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Q168501: ASP Downloads Text Instead of Executing

Article: Q168501
Product(s): Internet Information Server
Version(s): winnt:3.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbinterop
Last Modified: 30-APR-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) download instead of executing, even after
you install the ASP fix for IIS.

CAUSE
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You may have a virtual directory defined to a physical directory which parent is
another virtual directory, and both have different permissions.

Example
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Physical Directory c:\InetPub\wwwroot has an alias of "/" with Read Access

Physical Directory c:\InetPub\wwwroot\cgi-scripts has an alias of "/cgi-scripts"
with Execute access.

If you were to type in <server>/cgi-scripts/<filename>.asp everything
would work. However, if you used the 8.3 naming convention ..
<server>/cgi-sc~1/<filename>.asp, the server would not find the
virtual directory because it is not aware of long file names and their 8.3
equivalents). Because it did not find a virtual directory, it would reference
the file through the physical directory structure. Therefore, it would load the
ASP file with the roots access of Read.


WORKAROUND
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It is recommended that you never create virtual directories to physical
directories under existing virtual directories.

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Keywords          : kbinterop 
Technology        : kbiisSearch kbiis300
Version           : winnt:3.0
Hardware          : ALPHA x86
Issue type        : kbprb

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