>>I recently installed vs2005 2.0 and am in the process of creating/testing simple .aspx's.
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>>From the vs2005, I select View in Browser and the Browser is opened and displays properly. The url is something like http://localhost:3625/wconnect/HelloWorld.aspx
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>>If I then open another instance of the Browser and type in //localhost/wconnect/HelloWorld.aspx I get "Server Application Error". I can type in //localhost/wconnect/HelloWorld.htm and it works okay.
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>>This problem also exists with *.asp files.
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>>Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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>>Dale S.
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>In VS 2005 you can run a page or a site without creating a virtual directory. Maybe when you run the page from the VS 2005 that is what happens, the page is ran by VS 2005. When you run it outside the VS 2005 it expects to be in a virtual directory.
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>Did you actually create a virtual directory /wconnect?
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>HTH.

Yes the virtual exists.

I've created a couple other virtual directories for testing purposes and get the same problem.

I can connect to *.htm's in all the directories using localhost, just not asp or aspx files.