"Under Construction" message IIS 6

External Since: Oct 10, 2003 Posts: 40

Hi,

I installed IIS and Front Page Server Ext on my Windows
2003 machine.

When I try to browser to the localhost on the machine I
get the following. I even set a default page as it
mentions but I think it's a permissions issue? Thanks,
Dave.

"Under Construction

The site you are trying to view does not currently have a
default page. It may be in the process of being upgraded
and configured.

Please try this site again later. If you still experience
the problem, try contacting the Web site administrator.

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If you are the Web site administrator and feel you have
received this message in error, please see "Enabling and
Disabling Dynamic Content" in IIS Help.

To access IIS Help
Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open text box, type inetmgr. IIS Manager appears.
From the Help menu, click Help Topics.
Click Internet Information Services."

External Since: Nov 04, 2003 Posts: 1

Dave, by default, a file called iisstart.asp is installed
and configured as the home page. One good way to
determine if this is a permissions problem is to browse to
the following page - localhost/localstart.asp . This
should display the 'standard' IIS start up page in the
browser. If this displays, the problem is not likely
related to permissions. I had a recent installation that
did the exact same thing; gave the 'Under Construction'
message when trying to run the file iisstart.asp, but
could run the localstart.asp file with no problems. I
checked the code for iisstart.asp and basically all it did
was response.redirect to localstart.asp, assuming a couple
of server variables were met. If unable to redirect to
localstart.asp, the Under Construction message was output
to the user. I never did find out why the iisstart.asp
file could not run. Hope this helps.

Good Luck,

Harry Evans