I followed the instructions for geting my MVC application to run under IIS 5. For the most part, the site is working. However, intermittently I am seeing error 403 in my web logs. On a page
with several images, some of them show up while others do not. Upon refreshing the page, some images that were not visible previously become visible, while images that had previously been visible no longer display. Sometimes it's the css that won't load
and sometimes it's the entire page itself with a message stating "There
are too many people accessing the Web site at this time."
I had exactly the same issue in a QA environment where testers were testing the website (Forms based web application + Windows XP + IIS 5.1). As the error says, there are too many users connected to the website. Keep in mind that Windows XP has a limitation
of 10 connections by design. If the website hosts in addition web services these will count as other connections. In my case each user used 3 connections (2 web services + 1 for pages) per session. Therefore when 4 users were accessing the website some aspx
pages were not rendered or CSS not applied to them.
I followed this idea and it worked perfectly for me http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu/archive/2003/10/10/31476.aspx
TheSneak
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Intermittent 403 error on IIS 5
Jun 19, 2009 08:27 PM|LINK
I followed the instructions for geting my MVC application to run under IIS 5. For the most part, the site is working. However, intermittently I am seeing error 403 in my web logs. On a page with several images, some of them show up while others do not. Upon refreshing the page, some images that were not visible previously become visible, while images that had previously been visible no longer display. Sometimes it's the css that won't load and sometimes it's the entire page itself with a message stating "There are too many people accessing the Web site at this time."
My web server is IIS 5.0 on Windows XP Pro
Here are sample lines from the web logs:
192.168.1.1 - - [19/Jun/2009:14:21:37 -0500] "GET /AppName/Content/StoneFace_Thumb.png HTTP/1.1" 403 4219
192.168.1.1 - - [19/Jun/2009:14:21:46 -0500] "GET /AppName/Index.mvc?page=0 HTTP/1.1" 403 4219
iis5 mvc 403
Radu Alexand...
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Re: Intermittent 403 error on IIS 5
Nov 29, 2012 05:55 PM|LINK
I had exactly the same issue in a QA environment where testers were testing the website (Forms based web application + Windows XP + IIS 5.1). As the error says, there are too many users connected to the website. Keep in mind that Windows XP has a limitation of 10 connections by design. If the website hosts in addition web services these will count as other connections. In my case each user used 3 connections (2 web services + 1 for pages) per session. Therefore when 4 users were accessing the website some aspx pages were not rendered or CSS not applied to them.
I followed this idea and it worked perfectly for me http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu/archive/2003/10/10/31476.aspx