OK, most of you will have no idea what I'm talking about, but hopefully this post will save someone a lot of time if they ever run into it.

So anyway, I was installing our web product on my client's webserver, but I couldn't run our default page. Got a 404 file not found error. Went to the root of the webserver, just plain localhost, and still got that 404. It turned out that the system wasn't processing the asp pages. Brought pretty much the whole IT over and they couldn't figure it out, but then again, they didn't have anyone who knew IIS really well. Called the office, no one knew either.

If I didn't get it up and running, I was pretty much screwed.

Did some googlizing, and I found out that they used IIS lockdown, which basically shuts off the functionality of all files that it thinks could be a liability, with .asp files being one of them. I did a lot of searching and tweaking to try and figure it out. Finally, after rerunning IIS Lockdown and choosing a different security set, I was able to fix the problem.

Yes, I'm bragging. Because there are times when you really start not liking work, or you get really burnt out and you just don't know why you continue to work...and something like this comes along and it's like a kick start. To know that you're not stuck in a rut and that you're still learning, and that you can still get a little thrill from working and troubleshooting. That, and I was a psych major, and I get a small amount of satisfaction knowing that I'm the one who figured it out, rather than the IT guys who get paid twice as much as I do.

Of course, if I didn't figure it out, I would so be bitching in this post. And maybe freaking out.

Is googlizing a word?

Posted by Yano at May 25, 2004 04:01 PM

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