Question

I’m having problems refreshing .Net 2.0 with IIS 6.

I have been able to successfully execute "aspnet_regiis.exe -i", but when I try to register the aspnet_isapi.dll:

regsvr32 “C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll"

I get the error

C:\Windows..\aspnet_isapi.dll was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found.

The file cannot be registered.

Does anyone know how to resolve this? Google hasn’t been very helpful.

Edit: My problem is actually that IIS isn’t serving my webpages properly – that is, it’s returning 404s when I try to request .aspx files that I know exist.

I can access .gif and .js files OK, but I can’t access .aspx or other .Net files. I know this is related to .Net being properly configured with IIS, and the above commands are supposed to be the solution, but the second command doesn’t work.

@aaronjensen: Your command to register scripts worked successfully, and investigating the logs I find that I’m getting an entry for my failed request with status 404, substatus 2.

Microsoft tells me this because "Lockdown Policy Prevents This Request".

If a request is denied because the
associated ISAPI or CGI has not been
unlocked, a 404.2 error is returned.

Which I assume is due to the isapi DLL in my original query being denied?

Answer 1

In the end, I think the problem was caused by a step that is missed by the script when you refresh ASP.Net 2.0 with IIS 6.

I managed to resolve this using the following steps:

• Refresh the install using C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis -s /w3svc/1/root

• Enable ASP.Net Web Service Extension in the IIS 6 Management Console – it looks like the extension was not enabled by default in IIS, hence the 404.2 Lockdown Policy Prevents This Request errors that I was seeing. Instructions to enable the ASP.Net webservice extension are on MSDN.