SharePoint Himadrish

One of the interesting issues in SharePoint is having one peculiar SaveAs window dialog while you try to open the SharePoint url. I have tested this with WSS 2.0 and WSS 3.0 as well.

The problem was happened with us in development box, and only a few persons were aware on this issue. SharePoint site was running fine, however one fine morning while I open the site url it just throw me one Save As File window dialog and the message was “Do you want to save this file? “.

I was confused! Again clear cache and put the url, same story, http://dwsswb1/ is not working.

I then put the full url, that is SharePoint url with default.aspx page name, something like http://dwsswb1/default.aspx and it works.

It happens with many other SharePoint web applications, and I was sure the problem is not with SharePoint as the application is running fine, but due to some other fact which restrict to run. My eyes turn into IIS.

do-you-want-to-save-file

I googled and find the channel 9 link http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/67580-IIS-problem-/?CommentID=67619.

The instruction to fix this issue is as follows:

• Open IIS
• Go to the Default web Site or the web application where your SharePoint is running
• Right click on it and select properties
• Select Home directory
• Change the Execute permissions to “Scripts and Executable”

  

  IIS Permission

  • Click on “Yes.” On this warning dialog

  

  IIS-manager-error-msg

  •  Another dialog will appear, which basically to make sure whether any inside folder will need to include in executable list. You can ignore the list by just clicking on OK.

  

  Propertise Window

  • Reset the IIS (good practice)

   

  Now, open the portal url http://dwsswb1/

  

  sharepoint-portal

   

  Hurray it works!!!