WebResource.axd Not Loading

Here are the servers involved, IIS 7 and SQL 2005:

Web Server Version:  Microsoft-IIS/7.0
.NET Framework Version:  2.0.50727.4200

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.4053.00 (X64)
May 26 2009 14:13:01
Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation
Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.0 (Build 6002: Service Pack 2)

I found some similar problems addressed in a thread here
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/F...
about problems with no postback in DNN 4.4.1. It seems that compression was distorting WebResource.axd, so they excluded it and it worked. In later releases they got around the problem by only compressing MIME types of text/html. They were having similar problems then to mine now.

So I looked at the server configuration and could not find support for .axd files anywhere. I have tried adding a MIME type for them to the server as text/javascript, but that doesn't help. I also tried the suggestion in the above linked thread of adding two blank files into the DNN directory, WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd, but that didn't help either.

Then I started thinking about why classic pipeline mode with IIS 6 emulation seems to work a little better than integrated pipeline. The original error in integrated mode was complaining that it didn't yet know about WebResource.axd. So now I am wondering if the .axd file type must be set for ASP.NET 2 association.
Here is what my hosting provider has set up:



So, my question to you or anyone who knows about such things, is:
Does this hosting provider have the right setup, or do they need to add .axd to the ASP.NET-2 mappings?

If the problem is not that, then why are WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd not being loaded in the browser (IE and FF)?

Did you setup the configuration directly using the Internetinformation Manager?  If yes I want suggest that you first create the settings, then upload the files to the directory and modify the web.config file with a editor and don't touch it with the IIS Manager! 

I have made the experience that if you touch the IIS Manager after you have copied the web.config file it corrupted.  But this didn't caused on using a hosting application for setting up.

Windows Server 2008 have 2 IUsers, one for the integrated mode one for the classic mode. So you have to touch the correct user for your physical permissions.

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Regards

Matthias

DNN MVP

www.aarsys.de

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ShoutCastStats Module for DNN

Just to be certain, I ran Fiddler and got 404 Errors (File Not Found) on lines 39, 41 and 42, which are GETs for WebResource.axd, ScriptResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd respectively. Fiddler shows the transactions between the browser and the server as the browser processes the page.

However, later on the last line, 306, there is a GET request for WebResource.axd from www.dotnetnuke.com and it works just fine.

I take this as confirmation that the page cannot get these files from the server.