Asp.Net Website: The XML page cannot be displayed.

When I run a web application through Visual Studio, the application was working fine. Later to access the Web application through IP Address, we installed IIS on the machine. Later when we tried to access the URL, the following erros is shown.

Error:
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource 'http://localhost/xxx.aspx. Line 1, ...

ReSolution: The fix is we just need to reinstall .NET framework

In Command Prompt Execute: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Aspnet_regiis.exe -i

Resource: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=306005
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/archive/2006/03/30/88491.aspx

Hope it helpz...

Ramadhan Kareem :)

Fauzi

Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server is not configured correctly...

Hey all:

When you build a web solution in Visual studio, if the following error message is shown:

"Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server is not configured correctly. See help for common configuration errors. Running the web page outside of the debugger may provide further information."

There can be two reasons...

A) The directory where the web application stays may not be configured as web application.

Steps to Solve:
1. Right click the project folder & Click properties.
2. Select "Web Sharing" tab.
3. Choose the option "Share this folder" radio button & Edit Alias window will pop-up, Press OK and build the application.

B) The Frame work version may not be the appropriate one.
Steps to Solve:
1. Right click the project folder from IIS (Run>inetmgr), Click properties
2. Select ASP.NET tab & select the appropriate ASP.NET Version from combo box.
3. Press OK & build the application again.

Hope it is helpful...

Regards
Fauzi

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion

Hi,

I think i should blog this today. I use Windows Server 2003 Standard edition as development cum test server.
I was supposed to setup Sharepoint instance & CMS site. When i tried to run IIS 6.0, the website was stopped & when i tried to start it showed the following error :

"The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

So I googled for the issues and tried the following are the solutions:

1. Disabled firewall

2. Disabled Antivirus for a while & checked.

3. Thought framework might not be installed properly so ran aspnet_regiis -i from C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

4. Tried update to registry through regedit.exe as suggested by Microsoft support team

5. There was apache server running on the same server. As it was running on port 80, I changed the port for IIS to 82.

6. People in forum adviced to explore events logs, when i tried so i found that there was an error message registered saying "The World Wide Web Publishing Service service terminated with the following error: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done."
I suspected that there might be permission related issue. so gave permission for adminstrator account to default application pool and removed users marked as "Unknow".

7. Then googled further... found SP2(Service pack) for Asp.Net framework 2.0... downloaded & installed that as well...

restarted when ever it was necessary... thought let me take a break or else lets give Server a break (Lol), called it a day.

Next day at work when i was telling my attempts to my collegue, when he tried connecting to the server OMG It worked fine (Lol) I believe installing Framework 2.0 could have helped...

If you have faced a similar scenario please share us your solutions :)

Regards
Fauzi ~4Z