Re: I hate IIS - "Server Application Unavailable" error message

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On Jul 3, 3:31 pm, "Juan T. Llibre" <nomailrepl...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
re:
!> I do NOT have a folder for "Application Pools"

Sorry to tell you this...but you probably have a bad IIS installation.
That folder *should* be there if you installed IIS 6.0 on W2K3.

Arrrghhh. The folder is definitely -not- there. I rebooted and checked
again. Nothing.


The only thing which occurs to me is that you might be running IIS 6.0 in IIS 5.0 compatibility mode.
Then, Application Pools would not be available.

How do I tell? AFAIK all of my .asp apps have been running just fine
for the past several years. I know have a need to server just
one .aspx page and this is what I'm running into. Not that it's
impossible but I don't see anything anywhere telling me that I'm
running in 5.0 compat mode.


If you are not running IIS 6.0 in IIS 5.0 compatibility mode, you can try one of two things:

1. Uninstall and reinstall IIS
Not fun but the lesser of two evils.

or
2. Install W2K3 into a fresh partition.
No thanks. It took me years to configure the domain, login scripts and
everything else "just right" so I'm not going to nuke everything in
hopes that it might fix this.


Uninstalling/reinstalling IIS isn't too painful.
You can get that done inside of a half hour.

re:.
!> or a folder for "Default SMTP Virtual Server"

That doesn't have to be there. It only shows if you have installed the SMTP server.

It's unlikely that I installed the SMTP server. It's mail anyhow so it
shouldn't be related to this. But then again... the fact that I run a
domain controller is VERY related to running a web-server so you can
never be sure.


re:
!> I DO have a need for a domain controller.

If you do, that's fine.

You *can* run IIS in a domain controller, provided you run ASP.NET
as a custom account, following the details in the link I provided.

What you should *not* do is run ASP.NET as the System account,
even if you think you're sufficiently protected.

Well Juan... it turns out that there is GOOD news after all. My
machine.cfg file did NOT have userName and password field in the
processModel tag. So I added one, rebooted for good measure and ran
the little code snippet from the URL that you sent me.

Guess what... it @#$*! works. Here's the output that I got.
<quote>
Windows Identity Check
Name: FAMILY\aspxuseraccount
</quote>

This "aspxuseraccount" is the account that I created when I started
following the steps in the link you provided. I'm very experienced
with ASP and all of this .NET and .aspx stuff is completely foreign to
me but what I think this is telling me is that *ALL* of my .aspx
scripts will run in the context of this account.

The real test is this one page in this web-app that I bought. I hit
the page... wait a couple of seconds and voila! It freakin works. I
have no idea why it works but adding the username/password fields in
the <processmodel> tag seemed to get things running. I still don't
have a "application pools" item but I really don't care at this point.

Thanks again and take care.

- Kevin



Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP
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