Hosting ASP.NET 1.1 Application in IIS7 with Windows Server 2008 Environment

Migrating your ASP.NET 1.1 application from IIS 5.1 to IIS 7 is easy task , until you had installed all the patches and Service pack , while installing the IIS 7 install the IIS 6 Comparable tools also

Check List:

Mostly in Windows Server 2008 there won’t be ASP.NET 1.1 , so we need to install the .Net Framework 1.1 , then the service pack for .Net framework 1.1 then the security updates for asp.net 1.1 , After you installed all the patches you can find the ASP.NET 1.1 in the application pool (fig -1)

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Yes now your IIS 7 is ready for ASP.NET Application , then Create a Virtual Directory and assign the Specific folder of the application , then assign the asp.net 1.1 application pool to the application

Click on the application in the right hand side you can find the action window [fig-2]Click on the Basic Settings edit window will open [fig-3 ] in that select the ASP.NET 1.1 application Pool and press Ok

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Tips & Tricks:

Tips 1 : Custom Error Click on the projects in the property area under IIS  Error Pages  open this right Click on the window and open the Edit window [fig-4] here you can set the customer error based on your needs [fig-5]

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Tips 2: SMTP –Just fill the Necessary details

Tips 3: Authentication - Purpose is same as the previous version this time must user friendly then before

Common Errors:

IIS Worker process stopped. – If you had not installed Service pack for 1.1 this error will come

An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.

Ambiguous match found – if you had not assigned the correct application pool

Folks all the above said procedures, tips and error messages are what I had faced in my production environment. Kindly bear for my poor English

Error Message :

unable to start debugging on the web server. the type initializer for system.net.digestclient threw an exception

Cause : if your environment is VS2005 with .Net Framework 2.0 ,and if u have an assembly with security.dll this error will come ,

Solution : rename the assembly name

Error Message

Error 811 F:\MySampleProject\RptCrystalViewer.aspx: ASP.NET runtime error: '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/MySampleProject/is not a valid IIS application. F:\MySampleProject\RptCrystalViewer.aspx 1 1 Finance

Cause : Due to Invalid path

Solution :

Right Click on the Project go to the web Tab and Change the path

Error Message

IIS Worker process stopped , When your Deploy your ASP.Net 1.1 Version of application in II7 , we need to set the application pool for Framework 1.1 , if you install Framework 1.1 it will automatically create , once the application pool is created and you had assigned to the the asp.net 1.1 application grt, it should work fine.. rit , but it wont , what it will do means it will stop the work process ,,.. you might ask why the hell it stops my work process ? good Question

y beacause ..... u r using microsoft products u have not installed the service pack that the reason ,,

So u need to the install the service pack for .net framework 1.1 , with asp.net 1.1 security update for framework 1.1 once your had installed it will work fine ..