I am using IIS 5 with Front Page server extentions (2000) on a Windows 2000 
Advanced Server. 

I am trying to connect to the website using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and an e
mpty web folder on an existing site. 

Anytime it tries to connect to the web server, I get a generic 500 error. I 
read the knowledge base and found an article that mentioned execute permissi
ons on one of the _folders and I checked that. Gave global Everyone execute 
permissions but it did not resolve the issue. 

It never makes it to the login prompt nor do I get to the point where it com
plains about not being able to open the site and asks if I want to connect u
sing FP extentions. (I had it working for a while and it just quit on me)

Since this is not a web browser issue, show friendly errors will not help.

I did remove (add/remove programs) the extentions and re-installed them as w
ell as removed the extentions on the site and re-installed them. I thought m
aybe a firewall issue and opened my PC up to the DMZ on the router. No luck.
 I also have this problem on a commercial web server that I web host on.

Any help or advice would be great!

Ron Hagerman

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