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visual source safe internet was not enabled on this computer because IIS is not installed

I am trying to enable VSS internet http access on an existing Windows 2003 server w/ IIS installed. When i go into the VSS server configure and attempt to select checkboxes "Enable source safe internetfor this computer" and "enable source safe internet for this database" i get this error:

"visual source safe internet was not enabled on this computer because IIS is not installed"

I did some research and it looks as if maybe VSS internet is looking for the Default Web Site node in IIS. This has been deleted and only the few websites we have on this server are there.

In IIS 5.0 there was a way to specify which website was the "default web site", but i don't see that option in IIS 6.0. Also, do FPSE need to be installed on any particular project? I have FPSE 2002 installed on the server, but not configured for most web projects. I tried to create a web site in IIS 6.0 called VSS and point it to the VSS folder in Program Files, but this didn't work as well... any ideas?

Jeff Solomon Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:34 PM

Hi Jeff,

Try changing the websites IDs by editing the metabase file like described in this post.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=64494&SiteID=1

You don't need FPSE installed for VSS Internet access.

If you want to have FP-controlled projects using VSS as backend, you may need to write a registry value "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SourceSafe\API Current Database" to point to the desired database location. VSS2005 installer doesn't write that key (as VSS6 does) because VSS2005doesn't create a default database at install time, like VSS6 did.