I am building an asp.net web application which has been working on local and staging. however, when i deployed to live, there is a little weird issue occurred. below is the live environment details.
live environment:
- Server 2003
- IIS 6
when the request url is below, if page not found, it will redirect to page 404 configured in the IIS.
“http://www.xxxx.com/folder1/default.aspx”
however, when the request url is below (with a dot in the folder), it will show a IIS default 404 message which is “The system cannot find the file specified.” which isn’t what i configured in the IIS and it seems like it skips all the http handlers and modules. Therefore, my custom http handler stop working with this kind of url.
“http://www.xxxx.com/folder.1/default.aspx”
My guess it something to do with the IIS setting. i have have several research, there is no other issue like me.
appreciated if anyone can help. Thanks a lot.
Dion
One of the possible reason could be tool such as UrlScan – you need to explicitly configured it to allow dot(.)s in the url – this can be done by editing
<Windows Folder>\system32\inetsrv\urlscan.iniand settingAllowDotInPath=1