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Very strange problems with IIS not updating my pages...???

Asked by: angelleye

This situation is making me pull my hair out more than anything.  I've neve been so confused.  

I'm using Dreamweaver on my XP Pro machine with IIS installed using localhost as a testing server...just like have for about 7 years now on various machines at various places of employment.

Right now, if I create a new file in DW and preview it in a browser it loads http://localhost/test.asp and displays exactly what I just typed out in DW...which was simply the word test.  Then, I change the word test to the "test again" in the page in DW, save,  and refresh the browser.  It still says test.  so then I close the broswser and open it again...same thing.  I try preview from within DW...still just says test.  I even try going into IIS and right clicking on the fil there and say browse, which loads it in IE...still just says test.

I double checked that my local web folder is set to the same folder as my web site in IIS and it is.  I open up the file in wordpad after saving it from DW and it says "test again" just like it should.  I cannot get it to update in IE no matter what I do, though.  I've emptied out all browser history and temp files, etc.  Still won't update.

Any page that I create brand new loads in a browser just fine, but then any change I make from that point on is not updating no matter what browser i try, no matter how i load it, no matter how many times i refresh, F5, Ctrl+F5, etc.  Nothing will change it!

Any ideas?  I've never had this problem and I don't even know how to begin troubleshooting.  Thanks!

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2007-04-12 at 12:55:01ID22508159
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Answers

 

by: mgfranzPosted on 2007-04-12 at 13:07:50ID: 18901175

The page is being stored in cache, there are ways to prevent this from happening by using code like this on the top of the page;

<%
Response.AddHeader "Pragma", "no-cache"
Response.AddHeader "cache-control", "no-store"
Response.ExpiresAbsolute = Now() -1
%>

 

by: angelleyePosted on 2007-04-12 at 13:32:42ID: 18901344

I just tried that with a new page and it didn't solve the problem.  New page created in DW called test2.asp with the word test2 inside it.  Also included your code here.  Previewed from DW and i see a page with test2 in it, just like i should.  Then I edit the page and preview again but it still says test2 and will not change no matter what I do.  I'm looking at the page opened up in wordpad right now and it clearly says "test has changed" but when I view that same file in IE through IIS it says what it did when it was first created.

 

by: mgfranzPosted on 2007-04-12 at 13:58:59ID: 18901550

Well just to let you know it's probably not a IIS issue but a browser issue, clear your browser cache and try again.  Can you post the test .asp page your having issues with please.

 

by: angelleyePosted on 2007-04-12 at 14:39:11ID: 18901854

Actually, it does seem to be an IIS issue.  I configured another machine and it's working just fine.

On this machine I tried IE, Firefox, Safari, Camino, and Opera.  I cleared cache and everything.  Also, I trieda gain with a basic html page.

<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
test
</body>
</html>

When I first created it it displayed the word test back to me just fine.  then I open up the file directly from the web directory with notepad, change it to "test again" and it will not update no matter what I try on this system.  Very strange.

 

by: kelvinwkwPosted on 2007-04-12 at 17:59:52ID: 18902792

what if you do it this way?

at the back of the url you add on this


 http://localhost/test.asp?checkCache=1

if it appear to be the same, i believe you are referring to wrong files.


Best Regards
Kelvin

 

by: mbalsamPosted on 2007-04-12 at 19:18:27ID: 18903005

Why are you creating an asp page?  This will require the file to get compiled....

First suggestion, put the file in its own directory and name it Default.htm

Next suggestion,  Cleaning cache does not always work.  Not sure why. But try this.

1.      Shutdown ie
2.      go into task list make sure all IE's are stopped.
3.      Shutdown the web server.
4.      Rename the file to another name xxxx.htm
5.      Start webserver
6.      Start ie and goto test.asp
7.      Make sure browser gets a 404 error
8.      rename the file from xxxx.htm to test.asp
9.      Load file again.

404 tells browser that file is no longer available and to invalidate it in cache.

Good luck

Mitch

 

by: Fuzzyfish1000Posted on 2007-04-13 at 02:41:11ID: 18904296

We've had this problem before, and it is IIS. For some odd reason, it just sometimes starts - and continues for a few days, then goes away of it's own accord. I've got to the point before, where I've had a VNC window open on the test server, with a stop / start on the  www service. Stopping and starting the web service (using 'Net Stop w3svc' and 'Net Start w3svc') forces IIS to re-serve the file, which is a pain-in-the-butt work-around, but it does work!

I think we did get to the bottom of it - there's an option under IIS under default website options for caching certain files-  I think we just set it to never cache asp files... Deleting the application pool had a similar effect I believe - might want to look at the app pool settings if you can't sort out the caching.

I think basically it was a Microsoft over-sight that never got sorted - I could believe it was by design if it was consistant - but like you said, I've worked on loads of different dev environments over 10+ years, and mostly, all are fine - just once every so often, this caching thing pops up.

 

by: angelleyePosted on 2007-04-13 at 09:16:17ID: 18906586

I just removed IIS and re-installed it and now it seems to be functioning properly again.  I'll always wonder what caused that, though.  

 

by: mgfranzPosted on 2007-04-15 at 08:37:34ID: 18913893

Delete the Q.

 

by: angelleyePosted on 2007-04-15 at 19:57:23ID: 18915646

When I click on the link through help to get to the forum where I'm suppose to post the request to delete the question it says "No Topic Area Specific" and I can't do anything...???

 

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by: Computer101Posted on 2008-03-15 at 22:41:17ID: 21135727

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by: renard8450Posted on 2008-03-31 at 15:31:32ID: 21249747

I'm having this exact same problem.

Just to  step back through...
I have cleared all caches with any client side browser. I have 3 different IIS servers running. The file write problem only exists with one of them. The identical re-build yields positive results of the other two.

The problem noted in this forum seems exactly my problem clear to the point where stopping and starting the web publishing service will result in updates to the file that I'm otherwise unable to write updates too. However when I un-install IIS and all things related to it (.NET & Service Packs) and then re-install the entire load of stuff I'm still stuck with the exact same error/behavior being that I can not write to an asp file. It seems the file will not update once the file is initially written.

I'm totally confused how to fix this one and any help would be awesome.

20120131-EE-VQP-002

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