Microsoft KB Archive/224418

= Active Server Pages Appear Blank in the Web Browser =

Article ID: 224418

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

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This article was previously published under Q224418



We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx



SYMPTOMS
When you create a Web site or modify an existing Web site with Visual Studio or Visual InterDev, all ASP pages for that Web site may stop working or display only blank content in the Web browser.

ASP pages may work properly in other Web sites or other Web applications.

All HTML files continue to work in all Web sites.



CAUSE
This is caused by certain "TypeLib" metadata tags that are present in the Global.asa for the Web site experiencing this problem.



RESOLUTION
Edit the Global.asa for the Web site experiencing the problem and look for the following or similar metadata tags:

To determine whether you are experiencing this problem, remove any of the above tags if they are present, as well as any additional metadata tags from the Global.asa, and then try browsing ASP pages.

This problem is caused by having an older version of Windows Scripting environment installed on the WWW server.

Visual Studio and Visual InterDev assume a newer version is present when creating or managing Web sites and may create metadata tags specific to these newer versions of the scripting environment.

To resolve this issue please obtain the latest version of the Windows Scripting environment at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ and download the latest version for your platform.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, you can remove the Metadata tags one at a time until you determine which ones are causing the ASP pages to not display. However, the recommended resolution is to install the latest Windows Scripting environment on the WWW server.

Additional query words: ASP IIS Display Blank Data Content

Keywords: kbprb kbpending KB224418

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