IIS 6 - system32 directory 404

[RobFuller]

Afternoon, this is driving me mad and I know it’s something simple doing this. But my Certification Authority self-service website isn’t working, 404 The page cannot be found error. Now this is strange as any file I put in that root folder 'C:\Windows\System32\certsrv\" for example like test.txt doesn’t get found even though I can see it in IIS Manager.

If I make another virtual directory to say "c:\temp" all in dandy, as soon as it’s moved to system32 or below it doesn’t work! What’s stopping this, its drive me mad lol.

 

Thank you

[RobFuller]

Right I've been doing some investigation into this which I have found its w3wp that cannot create the files in the SysWOW64 folder. If I create the files for it, it does sort of work i.e. the page is displayed but it cannot file the certificate templates.

 

I've given the CertSrv folder full everyone permissions and still it cannot create the files, w3wp is running as a Network Service, should this be changed to a privileged user perhaps? Anyone ever come across this before!

 

Update: http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2006/09/30/Certificate-Services-Website-generates-404-on-Windows-Server-2003-x64-_2800_64-bit-edition_2900_.aspx doesn’t help me because I need to run a legacy web application on the same server. I'm just going to move the darn certificate authority I think!!

Edited October 22, 2009 by RobFuller