IIS 7.0 and Vista Business - Blank Pages for all localhost addresses

Hi everybody,
I was using IIS 6.0 on windows XP previously. I have recently upgraded
my machine to Vista Business and have installed IIS 7.0 by going to

1. Installed IIS 7.0 by going to Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn
Windows Features on or off.

2. Tried running http://localhost/ but it returns a blank page.

3. Checked the log in C:\Windows\IIS7.log and there is no log of any
request or error so i think the requests are not getting to the IIS
server.

4. Opened the IIS Manager in Administrative tools and selected
Websites from the left hand pane. Under it is the defaultwebsite
which is pointing to C:\Inetput\wwwroot\ and its binding is
10.2.50.44:80(http). But its stopped and when i try starting it, it
gives me the following error.

Details:
"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process".

I am relatively new to IIS and I can't seem to figure out the problem.
Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.

regards,
Bilal

Re: IIS 7.0 and Vista Business - Blank Pages for all localhost addresses

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> Hi everybody,
> I was using IIS 6.0 on windows XP previously. I have recently upgraded
> my machine to Vista Business and have installed IIS 7.0 by going to
>
> 1. Installed IIS 7.0 by going to Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn
> Windows Features on or off.
>
> 2. Tried running http://localhost/ but it returns a blank page.
>
> 3. Checked the log in C:\Windows\IIS7.log and there is no log of any
> request or error so i think the requests are not getting to the IIS
> server.
>
> 4. Opened the IIS Manager in Administrative tools and selected
> Websites from the left hand pane. Under it is the defaultwebsite
> which is pointing to C:\Inetput\wwwroot\ and its binding is
> 10.2.50.44:80(http). But its stopped and when i try starting it, it
> gives me the following error.

The binding should be *:80 the * means no IP is assigned (All Unassigned),
which this should showing in the Binding screen, well at least on mine it
does. And I don't see C:Inetpub\wwwroot anywhere on any screen.

How can an IP be assigned if you didn't assign it? And what is 10.2.50.44?
It's some kind of special IANA IP.

http://www.arin.net/whois/ and enter the IP into the search box.

>
> Details:
> "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
> another process".
>
> I am relatively new to IIS and I can't seem to figure out the problem.
> Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.


Well, I did the http://localhost for the first time after doing some Web
projects with VS 2005. The Default Web site on IIS7 blew-up indicating an
impersonation error on authentication had happened.

I went to the the Default Web site to the Authentication screen and and set
Impersonation to disabled and the others. The only authentication that is
enabled is the Anonymous, and I went back to http://localhost and the
beautiful Default page showed.

Default Documents has a check mark next to it. You can double-click it and
see what the documents are, and you can right-click/Properties to see its
running state.