Error Opening Project

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falco

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I have been working on a project for about a week now.

For no apparent reason when I try to open the solution that has the project in it, I get the following error message:

The web server reported the following error when attempting to create or open the web project located at the following url: http://machinename/... The http redirect request failed

I have a duplicate of this project at work that is producing the same error.

I can open and run other projects but not this particular one.

The online version is working fine.
 
I did set it as an application.

After doing an elimination process, the authorization block in the webconfig is causing the problem. On the production server, it is running without error. But locally, when I take out the authorization block with Notepad, it opens...insert it, project wont open.

This is a dilemma I need to solve.

Here is the block in the webconfig.

<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="default.aspx">
</forms>
</authentication>

<authorization>
<deny users ="?" />
</authorization>

BTW - I just recently upgraded to .Net 2003
 
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I had a similar problem shortly after I installed VS.NET 2003. After some research I found that there was a Custom Header entry in the IIS property window titled "X-Powered-by: ASP.NET". I removed this and now it works fine. Just wondering if any one knows what caused this (i.e. did VS.NET 2003 do this?). I do have VS.NET 2002/2003 co-installed on my development machine.

-MC
 
ORDER OF INSTALLATION
Windows XP Pro
IIS (with FPSE)
.net Framework 1.0
VS.net 2003
.net Framework 1.1

I received the same error, but when trying to CREATE a new C# Web Application. After the above installation steps I had to fix up the application mappings with the reg tool (I forget the name of the tool). I tried your suggestions but they didnt work. Im going to try uninstalling IIS and VS.net so install order will look like:

Windows XP Pro
IIS (with FPSE)
.net Framework 1.0
.net Framework 1.1
VS.net 2003
 
ORDER OF INSTALLATION WAS THE ISSUE
The following order works:

Windows XP Pro
IIS (with FPSE)
Windows XP SP1 patch
.net Framework 1.1
VS.net 2003
 
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