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BUG: Error Creating New Web Project from a Restored Backup

Article ID: 192636

Article Last Modified on 6/29/2007

Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

This article was previously published under Q192636

SYMPTOMS

When trying to create a new Web project from a restored backup the following error occurs:

An HTTP error occurred. The server could not complete your request. Contact your Internet service provider or Web server administrator to make sure that the server has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed, and that the Web application exists on that server.

CAUSE

The problem is that the Web project has been restored from a backup, and the Internet Information Server (IIS) Execute permissions have not been set for the _VTI_BIN directory (and sub directories) in the Web project. This is a side effect of a Microsoft Windows NT backup/restore.

RESOLUTION

Go into the Microsoft Management Console and turn on Execute privileges for an existing Web project's _VTI_BIN dir.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

NOTE: To prevent future occurrences of this problem, you can upgrade the Web server to Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions or later. You can download the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140179(office.10).aspx

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

205696 FPSE: How to Install FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions for Internet Information Server

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Go into the Microsoft Management Console and turn off Execute privileges for an existing Web project's _VTI_BIN dir.
Attempt to connect to that existing project in Visual InterDev.

Keywords: kbbug kbextension kbpending kbwebserver KB192636