IIS 7.5 under Win7 Prof. 64bit Returning Blank Page (No HTML at all)

Question

I am trying to setup my development environment in Windows7 and am having trouble getting IIS to work. I have set everything up like I have been doing since IIS6 so I have the

Answer 1

Matt Cofer's resolution is correct: in order to view static content you must have installed the Static Content feature during your initial installation. However, I found that Add/Remove features did not work for me: it only showed a subset of features and nothing to do with IIS.

So... here's another way to install Static Content:

1. Open Server Manager
   • Start Menu > type "server manager" in search field > click resulting link
2. Expand the Roles node
3. Right-click Web Server (IIS) node to view context menu
4. Select Add Role Services from the context menu
5. When the Add Role Services window opens, navigate to Web Server > Common HTTP Features
6. Enable Static Content
7. Click Next