The Problem

Over the past several years I’ve found myself running into the same problem over and over so I thought I’d blog the solution so at least I don’t waste time figuring it out again.  So, when do you need this?  The answer for me is that I want to be able reference a web site without having to expose the underlying site structure.  For example, on the home page of my business, I want people to be able to type http://73rdstreet.com/Home and be taken to http://www.73rdstreet.com/HomeSite/Home.aspx.

The Symptom

You may see errors that say something like:

Server Error in Application … HTTP Error 404.0 – Not Found

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So, this may seem simple, but for an hour I wrestled with displaying images on IIS7 with vista.  ASP.NET worked fine, but no static files, css, jpg’s, gif’s or anything.  Just unformatted text.

Turns out when I added the web server in vista, I forgot to check the Static Content checkbox under World Wide Web Services / Common Http Features.

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