Classic ASP not working on Windows Vista IIS7

Question

I have just moved from Windows XP Pro to Windows Vista Ultimate. I installed IIS and all sub categories (including Classic ASP).

I have a few websites in my wwwroot folder that are Classic ASP sites. When I try to view them through localhost, I keep getting an error message:

An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator.

If you are the system administrator please click here to find out more about this error.

This error links off to this page, which is about running Classic ASP websites on IIS7.

I have followed the post and enabled ASP in IIS. However, I cannot get the sites to work.

Can anyone please shed some light as to why this is happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

It works for me once I added ASP under Programs and Features without any issues.. One thing I noticed is a checkbox to "enable server side includes" so if your ASP app has that, you may want to check that off.

You also may want to check security settings but I didn't have any issues with that either.

I wrote a very complex ASP page with the following source code for a test

<%= Response.Write("Hi Stack Overflow") %>