IIS and HTTP 500 Server Error

[quantass]

Im using IIS 5.0 on Win2000 Pro (SP4) and Visual Studio .NET 2003. For a few hours everything was fine -- I was able to create an ASP.NET web app from within VS. Now every attempt at creating a new web app or even accessing old apps from IE6 returns back the error message: HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error (Bad URL). Specifically under Visual Studio i receive:

The Web server reported the following error when attempting to create or open the web oriject located at the following url: 'http://localhost/WebApp1'. 'HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error'.


I've reinstalled IIS but the problem persists. The Default Web Site is RUNNING and is using the home directory C:\INETPUB\WWWROOT. As for Sharing Permissions I have C:\ and D:\ set for user name EVERYONE, ASPNET, and VS_DEVELOPER = Full Control, Change, Read.

The WWW Publishing service is set to automatic and is started. Perhaps a necessary service was disabled?

What must i do to get IIS and ASP.NET development functioning again?

I've already done a fresh install of Win2000 Pro, not 5 days ago.

[quantass]

Wellp due to the overwhelming responses to this question I'll assume it isnt a common problem. But just in case you stumbled on to this question hoping for a response I found a solution which worked for me.

The only thing I had to do was to go to Internet Options (which can be found under Control Panel or Internet Explorer's Tools menu). Select the "Connections" tab, click the LAN Settings button. You should the "Automatically Detect Settings" checkbox enabled. Uncheck this.

Now go and verify your web server as before. This worked for me.

G'luck.