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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:48:44+00:00

I’m running IIS 5 on a Windows 2000 machine. I have an application setup

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I’m running IIS 5 on a Windows 2000 machine.

I have an application setup in my “scripts” directory in my website, because it runs some compiled DLL’s. The application is set to run scripts and executables.

For some reason, when I try and access any .js files in that directory, I get “The system cannot find the file specified.”. I tried adding .js as a “text/javascript” mime type, to both the website and the directory, but it doesn’t seem to help.

I also checked the web server itself, and the .js mime type was set to application/octet-stream. I changed it to text/javascript, but it still doesn’t work. Do I need to restart IIS or the application pool? Or am I looking in the wrong place.

I also tried using text/text and text/html but that didn’t help.

I am able to access .htm, .jpg, and even .asp files in that directory.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    URLSCAN!!!!!

    I checked the log directory for URLScan and it was blocking files based on the .js extension. I added it to the urlscan.ini, restarted IIS, and voila! It worked!

    More Info:

    Directories:
    URLScan – C:\WINNT\System32\inetsrv\urlscan\
    URLScan logs – C:\WINNT\System32\inetsrv\urlscan\logs\
    URLScan INI file – C:\WINNT\System32\inetsrv\urlscan\urlscan.ini

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