Hosting ASP.NET 1.1 Application in IIS7 with Windows Server 2008 Environment

Migrating your ASP.NET 1.1 application from IIS 5.1 to IIS 7 is easy task , until you had installed all the patches and Service pack , while installing the IIS 7 install the IIS 6 Comparable tools also

Check List:

Mostly in Windows Server 2008 there won’t be ASP.NET 1.1 , so we need to install the .Net Framework 1.1 , then the service pack for .Net framework 1.1 then the security updates for asp.net 1.1 , After you installed all the patches you can find the ASP.NET 1.1 in the application pool (fig -1)

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Yes now your IIS 7 is ready for ASP.NET Application , then Create a Virtual Directory and assign the Specific folder of the application , then assign the asp.net 1.1 application pool to the application

Click on the application in the right hand side you can find the action window [fig-2]Click on the Basic Settings edit window will open [fig-3 ] in that select the ASP.NET 1.1 application Pool and press Ok

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Tips & Tricks:

Tips 1 : Custom Error Click on the projects in the property area under IIS  Error Pages  open this right Click on the window and open the Edit window [fig-4] here you can set the customer error based on your needs [fig-5]

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Tips 2: SMTP –Just fill the Necessary details

Tips 3: Authentication - Purpose is same as the previous version this time must user friendly then before

Common Errors:

IIS Worker process stopped. – If you had not installed Service pack for 1.1 this error will come

An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.

Ambiguous match found – if you had not assigned the correct application pool

Folks all the above said procedures, tips and error messages are what I had faced in my production environment. Kindly bear for my poor English