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Howard Cheng

Hello,

We're doing some work for a client, adding some dynamic content to a
currently static site. Because this involves changes to their site
navigation, we want to redo that part as a user control. But in order to do
that, we have to convert all of the web pages to ASP.NET.

The problem is, with the schedule we have, we don't have the time to change
the extension of every file from .html to .aspx, as well as all the links
in all the pages (even with global search & replace tools).

So, our solution is to map .html files to aspnet_isapi.dll in the IIS
settings, but this doesn't seem to work -- the .html files are not being
parsed by the ASP.NET scripting engine.

Does anyone know if this is possible? Or do we just have to bite the bullet
and change everything to .aspx?

Thanks in advance.

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G. Andrew Duthie

Have you added the following to your web.config file? (or to the
<httpHandlers> section of machine.config, if you want it to be
machine-wide. Note that if you're adding this to machine.config, you
should only add the <add> element to the existing <httpHandlers>
element, not create a new one)

<httpHandlers>
<add
verb=3D"*"
path=3D"*.html"
type=3D"System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory" />
</httpHandlers>

If not, you should try adding it. In combination with the mapping in
IIS, I believe that should work.

Hth,

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G. Andrew Duthie
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Howard Cheng

Thanks for your reply.

We got this part on our own but now, when we view the .html page in a
browser, we get the generic ASP.NET error page, which says we have to add
<customErrors mode="Off" /> to the web.config file, but that's been there
all along, so now I'm stuck again.

At this point, we haven't done anything besides move navigation elements to
a .ascx user control -- nothing dynamic yet. I've removed all ASP.NET code
from the .html file and it still keeps coming up with this generic runtime
error page. In fact, I can't even get to any .aspx files anymore. Do I need
to explicitly map those extensions now?

Thanks.

At 04:42 PM 4/12/2002 -0400, G. Andrew Duthie wrote:
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Howard Cheng

OK, I finally got it to work ... after four hours!

I was following the example in my Wrox book, which had:

<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*"
path="*.html"
type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory,System.Web" />
</httpHandlers>

But this by itself caused an error where it could not load System.Web. So I
then added:

<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Web" />
</assemblies>

Which then gave me the generic error message. By removing any reference to
System.Web, the .html extension now properly executes ASP.NET code. Thanks
for nothing, Wrox!

Thanks Andrew for the help and the example, which pointed me in the right
direction.

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