Name Started With Invalid Character?

[Arpan]

I am working on Win2K Pro. Due to some problems in IIS5.0, I had to
uninstall & re-install IIS. After re-installing IIS, when I try to run
any ASPX page (all my ASPX pages reside in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ASPX
folder) by typing the following URL in IE6.0

http://myserver/ASPX/MyPage.aspx

the following error gets generated:

A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource
"http://myserver/ASPX/MyPage.aspx, Line 1, Pos....

<%@ Page Language="VB" Explicit="true" Strict="false" %>
-^

I guess it's pointing to the "%" character (just before "@").

What's going wrong? How do I overcome this problem?

I didn't encounter this error prior to uninstalling & re-installing IIS
5.0.

Thanks,

Arpan

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Two ideas for you.

1. Make sure your ASPX editor is saving the file in UTF-8.

You don't mention whether you're using ASP.NET 1.1 or 2.0 but...

2. Run, first, from whichever installation directory for .Net Framework version you're using

{
Drive:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
or
Drive:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322
}

aspnet_regiis -u

and then, immdiately after that, run

aspnet_regiis -i

 

[Arpan]

Juan....I did it in a bit different way. I opened a command prompt and
navigated to

C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

& then ran these commands in this order from the command prompt:

aspnet_regiis.exe -i

aspnet_regiis.exe -e

& finally restarted IIS.

Nevertheless, thanks to you for your suggestion as well.

Regards,

Arpan

 

[Arpan]

BTW, Juan, any idea what caused that error?

Arpan

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Something you, or your system, did misconfigured ASP.NET's IIS registration.
Reconfiguring it fixed it.




BTW, Juan, any idea what caused that error?

Arpan