I think I might have seen it once upon a time. It sounds familiar. I don't remember what my solution was. Just how I researched info on fixing it.

>Perry,
>Yes it seems like I (or should I say one of customers) has encountered the infamous-http-500-error-on-localhost.
>Have you encountered this yourself? I should just tell my customer to call M$ tech support :)
>
>Thanks for the link
>
>
>>Here's a couple places that might help:
>>
>>http://www.iisfaq.com/
>>http://forums.aspfree.com/microsoft-iis-12/infamous-http-500-error-on-localhost-23593.html\
>>
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>>>I didn't find a good category for my question but since ASP.NET apps mostly runs on the IIS server I figured this must be as good of a place as any.
>>>A customer installed IIS (through adding windows components), but when he types localhost in the address bar of his browser he gets an error back. Computer has been restarted numerous times. I ran aspnet_regiis.exe. The error is a standard 500 internal error or something. I guess I could remove the friendly error message to show the real error message, but I've got a feeling that will not be too helpful either.
>>>
>>>So my question is: Does anyone know what could have gone wrong? What should I do next?
>>>
>>>I think reinstalling IIS might be the best plan. How do I uninstall IIS (do I just uncheck the checkbox in add or remove windows components?)
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Einar