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ASP.Net and IIS (ASPX Extension Not Registered)

There  might be situations where IIS is not recognizing pages with ASPX extensions in your website even if the dotnet framework is installed in your system.

This usually happens when you have installed dotnet frame work first and then installed the IIS in your system. In this case, ASP.Net will not be registered in your IIS.

To register ASP.Net with IIS all you have to do is, goto your DotNet command prompt (usually this will be in the Visual Studio Tools menu of your Visual Studio.Net Menu in your Starup Menu) and type aspnet_regiis -i

aspnet_regiis is a command line tool which registers ASP.Net with IIS. You can also use this tool to unregister ASP.Net with IIS by specifying aspnet_regiis -u

But beware!! while running aspnet_regiis -i on a live production site consider the following factors too!!

• aspnet_regiis -i associates every website in the IIS with the dotnet framework. Note that every version of dotnet framework has its own version of aspnet_regiis which registers IIS with that version of dotnet framework.
  So if you have two websites in your IIS, one running on v1.1 of dotnet framework and the other running on version 2.0 of dotnet framework, and if you run aspnet_regiis -i from v2.0 of dotnet framework, then even the site running on v1.1. of dotnet framework will be associated with v2.0 !! So do not run this command in the above form (i,e. with -i switch) on IIS which has websites running on different versions of dotnet framework.
   

• Running aspnet_regiis -i also affects the auto generated values of form based logins and view state checksums by resetting them with immediate effect. This means that, running the command in the above form will affect all users who are currently logged into your IIS! Hence, this command (aspnet_regiis -i) should not be run when there are active user sessions in your IIS.

-by Gurudev
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gurudevp@vsnl.net
On 05 August 2005

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