IIS for web apps

[noware]

I guess this isnt really related that much to .NET, but it is indirectly.

I have IIS on my computer (running windows 2000) and I cant get it to 'start'. you know how you would just start the services and then youwould be running the virtual server thing with the IP add of 127.0.0.1 or your username http://noware/blahblah.... Well I can never get it to start! Everytime i load the thing and right-click and then go to start - it says that the service did not respond in a timely fashion or something along those lines. This way I cant have the servre thing and so I can never see my ASP files and thus I can never run the Web services because it cant find that domain...

I also cant get the frontpage file extensions or whatever its called to work either, and I thik this is a related problem.

If anyone knows anything about this, Ill give you five bucks if you tell me how to fix it.

-noware

[GasDrinker]

Can you post the exact error message? Ensure that your Web site is started. Go to the Internet Services Manager from Administrative Tools to configure the server, and ensure that it is running.

[noware]

im running it from MMC, and just loading the iis.msc console and then trying to start the web page. the site is not started and I cant get it to start, that is the whole problem here. the error message exactly is:

'The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.'

Should I perhaps not be trying to start the site via MMC? I don't know of another way to start it.

Oh yes there is that other thing, um PWM, it also wont start the site. I get to the IIS thing the same way as the Internet Services Manager does it, I just go to run--> mmc but it still loads the iis.msc console... man am I vexed, I have no idea how to fix this. I am trying to run ASP so I can use ASP.NET and blah it just doesnt want to let me. If you can help oh man would I be grateful

-noware

[GasDrinker]

In the Internet Services Manager window, select your Web site from the left-hand panel and click the little "play" button on the upper-right-hand side to start it.

[noware]

that is exactly what I cant get to work, it just comes up with that message: "The service did not respond in a timely fashion" and you know the rest. I know how to start it, but it just won't start. It says the service will nto respond and I want to know why the heck it wont respond and what kind of banging on the computer do I have to do to make it respond!

[GasDrinker]

Is says that when you try to start the site, or when you try to draw a page from your Web browser?

[noware]

when you first click the play button, it just sits there for about 20 seconds,a nd then it comes up with that message. it wont even start at all. It just wont start... :-(

[GasDrinker]

Odd... check the services window (you've probably done this) to make sure the service is also running. Failing that, try uninstalling and re-installing IIS.

[GasDrinker]

Oh, and ensure that AFTER re-installing IIS that you re-apply service pack 2 again.

[JoshT]

And the security patches from after that...

[GasDrinker]

Right but the service pack probably will/might fix the problem.

[noware]

Hold on hold on! Wait im not sure what you mean by start the service... i load the iis.msc console and I cant start any of the things, so is that what you are talking about? I can reinstall it but I also dont know about the service pack-2 or whatever. I am just reading this stuff out of a WROX ASP book on how to install this stuff and it sure doesnt work. Can you tell me how to get the service working because Im thinkin that may be a problem. Also where should I get the service pack? Microsoft?

[GasDrinker]

head over to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com to download and install Service Pack 2, though the download might take awhile if you're on a dialup modem. Try that.

[noware]

so I should just download that, and install it, and then it should work? Because the error message states that the service was not responding, and would that be this service? I guess that is all i know for right now. I have a friend who has the roadrunner thing so I can download it pretty quick. Is there anything else I might do before I do this? or should I just do that and then try and start the site after that?

thanks!!

[The Magician]

Open the Services window from Administrative Tools, look for the IIS Admin Service, and click the restart button. When it's done shutting down and starting back up, try the MMC.

[noware]

Hey you guys are going to be so proud of me! I figured it out. Im sad to say your suggestions, although very insightful, were not the way to solve it. I had a more complex problem that would have been unforseen, and guess who actually helped me with the answer? Microsoft! Ha ha they were the last people I went to, and in the Knowledge base it told me how to do it. I havent exactly gone home and fixed it yet but Im pretty sure it is going to work.

All I needed was the client for Microsoft Networks thing to be installed so that RPC would be there (which IIS relies on). So you just install that or use a similar configuration that doesnt require it.

[JoshT]

Hey, MS's Knowledge base is actually pretty good. Especially if you start comparing them to other companies...

[noware]

yeah i found what a i needed really fast. you know people always say a lot of stuff about microsoft being pretty rich but creating third-rate programs, and I dont really see how all the other programs are just so much better you know? People say oh macs are more efficient and blah blah but what programs are there? is it really more efficient to switch to a MUCH more expensive machine with less software just because the processor is cooler and there are less bugs? I guess you have to decide which is the lesser of two evils.

[The Magician]

Erm... Macs?



















Ohhh, you mean toys....

[noware]

no no no no no!!!! that was the exercise... not macs