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Hi,

I have installed Visual Studio.Net and I am writing vb-programs, there is no problem there(technically speaking). I want to start up a new 'solution' in which I will write a web-application (ASP). When I try to open a new project however, I get this error :

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error.

I have search the web for days but none of the 'fixes' or 'solutions' work. In C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\Logfiles I find the errorlog which says :

127.0.0.1 GET /WebApplication1/get_aspx_ver.aspx 500
127.0.0.1 GET /get_aspx_ver.aspx 500

As I understand it, .Net will always try to point to an aspx-file when it starts the web-application-IDE.

IIS is installed on my pc as required but I have not gone too far in configuring it because I am not familiar with it.

BTW: this error also shows up in google connected to apache-servers so it may not be a .Net-problem exclusively.


Does anyone have any idea what to do about this?

TM.

500 Internal Server Error is a generic error code for when a script does something it's not supposed to, for example if there's a syntax or runtime error in a Perl script you'll get a 500 Server Error if you try to load it. Normally any error messages generated by the scripting engine that produced the error will be recorded in the logfile, e.g. "Syntax error at line x in somescript.pl".