Literally it is a blank page with just "Bad Request" in the upper left corner, nothing else. I'm trying to run an ASP.Net website locally for development purposes. The following is what I've done to get to this sorry state: IIS is installed and activated (obviously) and I've turned on all the windows features under
Internet Information Services -> World Wide Web Services -> Application Development Features
as well as under
Internet Information Services -> World Wide Web Services -> Common Http Features
I've also edited the hosts file to contain: 127.0.0.1 dev.myproject.com 127.0.0.2 dev.myproject.com
Frankly I have no idea why 127.0.0.2 is mapped, when my boss showed me the process he added it so I've done the same here. I'm pretty sure it'll work with just 127.0.0.1 so as a side note if anyone wants to enlighten me as to why you'd want to map 127.0.0.2 as well I'd be delighted.
Past this, because this is iis7 but we use ii6 url rewriting I've followed this article's steps: http://www.improve.dk/blog/2006/12/11/making-url-rewriting-on-iis7-work-like-iis6
Long story short (the article) under handler mappings the static file handler is set to match *.* and is only invoked on files and I've got a Wildcard handler that is set to match * and has no mapping request restrictions with the executable %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll. Also, the Wildcard handler is the last handler to be invoked. The website is running under the Classic .NET App Pool and since this machine is a 64 bit machine but its a 32-bit project I've set Enable 32-Bit Applications to true for the Classic .Net App Pool.
Now up until the final step of this process (enabling the 32-bit applications) I was getting very pretty and normal iis7 errors. The ones where you get detailed error info and it tells you the likely causes and possible fixes. So iis itself is most definitely functional. Beyond this, if I request a specific page, like dev.myproject.com/default.aspx it will be properly served. But if I try dev.myproject.com/ then I get that "Bad Request" page. So I'm thinking its got to be a url rewriting issue.
Adding to the intrigue, I've gone through this process and actually have this project working on my own computer (trying to set it up on a coworkers currently) and I cannot find any differences between my setup and my coworker's. Obviously there is a difference, I just for the life of me cannot find/figure it out.
So anyway, I throw myself upon your collective mercy and give thanks in advance.