403 forbidden error when IIS is binding ASP web app on port 8080 to be accessed via a subdirectory

Question

Windows Server 2012 R2 / IIS 8.5

I have a number of folders in C:\inetpub\wwwroot;

 - wwwroot
  - index.html
  - analytics (PHP app)
  - occupancy (PHP app)
  - rooms (ASP app)

In IIS my sites structure is;

 - Default Web Site (bindings config is http port 80 / https port 443)
  - analytics (application)
  - occupancy (application)
  - rooms (application)
 - Room Booking (bindings config is http port 8080)
  - files

In my Default Web Site I have created an application for each site. I am able to access localhost/analytics and localhost/occupancy without issue, but when I try to access localhost/rooms I get the following error;

HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory. Most likely causes: A default document is not configured for the requested URL, and directory browsing is not enabled on the server.

However if I visit http://localhost:8080 I can see the application successfully.

So, how can I access the rooms application via localhost/rooms

I've made no other changes to system files. Little to no experience with IIS here.

Answer 1

I managed to get this working by creating a new rooms application pool.

Then in default websites > rooms > basic settings I changed the application pool to the newly created rooms.

I still don't know why this worked but it has. Hope it helps someone else.