Had an issue on one of my virtual servers which wouldn't process any ASP.Net documents (aspx, asmx etc), but would just return a 404. However, it would happily return other resources such as htm, txt, css. There was no web application logging, no logs in event viewer I had nothing to go on, until I remembered I hadn't checked my IIS logs.
The logs showed requests for the ASP.Net documents and that a 404 was being returned. This part wasn't helpful but the logs also provide a sub status code which was 2:
#Fields: date time s-sitename s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port cs-username c-ip sc-status sc-substatus
2008-02-27 12:39:13 W3SVC2 127.0.0.1 GET /default.aspx - 80 - 127.0.0.1 404 2
A quick Google led me to Microsofts IIS 6 pages explaining the sub status codes - bingo!
404.2 : "Web service extension lockdown policy prevents this request"
Knowing this and with the power of Google I resolved the issue in less than a minute. Just open the IIS6 interface, select the Web Service Extensions menu node, on the right you will see the web service extensions available - just select the ASP.Net extension and click the allow button.
thank you this issue plagued me for hours.
ReplyDeleteThank you! This saved me from pulling out my remaining hair.
ReplyDeleteThanks friend -- that was helpful.
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