I had a chat area in my (test) web site. The site was down because my DSL provider died. Now I have a new DSL provider (new IP address, new ISP, etc.).
Going to the chat area I can see the old posts, but when I try to post anything I get an error, and on the web server event log I see this:
Unable to read configuration information for Microsoft Internet Information Server
Microsoft's Support area has one article:
230776 - Err Msg: Unable to Read Configuration Information for Microsoft IIS
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q230/7/76.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=unable%20to%20access&rnk=7&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=FP2000
But tt is for the error occuring during an INSTALL, not during browsing.
I'm going to dig through this tonight, but any insight may be useful:
Q216705 - How to Set Permissions on a FrontPage Web on IIS
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/7/05.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=unable%20to%20access&rnk=4&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=FP2000
But that article is for specifying who has access from Front Page, not from the web browsing.
Running Front Page Server Extensions Administrator it asks me if I want "tighten security as much as possible".
I've answered yes to this at least once, but have no idea if it did anything.
Your help would be appreciated.
Dave
None of the last errors are going to cause problems. They are innocuous.
Ok, Lets start over.
First things first. Your IIS is jacked up. It shouldnt have all these problems. One last thing to check though. make sure the directory your web is in is shared. If not share it. If so continue on reading. So this is the best thing to do. Uninstall any frontpage junk you have. Including personal web server. I think that may be one problem. Then copy your web somwhere safe. Next delete all webs except the defaults set by IIS. Uninstall all server extensions from the default web if possible. What we are trying to do is get IIS back to its original config. If possible uninstall the hole thing and start from scratch. Once you have IIS reinstalled. You can install Frontpage. Do the custom install and do not install the Personal web server option. You do not need this. You really dont even need frontpage unless you plan to edit pages from the server side. If you need the extensions download them from microsoft and follow the instructions on what directory to put them in, if you need instructions let me know. After this is all done create a new web by clicking on the server name and selecting new web site. Make the home directory like this.
C:\webname\wwwroot
You will then need to share the wwwroot directory. Do not share the webname directory. This is where databases are stored etc... Once you are done setting up the web info. Install the frontpage extensions to it.
You may need to set some other IIS info depending on how you have your Domain set up.
Go ahead and try these things if you want. You can do them all or just a couple.
I think it would be best.
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