Hello!

Some intro:
I am starting to migrate a classic asp web application (quite complicated) to .NET 2.0 environment and in the begining (of course) I am starting to learn the functionality of the existing web app.

This morning I came to work and started to rrun the asp web app, but my IIS (5.0) seemed to be dead. I couldn't run anything, even the localhost help page to get some information.

I disabled the "Show friendly HTTP error messages" from the explorer advanced options, and | got this messgae: "The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the processing of your request" - Interesting...

After doing some actions in the IIS, I succeeded solving the problem myself, I just changed the application protection to Low in the virtual directory folder properties.

Some info:
The Application Protection drop-down determines if this IIS Application is to be isolated in its own process, pooled with other apps, or in-process with IIS. This feature comes to give us the ability of isolating applications, configuring them to run in a process (memory space) that is separate from the Web server and other applications. You can configure applications to have one of three levels of application protection: Low, Medium, High.

Another thing is: The application protection determines how memory resources are allocated for ASP pages:

• Low (IIS Process): this level runs ASP pages using the same resources as the web service. The advantage of the low level is that you are given the most permissions and access. The disadvantage is that if the ASP service fails, the web service will be impacted as well.
• Medium (Pooled): this level allocates a pool of memory resources used by all ASP pages. The advantage of the medium level is that you control the amount of resources allocated. In addition, if an ASP page causes the ASP service to fail, it does not affect the web service. The disadvantage is that if one site causes the ASP service to fail, all of the ASP pages will fail.
• High (Isolated): this level allocates a specific amount of memory resources for each ASP application. The advantage to the high level is that if an ASP page causes the ASP service to fail, only that specific site will fail and not the other sites. The disadvantage is that additional resources are used by each individual application pool.

Hope I helped someone...