Unable to create or start a webapp in VS

[peter]

When I try to create a new ASP.NET webapplication (in Visual
Studio 2003) or try to open an existing one, I get the following
error-message :

'The webserver reported the following error when attempting to
create or open the Web project located at the following URL
'http://localhost/WebApplication01 Unable to connect to the
server'.

But I know IIS is running, because I can start an existing
WebApplication by typing its URL in the browser,
for example 'http:/localhost/MyWebApp'.

Who can tell me how to solve this problem ?

[Peter Row]

Hi,

Have you added or changed any of the extension mappings for IIS defaults or
for the specific root your app is starting in?
I had a problem whereby I needed ASP.NET to process requests for JPG, GIFs,
HTM, HTML files.
In order to do this I had to add extension mappings between them and the
ASP.NET DLL.

VS when it attempts to create/open a web app writes temporary files to the
location of the web site.
If you have mapped any of these to anything else then it fails with some
unhelpful message.

Regards,
Peter
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When I try to create a new ASP.NET webapplication (in Visual
Studio 2003) or try to open an existing one, I get the following
error-message :

'The webserver reported the following error when attempting to
create or open the Web project located at the following URL
'http://localhost/WebApplication01 Unable to connect to the
server'.

But I know IIS is running, because I can start an existing
WebApplication by typing its URL in the browser,
for example 'http:/localhost/MyWebApp'.

Who can tell me how to solve this problem ?