Win 7 Pro, IIS 7.5, ASP and MSE7.exe - HELP PLEASE??

[TomTomASP]

Hi Guys

I have recently bought a new laptop with Windows 7 Professional pre installed.

I have a few Classic ASP web sites that I have built and maintain and so I need to be able to run these on IIS 7.5 and also be able to debug these with the Microsoft Script Editor (MSE7.exe)

I have been trying to set up IIS 7.5 (comes with 7 Pro) to do this but it is completely different in appearance from IIS 5.1 (installed on XP Pro) and I have not yet managed to get the set up right.

The main problem I am getting is that MES7.exe, the ‘Just in Time’ script debugger does not fire up when there is an error in the code and completely ignores ‘stop’ statements.

I have set ‘enable server side script debugging’ and ‘enable client side script debugging’ to true in the ASP tab in IIS and set the ‘send error messages to browser’ to true but still no joy.

MSE7 is installed as it comes with Office 2003 which I have installed and works fine on my XP machine. I can open the program but I can not find out how to make it automatically intercept error so that I can step through the code.

In XP Pro IIS 5.1 there is option for virtual directories called “Application Protection”. This must be set to Low to enable the debugger to fire up. It seems like the equivalent option in IIS 7.5 is not set correctly as the result I am getting from Windows 7 is exactly as if Application Security was set to Medium on my XP machine

Any help to resolve this issue would be hugely appreciated as my laptop was a big waste of money if I cant get this sorted. I have been tearing my hair out for days now

 

[Arc]

I may suggest you a way out but dont know how far it is acceptable . Why dont you use XP to run the desired programs ?

There are mainly two ways to run xp alongwith windows 7. #1 is through virtual machine, and #2 is as dual boot. Both the methods have their own ups and downs, but I am describing the both in brief :

#1 : for virtualisation, you need a software. The paid option is VMware Virtualization Software and the free option is VirtualBox. Install either, and then install xp in it. Now you will be able to use xp without shutting down win 7, and through the unity option enabled, you can use the programs installed in xp from win 7 desktop.

#2 For dual booting, just follow the method two of the http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html tutorial . Here you are to shut down win 7 to log on in xp

Choose according to your choice.

 

[TomTomASP]

Thanks Arc but those are not really solutions, workarounds yes but which hopefully i wont have to do either of them.

It must be possible to do what i am asking in Windows 7 with IIS 7.5?, someone ???

 

[Arc]

Thanks Arc but those are not really solutions, workarounds yes but which hopefully i wont have to do either of them.

It must be possible to do what i am asking in Windows 7 with IIS 7.5?, someone ???

You may give a glance Here : Installing IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate . It might be helpful to you.

May check here, too : http://www.iis.net/

 

[TomTomASP]

Hi Arc

On the first link where it says "Type the following command into a script:"
does that mean type that in to the 'Run' form ??
I tried it but no joy

do i have to type that all in to command prompt ?

 

[Arc]

Hi Arc

On the first link where it says "Type the following command into a script:"
does that mean type that in to the 'Run' form ??
I tried it but no joy

do i have to type that all in to command prompt ?

Hi Tom,
Actually I never used ssi ... I just tried to give you some useful links .... as you have ample experience, I think you will find your own way out of those

 

[TomTomASP]

Still not working

 

[Arc]

Try again , pal. If there is a problem, there must be a solution.

 

[TomTomASP]

Hi Archie, I have similar posts in 3 forums;
http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/75099-win-7-pro-iis-7-5-asp-mse7-exe-help-please.html
Win 7 Pro, IIS 7.5, ASP and MSE7.exe, Just In Time Debugging ?? - HELP PLEASE?? : The Official Microsoft IIS Site
Win 7 Pro, IIS 7.5, ASP and MSE7.exe, Just In Time Debugging ?? - HELP PLEASE?? - ASP Free

Not one person has come up with a solution,
I am beginning to think that this must be either an unanswered bug with Windows 7 &/OR IIS 7.5 or maybe Microsoft, in their quest to force everyone to use their newest and most expensive products have simply disabled this feature in Win 7 / IIS 7.5

Either way i am surprised no body has shed any light on this as there must be many other ASP developers who are having the same problem

