When running my asp.net hosting service (asp.net without IIS), on server
2003 with IIS not installed, I get the following when trying to process a
request.
"System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL (aspnet_isapi.dll)."

Of course the dll is able to be found, it's still in the framework directory
and for grins I even put it in my service's local directory. This is apparantly
server 2003 not allowing asp.net to be run if IIS was not installed. Is
there any way around this?

This works on win2000, xp with and without IIS, and on server 2003 with IIS.

If you can get ASP.NET to run without IIS having been installed,
unless you are running another web server which can host the
ASP.NET processes, like Cassini, I'll give you a medal.

How do you expect ASP.NET to run, if not on IIS ?
Did you write a web server for ASP.NET to run on ?

re:
>for grins I even put it in my service's local directory

I find that illogical actions are not a source of humor.
OTOH, I grin at what you attempted to do... ;-)



Juan T. Llibre, ASP.NET MVP
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> When running my asp.net hosting service (asp.net without IIS), on server 2003 with IIS
> not installed, I get the following when trying to process a request.
> "System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL (aspnet_isapi.dll)."
>
> Of course the dll is able to be found, it's still in the framework directory and for
> grins I even put it in my service's local directory. This is apparantly server 2003 not
> allowing asp.net to be run if IIS was not installed. Is there any way around this?
>
> This works on win2000, xp with and without IIS, and on server 2003 with IIS.