IIS error - this program cannot display the webpage. - asp.net

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We have a dynamic data website using Telerik Open access, hosted through IIS 6. This application has been running fine with no issues in production. Recently, we added two new tables to the SQL database. These were added to the Telerik Open Access model and when tested in Visual Studio 2012 there was never any issues and ran brilliantly.
Then we published to production and when I browse to the application directly through IIS 6 to ensure it runs we get the error - "this program cannot display the webpage".
So we removed those two tables from the Telerik Open Access model and re-published and the Application runs great. So we re added the tables again and the same error comes from IIS.
This makes no sense as IIS normally gives an intelligible error. Why would IIS have an issue with two additional entities added to the Model but Visual Studio does not?

It looks like the model is somehow cached.
You could try restarting the IIS in order to avoid the issue with the new entities in your model.

We had a metadata file associated with the model, and it was not configured correctly. When we fixed it and re-deployed, it worked great. The strange thing is that Visual Studio ignored the error and it took publishing it to error on us. Strange.

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Problems publishing site to localhost on windows 2008 rs server

I must preface this post by saying that I am not an experienced developer, I am in the process of learning through trial and error and a lot of google searches so detailed (step-by-step) feedback would be greatly appreciated. I created a website, which does not use a database, using visual studio 2015 and I am attempting to host it locally on a Windows 2008 R2 server.
I installed IIS and loaded the asp.net v4.0 framework. The site works fine, produces no errors when I test it and works after being published only if the visual studio is still running.
However, when I close the Visual studio and open my browser window to http://localhost:50044 (which is the URL listed in properties menu in VS), I also tried using port :80 and nothing. When trying to add Web Site via the IIS management utility I receive the following authentication error: ”Cannot verify access path (C:\Inetpub\wwwroot).”
I checked the permissions and windows authentication is enabled with read access, and all other permissions seem to be correct. I am at a loss, I'm sure it is probably something simple that I am missing due to my lack of knowledge and experience. Any help would be appreciated.
It's sounds like you are running on IIS express which in your case stops running when you close visual studio. Normal process is create a new website in IIS and point to the folder where your web.config is. You can then hack your host file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc) so DNS works. Add an entry like "127.0.0.1 mytestwebsite.com". I hope that helps
So I figured out part of what was happening. I didn't realize that visual studio has built in IIS and was using that by default.
I ran VS as an admin, created a new project, then attempted to create a virtual directory thru VS under the project/properties/web tab. I selected local IIS and entered http://localhost/boc and it returns an error: unable to create vd. Web server http://localhost... Could not be found.
I then went in to the IIS manager and set up a virtual directory with no issues. However, when I attempt to reference it thru VS I again receive an error message.
Any ideas?

ASPX Page Not Found (Error 404), though it exists?

I have a C#.NET project and am having a problem with a single web forms, ASPX page when debugging my application. Most of my application works fine, but when I hit a particular page, I get an Error 404, resource not found. I don't understand this because the file does exist, and it exists in the path that is being referenced. And, I hit several other ASPX pages on the way to this one, without error.
Now, I should mention that this particular page was only recently added to the project. My coworker, who added the page, says he was able to get the page to work, but we have different environments. So, I'm sure that has something to do with it, but I don't know what. Below are the known details regarding the differences between our environments.
My environment
Windows 8.1
IIS Express
Visual Studio 2013
Co-workers environment
Windows 7
IIS 7
Visual Studio 2012
We are both running with the same source code, as well as the same site and application pool settings in IIS, which are pointed to run time 4.0 and in classic mode.
Does anyone here have any idea why this would happen, or what I might try to get past this?
I ended up fixing this by switching to local iis and enabling the Static Content option in Windows Features.

Visual Studio 2010 displays IIS 7 page on debug instead of my project

This is my first ASP.NET project so I am a bit of a rookie when it comes to a lot of the configuring of IIS/Visual Studio so bear with me...
I am using Visual Studio 2010 running on Windows Server 2008 SR2. We recently did some updates on the server and now my project no longer loads when I attempt to debug. When I try to debug the default "Welcome" page for IIS 7 loads instead of my project. I am set up to use the development server to debug, not IIS so I don't understand why I get the IIS page. Before the updates the debugger was pulling up my page without any issues.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
It looks like IIS is now bound to the port number that Visual Studio Development Web Server was using previously. You can change the port number in the properties of the web site project.
I have found a solution to my issue. I decided to use IIS instead of the Development Server for debugging. After attempting to debug unsuccessfully yet again, I took a look at the identity that was being used in the application pool and I changed to one with more privileges and that seemed to do the trick. Thanks for the suggestions.
I had the same problem but non-of the earlier answers worked.
I am using Windows 7 enterprise 64-bit, IE11, VS2010, Silverlight 5
I have been developing and maintaining a number of Silverlight projects for the past 5 years, and have always been able to debug them within VS2010 using the ASP.NET Development Server. However, on returning from some well deserved holiday, I found that none of my existing Silverlight projects would run in the debugger. In each case there is a Web project set as the start-up project, and in each case on starting the project within VS2010 (with or without debugging) I got the IIS7 web page instead of my application.
I tried creating a new Silverlight web application, and found that this started normally in the ASP.NET Development Server. I checked my source code and found that no changes had been made in my absence.
After a lot of head scratching, etc., the solution was to clear the IE cache. These are the explicit steps I used:
Close all instances of IE and ASP.NET Development Server.
Open Internet Properties from the Control Panel.
Click "Delete" on the General Tab.
In the Delete Browsing History box check the following options:
a) "Preserve Favourites website data"
b) "Temporary Internet files and website data"
c) "Cookies and website data"
Leave the others unchecked
5) Click "Delete" and wait for the command to complete.
6) Close the Internet Properties box.
7) Rebuild ASP.NET project
8) Start (with or without debugging) in VS2010 - it should now load normally.
Hope this works for you.

