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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">(repost of previous message apparently HTML'd by my mailer...sorry)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Hello,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I have been hunting for a solution to this one for some time.  I've</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">already tried all the easy stuff.  I have IIS 5 on a WinXP Pro machine.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I recently posted this to the Python WEB sig - apparently not many windows users on that</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I can run python scripts as CGI but not as ASP.  All I get is:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">(nothing else - no other errors or explanation - seriously)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I have tried:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">1.  Reinstalling Python (v2.7 from ActiveState)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">2.  Reinstalling IIS</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">3.  Running pyscript.py from "site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client"</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">4.  I have "friendly errors" turned off in IE</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">5.  ASP does work with VB Scripts</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Here is the most basic ASP page I'm trying to run:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Does anybody have any ideas?  This is really getting annoying and I can't</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">find a solution.  Other people have complained of this and I've seen no solution.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Thanks.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">J.D.</span></font></div>
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