 

[Arc]

Hi Archie, I have similar posts in 3 forums;
http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/75099-win-7-pro-iis-7-5-asp-mse7-exe-help-please.html
Win 7 Pro, IIS 7.5, ASP and MSE7.exe, Just In Time Debugging ?? - HELP PLEASE?? : The Official Microsoft IIS Site
Win 7 Pro, IIS 7.5, ASP and MSE7.exe, Just In Time Debugging ?? - HELP PLEASE?? - ASP Free

Not one person has come up with a solution,
I am beginning to think that this must be either an unanswered bug with Windows 7 &/OR IIS 7.5 or maybe Microsoft, in their quest to force everyone to use their newest and most expensive products have simply disabled this feature in Win 7 / IIS 7.5

Either way i am surprised no body has shed any light on this as there must be many other ASP developers who are having the same problem

Very sorry for you, Tom! I have told you earlier that I dont have any experience about ssi . I am feeling that you have tried your best, but pal, one earliest day it must be solved. I will request you to use it in xp till it is solved, in either way I told you earlier.

 

[TomTomASP]

I'll have to try the virtualization method i think Archie,
Will post back with results

 

[Arc]

I'll have to try the virtualization method i think Archie,
Will post back with results

Hope your problem will originally be solved as soon as possible, Tom . Virtualisation is also a good alternative . Wish you best of luck

 

[Cornan]

Me, too (I just insert a divide by zero)

The JIT problem is not exclusive to Windows 7.

I also maintain hybrid ASP / ASP.NET sites and would like to know how to get JIT to work when it doesn't.

I normally put in a divide by zero to start debugging a classic ASP page, then advance the (yellow arrow) current statement pointer and keep on debugging.

But when the divide by zero won't fire the JIT debugger in VS, it's really hard to debug.

I'm joining the thread hoping one of us finds an answer. I think I just lost JIT on one of my (Vista) machines where it worked previously.

 

[TomTomASP]

Back again,

Hi Cornan, sorry to hear your suffering the same problem as me but glad I'm not alone.

I got XP running on a virtual machine on my laptop but it is not really practical to use this as a development environment.

I wish i had Bill Gates phone number & email as he'd be getting some pretty nasty messages right now.

Needless to say i still have not found the solution to this problem

 

[TomTomASP]

Still making no progress on this one,

Anyone else out there found a fix for Just in Time Debugging Classic ASP on IIS 7.5 with Windows 7 ????

There must be an answer...

The Truth is Out There.................
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[Coolness]

Hi Arc

On the first link where it says "Type the following command into a script:"
does that mean type that in to the 'Run' form ??
I tried it but no joy

do i have to type that all in to command prompt ?

You have to type the following into Notepad. Then save the file as a (something).bat

Hope this helps. Coolness

 

[Thorsen]

Found on IIS Forums:

IIS7 Client Side Debugging Problem - Solved : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Thanks for reply. My problem was couldn't debug on client side and found solution. Thanks anyway.
Solution for debugging problem is:
1- Push Win+R buttons and execute Run window
2- Copy/Paste this :

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/httpErrors -errorModeetailed
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3- Push enter button and thats all.


Dont know if that might help. I came to this thread because Arc posted for help elsewhere. this is the only related thing I could find.

 

[Thorsen]

Hi Arc

On the first link where it says "Type the following command into a script:"
does that mean type that in to the 'Run' form ??
I tried it but no joy

do i have to type that all in to command prompt ?

You can copy it all and then open a command prompt and right-click in the command prompt to paste it. The command prompt will run all the commands that are copy-pasted.

 

[TomTomASP]

Hi Thorsen,

Thanks for having a go at this one.

Unfortunately I had found that post and tried it before I started this thread. I have however reinstalled everything on my computer since then so i have just tried it again and still not getting the debugger to fire up.

 

[Coolness]

Hi Arc

On the first link where it says "Type the following command into a script:"
does that mean type that in to the 'Run' form ??
I tried it but no joy

do i have to type that all in to command prompt ?

You can copy it all and then open a command prompt and right-click in the command prompt to paste it. The command prompt will run all the commands that are copy-pasted.

Actually, dont think it will run it. No pipes anywhere. They wont work.