Re: Can't access IIS admin window

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam_at_naplesgov.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:28:27 GMT

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:49:24 -0500, Stéphane Bergeron
<stephberg@webfocusdesign.com> wrote:

>Jeff Cochran wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:03:18 +0100, "Trond Svartvatn"
>> <__lilletrond@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I can't access the IIS properties dialog (or, for that matter, the
>>>properties dialog for any single folder), and I also can't uninstall it (the
>>>progress bar just doesn't go anywhere). Also I can't go back to an earlier
>>>restorepoint. Does anyone know what is wrong ? How can I fix this?
>>
>>
>> This gets tiresome to ask, but here goes:
>>
>> What *exactly* do you mean by "can't access"?
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm getting a similar problem as well. I'll try to give as much detail
>as possible.
>
>First, I'm on XP Pro SP1 and my computer is used for development and
>testing sites I'm working on. I use a variety of virtual directories for
>this.
>
>So, I open the MMC by going to Start>Administrative Tools>Internet
>Information Services because I need to create a new virtual directory
>just like I did several times before without problem. I start to unfold
>the tree structure and when I open the "Web Sites" folder I see a "stop
>sign" shaped red icon with "error" written in it and it's labeled [Site
>#1] and none of my virtual directories nor any IIS' default items
>appear. In the right pane is the following info: under IP Address it
>says *All Unassigned", port is 80 and status says "An attempt was made
>to lad a program with an incorrect format". Both "State" and "Host
>Header name" are empty. Right clicking on the "Web Sites" folder or the
>"error" icon and selecting "Properties" brings up an error dialog that
>says "Key not valid for use in specified state". Clicking OK crashes MMC.
>
>Additional details:
>
>When I try to browse to any of my sites located in virtual directories
>(using IE or any other browser) they load up fine but if I try to load
>IIS' default page (http://localhost) I get a "Page cannot be displayed"
>error page and the info at the bottom goes like this:
>
>"Technical Information (for support personnel)
>
>Error Type:
>(0x8009000B)
>Key not valid for use in specified state.
>/localstart.asp, line 40
>
>
>Browser Type:
>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
>
>Page:
>GET /localstart.asp
>
>Time:
>March 26, 2004, 7:41:04 PM"
>
>Line 40 in localstart.asp goes like this:
>
>sPath = "IIS://" & sServername & "/W3SVC/" & sServerinst
>
>Needless to say I'm stumped and I have no idea what to do. I could
>manage my server and create and edit virtual directories only days ago
>without problem. I have not installed any new software and haven't
>changed anything to my computer's config that I can remember. I do think
>I installed the latest Office XP update (post SP3) for the Microsoft
>Script Editor debugger (KB833858) but I doubt that's what caused it. I
>don't believe I have loaded the MMC after doing that until today though.
>
>I'd appreciate any help or pointers anyone could give me on this.

In your case, if you try to access a specific page on the site insted
of "localhost" does it work? ASP as well as HTML? You may have two
separate issues here.

Jeff

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