single machine - W2Kserver , IIS5 , VS.NET 2003
I spent some time struggling with what looked like the dreaded asp.net
debugging configuration problem but none of the solutions for this did any
good.
Outside of the ide I am able to browse to an existing web app with no
problem and I can load the web app project in the visual studio ide and run
it 'without debugging' . But I am unable to run it with debugging within the
ide - "Error while trying to run project." note that there isn't the usual
" Can't start debugging ... " stuff. I am also unable to create any new web
apps - "The web server reported the following " .. blah blah ... "500
internal server error".
This is happening with web projects on a web site other than the default -
on a whim i tried creating a webapp on the default site & surprise surprise
it works. Ok - so maybe this is a permissions problem on all sites other
than the default site (?) - but not so fast - as it turns out , having this
default site webapp included in the solution has the unexpected side effect
of now allowing me to run & create web apps in non-default sites !!! If i
remove this default site web app from the solution everything keep working
fine. If i restart studio things are still working ok. BUT if i restart
IIS I am right back to where i started - unable to create or run non-default
site web apps in the ide. If i re-add the default site web app to the
solution - everything is peachy once again. I can restart studio & IIS to
my hearts content and have everything work just fine as long as i include a
default site web app in the solution.
this is not restricted to any particular solution , and is 100% reproducable
in all current solutions and by creating a new blank solution
Any one have any ideas what is going on here ?
gerry