Asp.net Microsoft ReportViewer using rdlc page never loads

I have installed the Visual Studio 2008 sp1 Report Viewer Redistributable on the web server. I had to download it from microsoft, because the location I've seen other people post does not exist on my install of visual studio. I downloaded the one that is located here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BB196D5D-76C2-4A0E-9458-267D22B6AAC6&displaylang=en.
I think the location people say ReportViewer.exe is in, is usualy: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\ReportViewer\ReportViewer.exe. I have Visual Studio Team Suite Development Edition 2008 and the v2.0 directory under SDK does not exist. That may be some of my problem, I do not think so though.
I say all that to say that I can design the Microsoft Report, and I can run the page with the report viewer locally just fine. It seems to work really great, and could help out the company quite a bit.
However when I deploy to the webserver the page that host the reportviewer control will allways either say "This page does not have a precompiled..", or something like that. It usualy doesn't say anything and just sits there trying to load.
Other pages in the same website do not exhibit these symptoms. I have also successfully gotten crystal reports to display it's viewer, by installing the redistributable on the web server.
There must be something going on with one of our web servers. I finally got the report to load and it came up with an error message that said the same thing that this forum post talks about http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsreportcontrols/thread/b237dbab-7670-4c7a-b9af-70c5be7101d9.
I was then able to check the box that says allow precompiled site to be updatable. That fixed my issue. I now have both crystal and microsoft reports working correctly. Maybe this post will help someone else.
edit 2/18/2010 8:18am cst I thought it was fixed apparently not, as soon as I published to the web server again, the page will not load anymore. I am going to try and setup a completely new server in a virtual machine, to try and do more testing.
edit 2/19/2010 8:17am cst I spent alot of yesterday setting up a brand new virtual machine with server 2003, visual studio 2008, and sql 2005. I ran the same report page, all it has on it is the report viewer control. It still will not load. I figure there is something you have to do with IIS configuration to get it to work, since it won't load with default settings.
edit 2/19/2010 9:47am cst I have created a new web application with only the report in it, brand new web.config file. Something about my web.config file is causing the problem. This new web application is apparently working. I am now going to try and see if any new pages can be added to the previous web app at all. Maybe something is causing all new pages to not load.
edit 2/19/2010 10:12am cst Bizarrely the report sometimes loads. This happens on both the test environment, and the production environment. I did find a somewhat funny angry bug report to microsoft that explains the problem with the rdlc files compiling. That is what produces the following error:
**
An error occurred during local report processing.
The definition of the report 'Main Report' is invalid.
The report definition is not valid. Details: Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.
**
The Bug report url: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/468068/rdlc-files-are-build-into-resources-during-publish-this-is-a-marker-file
The blog post url that fixes it: http://weblogs.asp.net/stephensonger/archive/2008/09/10/deploying-rdlc-files-in-local-mode-for-asp-net-applications.aspx
As you can tell, possibly you don't find it funny, but there is a bug that causes rdlc files to compile for some reason. You can also fix it by having your site be updatable, which is one of the check boxes you can check when you publish in visual studio.
edit 2/19/2010 10:51am cst My next step is to snapshot the current virtual machine, go back to the point I installed sql 2005. At that point I'll install visual studio 2010 rc and see if it exhibits the same problem.
edit 3/3/2010 9:15am cst I don't know what fixed it, but both crystal and microsoft reports have been displaying correctly for awhile now. I made no changes other than what I have mentioned here.

Deployment of website

I deployed my website into IIS..I created virtual directory and gave an alias 'a'..but when I open the site in IE or Mozilla, it says 'Access is denied'..i write http://localhost/a/Login.aspx
Server Error in '/a' Application.
Where is the problem?
Seems most likely your web application is trying to run the app using the wrong .NET framework version, that got me the first time. But it could be pretty much anything.
You may want to set up visual studio to debug on the local (but external) IIS server instead of cassini (the debug server built in to visual studio 2005 and up) You can do this in the project settings but I don't remember the exact procedure. It's easy enough to figure out though. Visual studio should help you set up your web.config file to allow debugging. You'll be able to get a stacktrace error page and even break on exceptions.

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