Installation and Setup

Re: Server Application Unavailable

cskartha — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:41:46 GMT

This worked for me even in .Net Framework 2. I used Aspnet_regiis.exe and the reset IIS and voila it worked...

Thanx...

Re: Server Application Unavailable

RDHope — Mon, 10 May 2004 18:40:07 GMT

I did this and IIS will no longer start. I am running XP Pro as well...could this be related to the domain controller issue?

Re: Server Application Unavailable

parmarkanaiya — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:17:25 GMT

Open machine.config and fine username="machine" and alter it to username="SYSTEM". Beware SYSTEM is high priviledged user.

Re: Server Application Unavailable

sdnorden — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:31:30 GMT

Hello,

I am not sure if you have solved your problem. But, I will share an experience I have had trying to get my web server to host .aspx web pages. After fighting with this problem for days I finally figured out my particular problem. I was getting application unavailable errors and if did not matter what I did to the permissions of the NTFS structure or how many times I ran the aspnet_regiis utility the results where the same.

It turned out that my edition of VS.net installed the 1.0 version of framework on my Windows XP pro system. For some reason the 1.0 version of framework behaves differently on XP with IIS 5.1 than it does on Windows 2000 Advanced server. I have the same framework on both and the behaviors were night and day. To fix I uninstalled the 1.0 framework and installed the 1.1 framework and ran the aspnet_regiis utility.

Problem solved....It seems this is one possible solution to a problem that could have many causes. That is one thing about Microsoft I have found to be a truism. When it works it is pretty cool but when it breaks it BREAKS! Hope this helps someone. It took me long enough to figure it out and I have not seen any reference in the forum on this issue.

Re: Server Application Unavailable

i888 — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:55:06 GMT

I got the same problem with my win xp professional edition. Using Homer's instruction, I fixed it by changing userName="machine" to userName="SYSTEM" in the machine.config file within the <processmodel> tag.

Re: Server Application Unavailable

nolazabal — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:28:26 GMT

Here is somthing that may help as well

http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=40434

the security thing on the folders has to be check as well

ty

Re: Server Application Unavailable

RedSunBeer — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:11:24 GMT

I was getting this error message "Server Application Unavailable" while trying to redirect my page [Response.Redirect="/filename";]. The reason being that I was using the virtual path which was pointing to my default web folder and not to my application web folder. To correct the error I used the relative file path [Response.Redirect="../filename";].

Re: Server Application Unavailable

auschucky — Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:33:46 GMT

Hey,
I'm just wondering if this actually worked for anyone or if it only worked on my system.

Regards

Auschucky

Re: Server Application Unavailable

auschucky — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 04:13:19 GMT

Hi Guys,

Here's a solution that worked for me, I don't know if it'll work for you, tell me how you go.

For this explanation lets assume that the files are in C:\Inetpub\Website

Firstly I reset the security permissions on the files and the folders in the C:\Inetpub\Website directory (instructions below):

Go into the webpages root directory (C:\Inetpub\Website) in explorer, select all the files (not folders), right click then click properties and click on the security tab. It may come up with a message saying that "The permissions can't be displayed ...", if it does click "Yes". Click "Ok", to exit out of the file dialog box. Next select all the folders (not files) and do the same steps as the files.

Secondly I added the user "Everyone" to have full permissions on the root folder of the website (instructions below):
In explorer do a right click on the webpage root directory (C:\Inetpub\Website) and click on properties, then click the security tab, click the add button, select the everyone user and click ok, then check all the boxes, and click ok to exit the dialog box.

At this stage the "Server application unavailable" error went away, but the website may be insecure, so I decided to tighten the security which is the second last step. (instructions below)

Open Internet Services Manager, select the website, and do a right click on the name, select all tasks, "Check server extensions 2002", this will open up an internet exploerer window, login using the username and password you use to adminster the site, (or the administrator account for windows 2000), click OK to run the tests, and you should notice that the "Tighten security" area has an item. Check the checkbox that says "Fix this problem" and then click "submit".

Finally, for some reason when you tighten the security, it removes the ASPNet user from the directory permissions, so you need to add the user back in. (instructions below)

In explorer do a right click on the webpage root directory (C:\Inetpub\Website) and click on properties, then click the security tab, click the add button, select the aspnet user and click ok, then check "List folder contents", and "Read" boxes, and click ok to exit the dialog box.

These steps solved the Server Application Unavailable problem for me. I hope it does the same for you, as it isn't a very well documented error.

Regards

Auschucky

Re: Server Application Unavailable

trouble_creator — Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:08:20 GMT

I have the same problem and i've tried almost everything.
When I let the setup confige the vroot and database I get this in the log.txt;

8:56:27 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Checking system requirements]
8:56:27 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Pass] Detected a local instance of SQL Server.
8:56:27 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Pass] Determined SQL Server version (8.00.194).
8:56:27 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Pass] Detected .NET Framework.
8:56:27 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Pass] Detected Internet Information Server (IIS).
8:56:28 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Begin Sample Configuration]
8:56:29 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Pass] Created IIS virtual directory.: AspNetForums
8:56:29 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Pass] Determined SQL Server version (8.00.194).
8:56:30 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Fail] Could not add ASPNET user to SQL Server.
Windows NT user or group 'Computername\ASPNET' not found. Check the name again.
8:56:30 PM Friday, December 20, 2002: [Done]

I've checked the name 'ASPNET' and it has all the needed rights in the Domain security,Domain controller security policy and the Local security policy.
I've also tried the way discribed here; http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315158 and it also doesn't work. :(

I'm running on MS Windows 2000 server with IIS 5.0 (Frontpage extensions),
MS .NET framework v1.0.3705 and SQL server version 8.0

Re: Server Application Unavailable

pjlove — Fri, 20 Dec 2002 02:04:50 GMT

I'm brand new to ASP, .Net, etc. I had the same problem with the "Server Application Unavailable" error. Not sure why it started. When I originally installed IIS, I had no problems. I think this started after one of the XP patches. Anyway, just wanted to say that changing username from machine to SYSTEM in machine.config worked for me.

Thanks!

Re: Server Application Unavailable (The fix)

auschucky — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:27:48 GMT

Hi guys,
Possible a new solution?

I had two web services, one that served aspx pages fine, the other that didn't - came up with that horrible error message.

There was one difference in terms of directory security. I went to the base directory of the site that wasn't working and added the 'Everyone' account will full permissions and the error message went away (now someone can tell me the security implications of this, but at least ur still using the ASPNet Account to access the website).

Hope this helps you guys!
It's a bugger of a problem

Regards

Auschucky

Re: Server Application Unavailable

veloce298 — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:59:30 GMT

This worked for me:

From http://www.able-consulting.com/dotnet/aspnet/aspnet_faq.htm
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IIS does not have the correct mapping for the ASPX file extension. This can happen if you install IIS after installing the .NET Framework, or if you uninstalled and reinstalled IIS.
To repair IIS mappings for ASP.NET, you can run the Aspnet_regiis.exe utility.
###

This file seems to be named differently in some cases.
Used with parameter "-i" reinstalls current version of aspx.

c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.0.3705\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

Re: Server Application Unavailable

sehasoylu — Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:39:27 GMT

I tried this but nothing has changed:(..what can i do else?

Re: Server Application Unavailable

Bakker — Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:53:25 GMT

Thats It, Thx's for the help changeing the username to "SYSTEM" and running iisreset.exe was all that need to be done. i just did a dcpromo on my win2000 server and asp.net stopped working, but now it's all good agen thx's.