No option to select ASP.Net Version in IIS 6?

Question

I'm running Windows Server 2003 64bit edition. I've just installed the .Net 4 Framework in order to get a new WCF service up and running. However, I have no options anywhere in IIS 6 for selecting the ASP.Net framework version. I.e. Right click > Properties on the website should have as ASP.Net tab from where I should be able to select v2 or v4.

Does anyone know why they're not there and how I can make them appear? For the time being I've had to go into Website > Properties > Home Directory > Configuration and change the .svc extension to use v4.0.30319 instead. So, everything's now working for my WCF service, however every other extension is set to v2.

How can I get the tab? It's not visible on any of my 23 websites.

Answer 1

Will the .NET 4 version of aspnet_regiis.exe work from the command line? You can use command line options to specify a specific web applications to be set (use aspnet_regiis -? to see command line syntax).

Answer 2

You need to create a new application pool that your .net 4 site will run under.

EDIT: That asp.net tab you're talking about doesn't do anything. It just allows you to change some configuration settings but you cannot use it to switch to .net 4. I've got multiple .net 4 websites running and the asp.net tab always shows the first entry: .net 2.0.*

Answer 3

From various websites across the Internet:

1) Confirm that ASP.Net 4.0 is disabled.

cscript iisExt.vbs /ListFile

2) If the entry for .Net 4 has a 0 on the left, then you need to enable it

3) Enable .Net 4 extension

cscript iisExt.vbs /EnFile C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll

4) Run the first command and you should have a 1 instead of 0 next to .Net 4.

You .NET Framework v4 apps should now run