403 on new web application

Question

I've just installed IIS on my machine and tried to create a simple default page site. On the creation of the project the VS said that it could not configure the server and I sould do it manually. I opened IIS and "created" the site and gave it a name I also changed the security tab to allow anonymous access, and the asp.net version to 2.0

when i try to browse to the site i get 403

Answer 1

A 403 means "Forbidden", see here, but this can have different causes...

Maybe ASP.NET is not enabled on your server?
See this for more information...

Answer 2

Is the folder in your My Documents? Try moving it outside there, the stuff in your user profile isn't necessarily accessible to IIS.