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Re: A name was started with an invalid character

roger_27 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:58:36 GMT

My solution to the problem was to delete the web app, add it under a different name, delete the web app, add it under a different name, then delete the web app, and add it under a different name.,

3 times I did it, and on the 3rd time it just worked.

I had tried doing the regiis -i and adding aspx and asmx extensions and they didnt work.

hop this helps someone

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

vcsjones — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:50:15 GMT

NewDays:
I couldn't get the "OK" button to enable.

It's a bug in that dialog... once you have the dialog properly filled out... switch focus between the file path text box and the extension text box a few times and then the OK button will re-enable.

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

NewDays — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:44:52 GMT

Thanks man, I needed that!

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

NewDays — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:42:21 GMT

I was excited to find the blog. I am working with Visual Studion 2008 Express with visual web developer on an XP professional box. When I looked I did not have the extensions mapped. I followed these instructions and once I filled out the page that allowed me to map I couldn't get the "OK" button to enable. I filled everything out, whats the deal. Help.

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

buehlej — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:40:17 GMT

I also am glad that these forums are available to find answers to even after the original post is close to (or over) two years old at this time. I also was unable to click the OK button as it was not available to do so. However, there was another tab for ASP.NET on that properties box that I had to select the version of ASP.NET I was using. Once I did that, a number of additional extensions were created automatically.

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

parulitengg — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:28:45 GMT

hi i found the same problem with my IIS. I mean there is .aspx extension out there. But when i tried to add the same i found that the OK button is always disable . Please tell me what i do to make it enable. I fill up all the text boxes there but the OK button is not enabling

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

vineyugave — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:53:10 GMT

hey guys thx a lot for this post this has helped me a lot !!!!!

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

rams2hari — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:09:58 GMT

and onem ore thing .

i m able to open the file without error just 2 days before ...but not today..hardly i made any changes in this 2 days .

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

rams2hari — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:06:56 GMT

hi ..

i have the same problem today and tried on google i got to this thread with the same prob as i have ..

i tried all the wayts posted in here but could not succeed .

but when i go to IIS and browse the particular .asmx page its opening..where as when i go to the physical location and opened it with IE ..its giving the same error..

but i don't have any case sensitive issues b.coz i am goin to the page folder and openiong .asmx file with the IE .i m getting the error unable to open xml input...

waiting for suggestions

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

Cletus — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:16:47 GMT

God, I love Google. They brought me to this post.

If I could suggest one other step it would be to go to Home Directory and then make sure that the "execution permissions"

is set to "scripts and executables".

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

mbanavige — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:20:03 GMT

glad that things are getting better but...

assuming you find whats missing for web services - what's gonna break next?
something went terribly wrong with your install.

fixing the extension mapping is actually just fixing a symptom and is not getting to the root cause of your problem.
i think i'd try chasing the errors from : aspnet_regiis -i

you shouldnt need to manually add extension mappings.
were you logged in as an admin when you ran: aspnet_regiis -i ?

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

MorningZ — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:08:58 GMT

vcsjones:
If it isn't in there, add it and see if that fixs things.

And that is a wrap... they were not there, added both aspx and asmx... all appears well now :)

Thanks for the patience and restoring my programming sanity

** Edit **
Seems like when i "invoke" a web service using the browser tool i get a 404 error not found... i must be missing an extenstion for web services... i'll term into work and see if i can compare and see what else is missing

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

vcsjones — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:35:25 GMT

Also, can you please tell us if the extensions are mapped correctly or not?

How to do this:

Open the IIS Manager
Click "Properties" of the Default Web Site
Switch to the "Home Directory" tab.
Click the "Configuration" button
In the top box look for ASPX and ASMX extensions, etc.

The executable path should be "c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll" or "c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll".

If it isn't in there, add it and see if that fixs things.

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

mbanavige — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:25:10 GMT

MorningZ:
but it *does* say right there in the screenshot "Finished Installing"

"finishing" and "finishing correctly" are 2 different things.

The built in webserver casinni handles "all" requests - no extension mapping required. iis requires the extension to be mapped. the fact that the code of your page is showing up in the browser indicate that iis is NOT maspping the asmx extension to the aspnet_isapi.dll

what were the install errors?

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

MorningZ — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:08:19 GMT

vcsjones:

Looking at this image:

It says there were errors during setup. What were those errors in the log?

Yeah, there's something else weird going on in that starting and restopping IIS works find via "iisrest", but the install has problems doing it... but it *does* say right there in the screenshot "Finished Installing" plus the framework operates just fine if i use studio or VWD's built in web-server.... so i can't see any reason why this simply won't work :-(