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ASP stops working

Asked by: CFDevHead

We are running a 2000 server with IIS5 and for some reason ASP just stops working and we stop and start the iis service it comes back up also it dies every half hour.

Any thoughts

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2005-05-11 at 09:10:56ID21420669
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Microsoft IIS Web Server

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Answers

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2005-05-11 at 09:15:37ID: 13979430


When you say stops working do you mean it starts showing 500 server errors?

Are there any Event Log Errors associated with this (such as DCOM errors)? Or ASP Processing Errors in the site's logs?

Chris

 

by: meverestPosted on 2005-05-11 at 09:42:37ID: 13979694

usually, this sort of behaviour is caused by either a wild loop in the asp code itself or a wayward com module.

check the IIS server logs to see if you can recognise any pattern of what scripts were being accessed at or shortly before the problem occurances.

cheers.

 

by: CFDevHeadPosted on 2005-05-11 at 10:03:04ID: 13979857

What happens is, I get a page cannot be display error.

 

by: meverestPosted on 2005-05-11 at 10:10:58ID: 13979923

oh,.....  that is probably not the usual thing then.

what is the error message and error number displayed?  have you had a look at the logfiles as suggested?

Cheers.

 

by: CFDevHeadPosted on 2005-05-11 at 14:19:12ID: 13982077

I am not sure where to go from here I checked the Event Log Errors and there is nothing in there related to IIS. Also There is about six web sites that run on the box we changed the application protection to High for one site and when the other sites stopped working that site was stll up.

I am lost and not sure what to.

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2005-05-11 at 14:22:36ID: 13982106


You need to head to the logs for IIS. By default they're under %systemroot%\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 - although they can be put somewhere else by changing a setting in the properties of the website.

That should show you exactly what is happening to every request, including 404 and 500 error messages.

Is it 404 Page Not Found you're getting? Or something else?

 

by: CFDevHeadPosted on 2005-05-11 at 14:24:37ID: 13982115

I get a page cannot be displayed.

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2005-05-11 at 14:28:10ID: 13982143


Yes, but there are multiple errors associated with page cannot be displayed - that on it's own is not enough to figure out why it's not working unless the page really isn't there.

If these aren't displayed on the page itself they will be in the logs.

For instance, what's the page type? Plain HTML? ASP?

Which page? The default index? a specific page? all pages?

Is there more than one site hosted on the server or is this the only one?

 

by: meverestPosted on 2005-05-11 at 17:59:06ID: 13983216

Yes, i concur - we really do need to see some log file snippets.

Also, i suggest that you set application protection to high for all web sites to see if the problem is affecting just a single web or more than one.

Cheers.

 

by: CFDevHeadPosted on 2005-05-12 at 12:41:24ID: 13990237

sorry I haven't got back to this question but I am debugging the heck out of this server. I found where the server crashes it crashes when the asp page does this
after the Scripting.FileSystemObject has been created and it trys to read a file if just hangs now I have disabled the virus protection so I know its not that.

any ideas.

 

by: meverestPosted on 2005-05-12 at 17:00:01ID: 13992212

that gets us a little closer but not yet so simple unfortunately :(

must be some kind of file lock - if it were a permissions thing, it would throw an error.  maybe something else has the file open already?  check the script/s to make sure that a previous access to that file closes it properly.

cheers.

 

by: CFDevHeadPosted on 2005-05-12 at 17:12:37ID: 13992259

actually i found the problem I needed to reinstall windows scripting.

 

by: meverestPosted on 2005-05-12 at 17:20:39ID: 13992285

!! well then - I wonder why that made a difference?  but who cares, "if it works, don't argue" ;-)

Cheers.

 

by: NeilTPosted on 2005-05-13 at 13:26:23ID: 13999382

for future readers of this post if a reinstall of WS fails try altering the recycling of the application pools, this worked for me and gave me longer to find the cause - not closing / setting to nothing Server.CreateObject("SMTPsvg.Mailer")'s

Neil

 

by: CFDevHeadPosted on 2005-05-13 at 13:29:21ID: 13999407

since no one answered this question I am going to split the points because I don't want to close. Does anyone have any problems with this?

 

by: NeilTPosted on 2005-05-31 at 15:16:45ID: 14117351

no probs, cheers for the points!
Neil

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