Re: Cannot open a project

From: Karl Seguin (_at_)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:21:00 -0400

Don't think you mentioned it, but c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mywebproject is set up
as either an application or a virtual directory, right?

Karl 

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"Goober" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> I have a dotnet web app that opens & works fine.
>
> There's another application on the same server, in a folder below the web
> application.  Both web apps are set up as virtual directories there and
both
> work on the server.
>
> I am preparing to take ownership of the new project, and have tried to
open
> it, but get the following message when I try to open it:
>
> "Unable to open web project 'myproject'.  The file path
> C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mywebproject does not correspond to the URL
> http://localhost/mywebproject.  The twe need to map to the same server
> location.  Http: error 400:  Bad Request."
>
> The way I got the vbproj file over is to go into my wwwroot folder on my
> machine (Windows XP), create a folder mywebproject, and then go to the
> server the running app is on, grab everything in the mywebproject folder,
> and bring it over to my local box.
>
> I have tried 40 ways from friday, and cannot open the new project.
>
> I've checked local IIS settings, for the older app (which I can open), and
> the new app (which I cannot), and they are pretty much identical.
>
> I've tried editing the .vbproj folder and pointing it to localhost (it is
> currently set to the production server name), and that doesn't work.
>
> Even swearing at it hasn't helped.
>
> I'm to the point of considering re-installing Visual Studio 2003 on my PC,
> thinking that something's corrupt.
>
> Help!!
>
> SC
>
>
>
>
>

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