Re: IIS 5.0 shows running but does not display webpage

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From: Tom Kaminski [MVP] ((A_at_T))
Date: 08/06/04


Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:16:49 -0400


"makes" <makes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97A2E5A8-F8DB-49A0-940F-9EFF472E9915@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> One of the Webservers on a Windows 2000 Server platform had the following
> problem. IIS services displayed a "running" status for all of the sites,
but
> when I browse the sites, the sites could not display and came up with some
> error message.
>
> I did not have time to record the message as this occured on an extremely
> important webserver and had to recycle the IIS Admin service immediately,
> which brought the sites back up, running normal.
>
> Any idea as to why IIS indicated a "running" status while the sites were
> actually down?

Not without knowing the error message ...

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