Silly Question

I am newbie to IIS. I have installed 5.1 on xp pro, and have confirmed that the server is working by serving up a self made Default.htm using http://localhost.

I renamed this file and created a Default.asp and tried to see if I could serve up an ASP file. This time I received an error:

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.

So here are my questions:

1) Where is the event log located?
2) If ASP handling is not setup by default during instalation how do I enable it?
3) Is this a more serious problem that I lack the knowledge to appreciate yet?

thanks in advance

have you tried typing in
http://localhost/default.asp??

What default documents are setup in IIS for this particular site?
steps to find out

yup I tried that.

the default documents are:

Default.htm
Default.asp
index.htm
iistart.asp

The event log should be in
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Logfiles

Or to find it in IIS

thanks...

Here are my last 2 entries for the log:

22:26:31 127.0.0.1 GET /Default.asp 500
23:20:42 127.0.0.1 GET /default.asp 500

any ideas???

Try the event viewer found in Control Panel - Administrative Tools

Doug, Is the event viewer an alternative to the logs?

Not really. The standard IIS web logs are as Memnoch posted, from which you derive your web stats, etc.

The Windows event logs are part of the OS and record system and application error and alert events. Program failures are often logged in the event logs.

The only times I've had problems setting up IIS on XP was when I tried to install IIS as a non-administrator user. ASP should work "out of the box".

Permissions are often at the heart of IIS problems. If you ran urlscan or the IIS lockdown tool you may have disabled asp.

OK I will try another transaction to see what happens.

I installed IIS as the administrator. Are there other permissions I am supposed to fiddle with?

I have not run anything else, I am just trying to prove IIS is working as it should!

When I installed IIS on my XP Pro box it was just do the installation then browse to asp pages.

If you're running any firewall or antivirus script blocking software maybe they are interfering with asp. After a recent MS update, I had to stop the WWW service, reboot, then restart the service to let it through zonealarm.