Re: So tired of this bug

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From: John Saunders (johnwsaundersiii)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:28:36 -0500

"Thomas Andersson" <1qa2ws3ed4rf5tg6yh@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:827075DB-AF57-49AC-8387-7138F9E8373A@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am so so tired of getting this error message when I try to open a web
> project or create a new one:
>
> The web server reported the following error when attempting to create ot
> open the web project located at the following URL: 'http://localhost/...'
> A connection with the server could not be established

You gave a list of things you try to fix this, but no information on what
troubleshooting techniques you use. Given the list of fixes you've tried, I
recommend you start from scratch. I further recommend that you try keeping
this simple.

Start with: what does the IIS log say? Do you have Frontpage extensions
installed and enabled? Is this happening on existing web projects? Are these
projects all local? If so, try to keep a record of the date/time when
opening one of these projects succeeds. Then, when one fails, you can maybe
try to figure out what happened between the time it last succeeded and the
time it failed. You can also try some of the other web projects which have
succeeded in order to determine whether any of those now fail. It will be
interesting to see what the failures have in common with each other.

I used to have problems like this with VS2002. I have gotten down to a
pattern that works all of the time:

1) Create the file system folderfor the web project
2) Right-click the folder and choose "Properties"
3) Choose the Web Sharing tab
4) Enable web sharing on the default web site
5) Open or create the project

I used to go though hell with Frontpage Server Extensions and web folders
and whatever else felt right, but that just doesn't happen any more. I think
that's because I simplified things and reduced the number of different
things I was doing to my server machine. That made it more likely that I
would find the problem, not less likely.

John Saunders

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