>I have a website that I run out of my house. The computer I run it on has Windows XP Pro and IIS 5.1. The web application is written in .NET. When I run the application from Visual Studio.net I get the message below. The questions I have about this message are after the message.
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>Server Application Unavailable
>The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your request.
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>Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be found in the system event log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused this error to occur.
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>Questions
> 1. Where can I find the system event log? Is it under administration tools in the control panel?
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> 2. Has anyone else come across this before and how do I go about fixing it?

Make sure you have created an IIS "Application" If you developed the site on a different machine and just copied it over it wont have an application defined on the ''Directory' tab on the property sheet of the directory you have your site in.

If you haven't or are not sure how;
1 - Open IIS
2 - Browse to the directory were you have your site
3 - right click - get the properties window
4 - on the directory tab make sure the application name has something in it
4a - if not click the create button to the right of the textbox
4b - It will default to the folder name this is good as any unless you want it to have another.
5 - Make sure you have anonymous users allowed and set up in your security scheme.

Hth,