Getting 404 with locall IIS 7 served page

Question

My setup:

Vista 64-bit PC (my local PC) IIS 7 obviously VS 2008

I setup a new "Application" manually under the IIS default site. It's running. The application is pointing to the correct directory (where my default.aspx exists) I've setup this same exact setup on our dev server running Server 2008 and it runs fine

But for me, when I go to http://localhost/MyAppName I get a 404 not found.

I have no clue why.

So since that did not work and still got a 404, then I tried instead changing from using the VS web server to using IIS in my web project properties in the "Web" tab in VS 2008. Then clicked the "Create Virtual Directory" button and it created a new Application in IIS for me. Same thing though. If I go to that address, I get a 404 on my local machine where it's running.

Answer 1

Do you have the home directory to look for "default.aspx" as the default page?

Answer 2

A couple things to check:

First, look at your access logs to see exactly what request is getting logged.

Check your IIS config - you may have a default.aspx page, but is IIS configured to use that as one of the default pages? If you go to http://localhost/AppName/default.aspx do you still get a 404?

If you put a static test.html file in the same directory, can you access it?

These should all help determine the cause.

Answer 3

Ok, I had not installed the IIS 6 functionality of IIS in Vista. I did not know it still used legacy features in IIS 7 to run sites locally....I guess. Not sure why but I guess it uses these IIS6 features. Will have to research why it's dependent on this stuff.