Hello Ori
With Jays' invaluable help I am begining to shine some light on this problem.
I changed the application to .ashx following the instructions *to the letter* and still had troubles.
But Jay sent me an application that worked so I uploaded that and it did indeed work :-)
(By the way I would suggest to everyone work with .ashx as it eliminates a variable you can do without when try to get started as I am. Maybe convert back to .wgx when you are sure you understand everything else that is going on.)
This is from the email I then sent Jay:
what I did next was to copy over your webconfig and replace the application section in your file with the same section from mine.
I then set up a new website as before and it worked!!! <Very big grin>
I then went through the webconfigs and the error is in the httphandlers section:
<httpHandlers>
<!-- WebGUI ROUTER HANDLER
This http handler routes the requests to Modules/Icons/Images/Css/Xslt/Resoureces.
Client events are sinked through this router as well.
-->
<add verb="*" path="*.wgx" type="Gizmox.WebGUI.Server.Router,Gizmox.WebGUI.Server,Version=3.0.5701.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=3de6eb684226c24d" />
</httpHandlers>
You can see the add verb refers to path=”*.wgx” if I change that for .ashx (of course!) my original webconfig works.
I feel sure I changed that and somewhere along the line, VS2008 messed with my webconfig to undo my changes (or I screwed up more likely!)
I will now work through from a blank start to understand what I did wrong here . . .
The 64 bit server is working fine but there is a bit missing from the article you referenced Ori. On my machine - 64 bit Server 2008 IIS7 - when you setup a new site in IIS7, I had to select Classic pool in setup, THEN convert the Bin directory to an application AND put that on Classic pool as well - if you dont do that . . . it dont work.
Two (presently working) URLs are Jays test http://www.data.ukpolicing.info/mainform.ashx and my testapp http://www.vwg.ukpolicing.info/mainform.ashx
I will as soon as I can post a full review of what went wrong for me and how I fixed it in case anyone else runs into trouble.
Lastly, can I just say what brilliant support I have had through this process I am very impressed by this product, Jay and the rest of the team. Thanks so much for you help.