BUG: Application Roots Are Not Reconfigured

• Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

A Web application does not run correctly after reinstalling Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 or manually removing the Web's application root. Without an application root, IIS will not run the Global.asa file, which typically causes data connection and application/session state errors.

CAUSE

Visual InterDev only configures an IIS4.0 application root when it creates a new Web project on an existing or new Web. This means that if the application root is removed either by using the Internet Service Manager, or uninstalling IIS 4.0 and reinstalling it, the Web application will not run correctly the next time you open your Web project.

RESOLUTION

There are a couple of workarounds to this problem:

Use the Internet Service Manager on the Web server that the Web application is running on to explicitly mark the Web application with an application root.

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Use Visual InterDev to create a new Web project on that Web application. This will cause Visual InterDev to configure the application root for it.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbVisID600bug kbWebServer kbGrpASP 
Version           : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: May 24, 1999