IIS on Windows XP Pro

[Frank]

I've installed IIS on Win XP Pro since there is no such thing as a version of PWS for XP.

Anyway, I did this so that I could work on my ASP applications on my local machine instead of killing my host's FTP server with constant uploading. Not that it would matter I guess since I host with Definitive Hosting myself (They are quite good Terry! :} )

Well, here's my problem.

I can get HTML files to show up. I can get text files to show up. I can get images to show up...All of that is fine.

In spite of that, I can't get any ASP files to run. At all. I've gone through all of the permissions and settings that I can find. I've had a friend install IIS on his machine, and I've talked to another friend who has also installed it. Both of them are not having any trouble. ASP runs on their machines just fine without changing anything, however I can't seem to get ASP to run at all.

This is driving me batty! I even tried to reinstall Win XP from scratch and believe it or not I still can't get it to run ASP files.

I checked the event viewer and this is the specific error it gives me:

"The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT'. The error was '8007053d'. "

I have absolutely no idea what that gibberish means (Thanks MS for your wonderfully and consistently cryptic error messages!)

So I thought I'd post here in the hope that maybe it is just my own stupidity that someone can point out....that maybe it is something so absurdly simple and I am just making it more complicated than it really is.

Anyone have any idea what the heck I did wrong?

<EDIT>
Nevrmind. I finally did the one thing I *SHOULD* have done to begin with. I uninstalled IIS and then reinstalled it. It works now.
Sheesh!
</EDIT>

[dudzz]

Hi,

This is a silly suggestion but lets try to see if the IIS from WinXP was installed successfully or not..

OK, this is it, Try to uninstall the IIS...

Then.. Install again...

Well, I guess this would not take 15 minutes... depending on the speed of your machine...

If you will get the same error... well.. probably try to look at your code...

[bobo]

When I installed that on my XP some of the ASP, mainly the simple smaller bits worked and some of it didn't (the important bits, damn it).

But it started to do strange things to my computer and caused loads of errors so I had to uninstall it, just means i have to work online thats all.

[Frank]

Apparently it is quite easy to corrupt the metabase or the Microsoft Management Control thingy, and according to my research, this is what caused my troubles. Simply uninstalling and reinstalling IIS is the easiest way to fix it.

I viewed the page in Netscape 7 since it tends to be a little more helpful with it's error messages. The error NS gave me suggested I check the event log for more specific details. I checked the event log and found a specific error number. Doing a search for that error number led me to the resolution of the problem. I hadn't thought of the event log before running NS. The page I got from the search mentioned a corrupted metabase and suggested all of these ways to fix it, including reinstalling IIS. Since I am only running IIS locally so that I can develop and test ASP applications, doing this is no big deal.

Normally I would test my apps online but by doing it offline, if I make a severe mistake, I will only be crashing my computer and not Definative's server :}

[Terry]

Originally posted by Frank
if I make a severe mistake, I will only be crashing my computer and not Definative's server :}

:eek2: :D

[skriptkiddie]

haha

[Frank]

You have to love those unintentional infinite loops...

Get that a lot with WHILE...WEND and DO WHILE..LOOP stuff...

Or rather I should say, *I* get that a lot.

When I learned ASP I learned the two most important things I could ever learn early on; 1) Host admins like it when you always set your objects = nothing, and 2) Host admins NEVER like it when you send the server into an infinite loop at 2 AM on a Sunday morning ;}