Hi, I have followed the instructions here (http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/install-and-setup/setting-up-umbraco-for-friendly-urls) to set up friendly URL's on a Windows Server 2003 VPS with IIS 6, but when I try to load the site i get a 404 "the page cannot be found" error. I have tried restarting the website, and restarting the IIS service but that doesn't help. Does anybody have any ideas of what else I need to do?
Furthermore, I notice that my VPS has 2 Microsoft.NET Framework folders: 'Framework' and 'Framework64'. The web service extension for ASP.NET v2.0.50727 is enabled with the 'aspnet_isapi.dll' file in the Framework64 folder. Could this be affecting it, should it be using the dll in the regular 'Framework' folder?
I think I'm getting closer: I changed the IIS wildcard application map to use C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll (I changed it to use the Framework64 folder), and now the home page loads, but all of the other pages still aren't loading and just returning the "page cannot be found" 404 error.
This post saved my life. I've been looking for a solution to why these weren't working when switching VPSs (from Win Server 2003 to 2008) and this solved it for me. Many thanks.
Setting up friendly url's - page not found
Hi, I have followed the instructions here (http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/install-and-setup/setting-up-umbraco-for-friendly-urls) to set up friendly URL's on a Windows Server 2003 VPS with IIS 6, but when I try to load the site i get a 404 "the page cannot be found" error. I have tried restarting the website, and restarting the IIS service but that doesn't help. Does anybody have any ideas of what else I need to do?
Furthermore, I notice that my VPS has 2 Microsoft.NET Framework folders: 'Framework' and 'Framework64'. The web service extension for ASP.NET v2.0.50727 is enabled with the 'aspnet_isapi.dll' file in the Framework64 folder. Could this be affecting it, should it be using the dll in the regular 'Framework' folder?
Is it an Umbraco 404, or the standard IIS 404?
Its the standard IIS 404
I think I'm getting closer: I changed the IIS wildcard application map to use C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll (I changed it to use the Framework64 folder), and now the home page loads, but all of the other pages still aren't loading and just returning the "page cannot be found" 404 error.
Well that did actually fix it, but I forgot to uncheck the "verify file exists" so that was causing the problem with all other pages.
@jonok
This post saved my life. I've been looking for a solution to why these weren't working when switching VPSs (from Win Server 2003 to 2008) and this solved it for me. Many thanks.
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