Can someone please help me. IIS can't undestand ASP

Hi,
I have problem with my IIS. I have installed and reinstalled my IIS on windows XP and still the IIS could not understand .asp file.
It can only understand .html files. I have read the number of previous post regarding this issue but still could not work. Can someone please help me??

Thanks
zoya23

In IIS if you open the properties page for the web site and look under the "Documents" tab, is there a "default.asp" page indicated? I'm not an IIS expert, but you may have to "declare" your asp page there. Not sure if that will fix your problem, but might be a place to start.

Are you getting any errors? Have you tried disabling antivirus? Need more information than just:

Have you placed this test file on the wwwroot folder?......etc

For IIS to understand the ASP code, the Web site or the web folder needs to be set as an application.

First Right click on the Web site and click Properties. Go to the Home Directory Tab and make sure that the on the Application Settings the Web site is set as an Application.

If a web site is set as an application then the Subfolders under that website can display the ASP PAges. If you want to just have the folder as an application you can also do that by going to the Folder Properties in IIS Manager.

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I have checked the default.asp page under the document tab and the file is there.

Here is the following error that I get when trying to run my localhost:

SERVER APPLICATION ERROR
The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance.

Thanks
zoya23

if you have Panda antivirus, uninstall it. I've read not long ago that it simply kills IIS and won't let it execute ASP files.

So what does the event log show?