (XP pro) - - I have the DotNet
Framework installed - -
ASP.net runs fine - but any time I run even the simplest Classic ASP
script/page, I get the following error:

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0201'

Does this help (see the KB article)?
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2371

Bob Barrows
--
Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.

[Dave Anderson]

Elmo Watson wrote:

<% language="VBScript"%>

Am I the only one who's had this problem and can't get it fixed?

It would help if the @ were included to indicate this is a directive:

<%@ Language=VBScript %>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...2e08ff4437.asp

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[jlestein]

I have also been having this problem and have not found a solution as of yet.

this simple code does not work.

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<% Response.Write "test" %>

It does not matter if I put quotes around VBScript or not it still does not work.

I have changed the default language in IIS fron VBScript to JScript and back again and still nothing.

I have removed the directory and added it back in again. re-registered all the DLL's, re-install scripting 5.6, etc, etc. Nothing is working.

Any other ideas to resolve this problem?

Thanks,
Joshua

[iacopo.cricelli]

I've the same problem
Anyone can solve it?

Thanks
Iacopo Cricelli

[jlestein]

I ended up finding a few solutions but none of them worked any more after I restarted my computer so they were kind of useless solutions.

In the end I gave up a formatted my machine and started over and now it all works great!

Sorry I never found a better solution...

Joshua

[Dave Anderson]

ia*************@gmail.com wrote:

I've the same problem
Anyone can solve it?

http://tinyurl.com/beq8b

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[jlestein]

Well it looks like even after formatting my drive and starting from scratch, I am having the problem again.

Everything was fine for a few days then it just stopped working again. The only change I made was installing the latest windows security updates.

[Elmo Watson]

Sorry - - I've seen this - - it doesn't work either - - I've changed it in
the page - I've changed it in IIS
I've re-registered the asp.dll

so far -- nothing tried has fixed the problems

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Elmo Watson wrote:

<% language="VBScript"%>

Am I the only one who's had this problem and can't get it fixed?

It would help if the @ were included to indicate this is a directive:

<%@ Language=VBScript %>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...2e08ff4437.asp

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[Sprogz]

Judging by the number of recent forum (not just this one) posts about this issue you're most definately not the only one; I also have this problem.

Everything was working fine several weeks ago, the ASP code hasn't changed so I know it's not at fault and anyway, even an HTML-only .asp file fails with the same error:

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0201'

Invalid Default Script Language

The default script language specified for this application is invalid.

I've reinstalled VBScript 5.6, IIS 5.1 (I'm running XP Pro).

ASP.NET and .SHTML/.HTM files are server perfectly by my webserver on localhost it only seems to be .ASP files.

I think it must be related somehow but in the past couple of weeks I've started to get Microsoft "Open File - Security Warning" pop-ups when I try and run applications. For example, I get one when running Microsoft's vbscript scripten.exe installer.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm sure it's a recent security update so I'm going to see if I can identify it. If so I'll post the result here.

[voxecho]

I'm having this same problem.

if anyone solves it, I would love a heads up; i am having no luck :\

-E

[009]

Have gotten it working momentarily by reinstalling iis once.. and reinstalling .net framework got it going for a bit another time but it is again not working..
There must be a reasonable explaination.. the security updates are definitely suspect but i'm at a loss.