IIS 7.5 - 403 Forbidden

Question

Ok, I have scoured online resources and applied all the suggested solutions.

I am setting up a simple website on Windows Server 2008 R2 under IIS 7.5 using the \"ASP

Answer 1

Haha you think that is embarrasing! This is probably the 1000th webserver I've installed... 30mins of 403s!! I can't figure it out. There is a stub default.asp in there.. permissions all correct... everything!

I turned on "directory" browsing in desparation of flicking around.

default.asp.txt is sitting there..... DOH.

Need to turn OFF "known file types"... why is that setting like that anyway?