ASP pages in IIS using Localhost 401.3 Error do not have permission

Question

I have just installed the IIS so I can view asp files in a browser but when I put the address in a browser as : http://localhost/index.asp I get an error.

The error

Answer 1

In my case I had created an application in IIS 7 on Windows 7 using "Add Application" on the Default Web Site. I had to add the "users" account from the local machine and that got rid of the permissions error.