HTML/CSS file not served in IIS

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From: Razak (razak_at_mmsc.com.my)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:50:46 +0800

On my Win XP, IIS 5.1, I made a simple html file like follows:-

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>ASP Test Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Test
</BODY>
</HTML>

The problem is, browser takes quite a while and finally displays 'The page
cannot be displayed' error. The IIS log indicates status code 200:-

11:23:23 127.0.0.1 GET /test.htm 200

I made a simple asp file as follows:-

<%
   str="Test"
%>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>ASP Test Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<%=str%>
</BODY>
</HTML>

The browser displays the page correctly as expected. But when I insert
<link> tag as follows:-

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>ASP Test Page</TITLE>
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</HEAD>
<BODY>

</BODY>
</HTML>

again, the browser takes a long time and at the end, displays the page
correctly, but without the styles defined in styles.css. The IIS log is as
follows:-

11:35:59 127.0.0.1 GET /test.asp 200
11:35:59 127.0.0.1 GET /styles.css 206

The styles.css is a simple file like below:-
BODY
{
    COLOR: black;
    FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial;
    BACKGROUND-COLOR: darkorange
}

I further tested the file by replacing the <link> tag with:-

<link href="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

in both the asp and htm files. The asp file displays the page correctly
along with the styling. But the html still have the same problem as stated
above.

I have been searching the internet but it seems like nobody have this kind
of problem. FYI, i have reinstalled my Win XP just to fix this problem, but
it still not working.

Please help me.

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