This is the 4th W2K3 Server I've setup (I do the web and SQL stuff; my very excellent Systems Admin does everything else) and each time I learn something new as I've posted in previous “To W2K3” entries.

This was a straightforward lesson.  IIS6 displays a

The page cannot be found

message when I know the page is there.  Full display here. From previous experiences I could conclude that something was missing or turned off in IIS.  Seems the ASP.NET subcomponent in the Windows Components Wizard was not installed.  Installing it did the trick.