Error Message: HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Personal Web Server version 1.0 for Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to access a Web page on a Windows 95-based computer running Microsoft Personal Web Server version 1.0 for Windows 95, you may receive the following error message:

   HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error.

CAUSE

This problem may occur if Personal Web Server is configured to use Windows NT Challenge/Response password authentication, but the computer running Personal Web Server is not using a Microsoft Windows NT domain to provide user-level security.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, configure Personal Web Server so that Windows NT Challenge/Response password authentication is not used or configure the computer running Personal Web Server so that it uses a Windows NT domain to provide user-level security.

To configure Personal Web Server so that Windows NT Challenge/Response password authentication is not used, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

2. Double-click Personal Web Server.

3. On the Administration tab, click Administration, and then click WWW Administration.

4. Click the Windows NT Challenge/Response check box to clear it, and then verify that one or both of the Allow Anonymous and Basic check boxes are selected.

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

2. Double-click Network.

3. On the Access Control tab, click User-Level Access Control.

4. Type the name of the Windows NT domain used to provide pass-through validation in the "Obtain list of users and groups from" box, and then click OK.

5. When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.

You can find more information about how to share resources in Windows 95 using online Help. To do so, use the following steps:

1. Click Start, and then click Help.

2. On the Index tab, in the "Type the first few letters of the word you're looking for" box, type "sharing" (without quotation marks), and then click Display.

3. In the Topics Found dialog box, click the appropriate topic, and then click Display.

MORE INFORMATION

Personal Web Server uses the same type of access control as the computer on which it is running. If the "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" network service is installed, the computer can use share-level security or user-level security with pass-through validation provided by a Windows NT domain or Windows NT-based computer. If the "File and printer sharing for NetWare Networks" network service is installed, the computer can use user-level security with pass-through validation provided by a Novell NetWare server. If neither network service is installed, Personal Web Server must use local security.

To use Windows NT Challenge/Response password authentication in Personal Web Server, the computer on which Personal Web Server is running must be using user-level security with pass-through validation provided by a Windows NT domain.