SOLUTION: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error when creating web project

[Stuart Campbell]

I just had to post this solution. Hope it helps someone!

When I tried to create a ASP.NET web project in VS.NET 2003 I kept getting
the following error:
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Microsoft Development Environment
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The Web server reported the following error when attempting to create or
open the Web project located at the following URL:
'http://localhost/WebApplication1'. 'HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error'.
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OK Help
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I found LOADS of 'solutions' to this problem on the web and in the
newsgroups but nothing seemed to work.
Finally, The one that worked for me was the simplest of them all:
.......make sure that the default website in IIS has an application!!!!!!!
(must have removed it when I was cleaning up the other day - doh!)
- In IIS right-click the Default Website
- Properties
- Home Directory tab
- Under Application Settings click the 'Create' button next to the
Application name text box. (the button will then become a 'Remove' button)
- That's it!!!!

If there was already an application there then this won't help. Try running
<win directory>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\<framework version
here>\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

Hope this helps

Stuart