Hello,
We host several websites on a single server. The websites will go down, but server still responding to pings and everything looks fine when you remote desktop to it. I have reviewed the logs and found the following error under the system event log at a rate of multiple times a minute, beginning when the problem started, ending when the server was rebooted. When this happens, websites will not display until server is rebooted. Any ideas???
This is the error:
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 16
Date: 10/28/2009
Time: 8:02:24 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MY_WEB_SERVER_NAME
Description:
The script started from the URL '/coppermine/db_input.php'
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by: FirebarPosted on 2009-10-28 at 14:04:06ID: 25688308
A PHP script running on one of the web-sites (coppermine?) is killing the W3SVC, IIS. Restarting IIS will bring the sites back online without rebooting the server, but you have to find out why that script is bringing the process down in the first place.
The w3svc service can be set to restart after a failure, but that will only go so far. You can also write a simple script, and set it to run at a regular interval via scheduled task.
ex: net start w3svc