Added: January/12/2008 at 2:29pm | IP Logged

Chris,

I just purchased your ASPProtect application, and it is an awesome piece of work.  NJ

I have to questions.  First off I uploaded the application to my web hosting provider to test it for my employer.  It works great, smooth setup and install.  When I use it on my local development server, which is a Vistal Ultimate machine running IIS, i cannot get it to work.  I am not a fan of vista, but it is what they have for me to work on.  I have set the IUSR Account with the read write permissions that are available under vista to the webserver and the directory.  I keep getting Error 500.0.  Which as you know is real vague to begin with.  Has anyone else had these issues with IIS on Vista that you know of ?  I trolled your forums and was unable to find anything.  Perhaps someone knows of a quick fix.

Secondly,  I notice that you use 6 custom fields.  I am a DB admin SQL server and I also am very familiar with database design and implementation. I can also code a decent amount in asp.  I have about 15 fields that I need to capture per my employers request.  Obviously I could just set up another table and link the primary foreign key, etc, but having it all in the same table would be nice.  I don't want to break any of the code that you wrote by modding the tables that you have etc.  Any walkthroughs or thoughts on this ? 

If this post is outside the scope of this forum I understand in advance.

Thanks for all the hard work Chris, awesome app.

Added: January/12/2008 at 2:45pm | IP Logged

Hi,

1st off thanks..

As for Vista I dont know without more info... did you follow these instructions to hopefully see the real error?
http://support.cjwsoft.com/code/moreinfo11-1.htm

My guess would be parent paths?

Also, I personally like to run a nice clean copy of 2003 server or XP Pro with IIS in a VMWARE just for doing development. I can not stress how well that works especially since I have the things I needed installed in it and it always stays fairly clean.. plus I keep the vmware image on an external notebook drive so I can easily back it up or take it with me to another computer or on a trip and continue working on projects no matter how messed up the host computer is. Best part is VMWARE Server is free. Also I never have to set up the development server again. If it ever gets messed up I can use a backup and have most everything back up quick like.

Moving on... add your fields to the existing tables. No problem there.
As long as you dont rename any of the existing stuff you will be fine. Exactly how you add fields and access them via ASP code it as you said "out of the scopt of my support" but is is basic ASP/Database work. There are tutorials all over the net and more importantly looking at the existing code it probably the easiest way to mimic it for more fields.

Added: January/12/2008 at 9:12pm | IP Logged

Alright what do you think.

I have parent paths turned on...

#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2008-01-13 01:44:40
#Fields: date time s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port cs-username c-ip cs(User-Agent) sc-status sc-substatus sc-win32-status
2008-01-13 01:44:40 ::1 GET /password_admin/let_me_in.asp - 80 - ::1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.0;+WOW64;+SL CC1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.04506;+Media+Center+PC +5.0;+InfoPath.2;+.NET+CLR+3.5.21022) 404 0 2
2008-01-13 01:45:23 ::1 GET /password_admin/get_me_in.asp |11|80004005|[Microsoft][ODBC_Microsoft_Access_Driver]_Disk_or_network_error. 80 - ::1

Also I downloaded VMware, pretty cool, will get it installed in the next few days.

Added: January/12/2008 at 9:13pm | IP Logged

BTW I am running it as my default website on the localhost.

Added: January/12/2008 at 9:41pm | IP Logged

try lookin over some of this

http://forums.devshed.com/iis-97/asp-in-vista-iis-444592.htm l

http://forums.iis.net/t/1122844.aspx

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.inetserver.a sp.general/browse_thread/thread/b61da69d904ec02f/93f0c4497aa 088c4%2393f0c4497aa088c4

Added: January/12/2008 at 11:49pm | IP Logged

Chris, you are the man as usual.

I am posting the fix here in case clients of yours have the same problem.  Soon as I did it, I was up and running no errors.

In IIS Manager (Control Panel/Administrative Tools) choose View Application Pools
then choose Set Application Pool Defaults.
Then under Process Model set Identity to LocalSystem.

Thanks bro,

Charles

Added: October/07/2008 at 7:56pm | IP Logged

Hi,

I also use Vista, and may be one of the few that don't hate it. Perhaps because I haven't had any major problems - nothing more than when XP or Win2000 were just introduced. Maybe I've been lucky...

Anyway, I got stucked when, during initial configuration, when had to run the "get_me_in.asp" page. The error message I've got was as useless as the "500 Internal Server Error". It was something even more ambiguous along the lines of "Something went wrong. Contact the administrator".

At the end it turn out, as suggested here, a problem with parent paths not being enabled. I found the following article very useful in configuring the parent paths:

http://www.walkonmypath.com/asp-and-windows-vista/

I think this may come handy in the future. Although related to Vista for now, with the release of Windows 2008 server we can expect more installations to be performed on IIS 7.

Thanks!