I was on godaddy hosting, but it was not optimal to run my asp apps.

So, i took the plunge and switched to a VPS

Before doing the switch on a VPS, i downloaded from the microsoft website the VHD of the trial of windows server 2003 enterprise, to see if i am smart enough to manage a server by myself. In a while, mojoportal-sqlite was working.

So, i took my credit card and rented a VPS.

But... everything is different... in the rented vps (windows server 2003 standard edition) some tabs of configuration are missing, and it is designed to be configured from plesk (i dont like, i prefer to configure from the IIS panel)

If i configure a domain through plesk and make it run, i get this:

Server Application Unavailable

The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your request.

If i go into the application pool settings and i select a security account as "local system", it works

If i set a security account as "network service", it does not work... this is strange, because in the virtualpc image that i downloaded from microsoft website, it worked....

both installations are on sqlite

if i create a website using the rdc+IIS panel, i get this html page:

%1 is not a valid Win32 application.

... when i repeat the same steps by myself on virtualpc, everything works fine

i can only do a working website if i configure through plesk... that's weird

i should go to buy "windows server for dummies" hahaha

i solved the problem of:

%1 is not a valid Win32 application.

i will share the solution

in my default installation of win2003, IIS6 is a 32bit process, while by default the .net framework is a 64-bit process; that's why it does not work. While creating a website with plesk, it edits the framework path to the 32-bit folder; if you create a website by yourself, it will choose the 64-bit process.

So, the solution is to go in the .net 32-bit folder and run "aspnet_regiis -i"