Hi,

    In an interview i was asked
    How can u troubleshoot a website ?

    What is the probable answer ??????

 Thanx in advance

Many things in troubleshooting .

1. If website will down or not opening.

2. If some bugs generated.

3. If server crashed.

4. If spam or virus attaching your website.

there are hundreds of issue can occur with your website And then you will resolve it issue by issue. 

 I would Troubleshoot a website through IIS Manager. If its stopped, if it needs a different application pool, it it needs to be redirected to some other site, etc etc.

I dont think troubleshoot means fixing coding errors though.. 

From coding point of view, I will take help of Trace to find the error 

well incase your website s relying heavily on databases, then surely checking concurrency issues, simultaneous access become part of troubleshooting.

There are all kinds of things you can do to troubleshoot a web site. Generally, I end up doing some of these things when troubleshooting web sites:

Go to the site myself to recreate any error messages - or at least try to get a screenshot from the user getting the error

Rule out any network related issues by doing pings, nslookups, traceroutes and stuff like that

Check the Event Viewer on the server to see if there have been any errors associated with the web site

Check the IIS logs for HTTP errors (logparser is great for this)

Put traces in the code files for debugging purposes

Also when I make a web site, I usually include a function that emails me when any errors are generated - so I usually know about any errors before the users inform me of them (assuming that the site is still functional enough to send out an email)

Hi,

For more information, you can check these links:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032305162&CountryCode=US

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178643.aspx

Hope it helps.