WWW publishing and localhost not working

WinXP Pro SP2

WWW publishing is not working. Originally, I had three hard drives on
my computer. Drive 1 was partitioned as C and E. Suddenly, I started
having problems reading the drive, so I used a data recovery program,
got the website files off of the drive(s) and reformatted them. I ran
tests on the drives and they were working fine - so I put the files back
in their original directories.

When I originally opened up IIS, all the virtual websites had red
question marks next to them. Trying to browse one of them from IIS, I
got a server too busy error. I rebooted, and they looked fine, but when
I tried to browse them, I got a cannot find server message.

I have tried using localhost, 127.0.0.1, my computer name, and nothing.

I went back to IIS, and noticed the default web site was stopped. I
started it, opened up the browser, and tried to load a page. I could
see that the page was trying to load, because I could see the document
size (this is in Opera, but NO browsers will open any pages). It never
finished loading.

So, I went to services and tried to restart WWW publishing. I got a
message about WWW not being able to stop in a timely manner. Then I
tried to stop IIS itself. WWW depends on IIS, so it tried again to stop
WWW, but got the same message again.

Any thoughts? Reinstall windows?

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Adrienne
Wed Apr 30 03:04:16 CDT 2008

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com>
writing in news:Xns9A902D65CDD7arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121:

> WinXP Pro SP2
>

I also tried disabling my firewall, and have also checked the hosts file.
I have no viruses and am up to date on Windows updates.


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Alexander
Wed Apr 30 15:37:54 CDT 2008

On Apr 30, 4:04=A0am, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com>=

> writing innews:Xns9A902D65CDD7arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121:
>
> > WinXP Pro SP2
>
> I also tried disabling my firewall, and have also checked the hosts file. =
=A0
> I have no viruses and am up to date on Windows updates.
>
> --
> Adrienne Boswell at Home
> Arbpen Web Site Design Serviceshttp://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
> Please respond to the group so others can share

Just restoring the directories doesn't ensure the sites will run. The
original IIS configuration also needs to be restored. I remove the
directories and see If IIS works. Then re add them to IIS one at a
time, testing each one as you go.

Adrienne
Wed Apr 30 20:39:03 CDT 2008

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Alexander Higgins
<alexhiggins732@hotmail.com> writing in
news:2cda6011-581f-42b6-986c-0fbb37bb2a86@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:

> On Apr 30, 4:04 am, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Adrienne Boswell
>> <arb...@yahoo.com>
>
>> writing innews:Xns9A902D65CDD7arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121:
>>
>> > WinXP Pro SP2
>>
>> I also tried disabling my firewall, and have also checked the hosts
>> file.
>  
>> I have no viruses and am up to date on Windows updates.
>>
>
> Just restoring the directories doesn't ensure the sites will run. The
> original IIS configuration also needs to be restored. I remove the
> directories and see If IIS works. Then re add them to IIS one at a
> time, testing each one as you go.
>

I already did that, still no joy. As I said in my original post, if the
default web site is started, then the site will TRY to load, for a very,
very long time (aka forever). I cannot restart WWW publishing because
it does not stop in a timely manner.

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David
Thu May 01 03:03:13 CDT 2008

On Apr 30, 6:39=A0pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Alexander Higgins
> <alexhiggins...@hotmail.com> writing innews:2cda6011-581f-42b6-986c-0fbb37=
bb2a86@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Apr 30, 4:04=A0am, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Adrienne Boswell
> >> <arb...@yahoo.com>
>
> >> writing innews:Xns9A902D65CDD7arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121:
>
> >> > WinXP Pro SP2
>
> >> I also tried disabling my firewall, and have also checked the hosts
> >> file.
> > =A0
> >> I have no viruses and am up to date on Windows updates.
>
> > Just restoring the directories doesn't ensure the sites will run. =A0The=

> > original IIS configuration also needs to be restored. =A0I remove the
> > directories and see If IIS works. =A0Then re add them to IIS one at a
> > time, testing each one as you go.
>
> I already did that, still no joy. =A0As I said in my original post, if the=

> default web site is started, then the site will TRY to load, for a very,
> very long time (aka forever). =A0I cannot restart WWW publishing because
> it does not stop in a timely manner.
>
> --
> Adrienne Boswell at Home
> Arbpen Web Site Design Serviceshttp://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
> Please respond to the group so others can share- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


It is not clear to me what you backed up, what you reformatted, and
what you restored. If you reformatted drive 1, then how did you
"restore" without reinstalling the OS.

If you had corruption on the C:/E: drive and you backed everything up,
restoring the backup after a reformat of drive 1 simply persists any
original file corruption, which may be what is preventing IIS from
working. Or the corruption may have damaged data files on the website
needed by IIS to service the website. You simply do not know, and that
is the nature of data corruption.

With data corruption of a system partition resulting from hardware
failure, I would recommend reinstalling the OS on a new hard drive
along with re-installing any additional software and configuration. If
the data corruption was on a data partition, it would be ok to drop in
a new hard drive whose data comes from an older backup.

I would NEVER reuse data that was backed up from a known corrupted
hard drive because you have no way to ensure that the data being
reused is not corrupted.

Yes, this is Draconian, but it teaches the value of backups and
versioning. Data corruption is very insidious -- it could lie dormant
for years until the corrupt data causes something else, and it will
seem just as random. Or it can happen immediately and cause random
crash/hang behavior that is not otherwise explainable.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//

Adrienne
Fri May 02 09:21:14 CDT 2008

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed David Wang <w3.4you@gmail.com>
writing in
news:f706e444-ae01-4d86-baca-1e9c7465ab81@z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

> On Apr 30, 6:39 pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Alexander Higgins
>> <alexhiggins...@hotmail.com> writing
>> innews:2cda6011-581f-42b6-986c-0fbb37
> bb2a86@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Apr 30, 4:04 am, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Adrienne Boswell
>> >> <arb...@yahoo.com>
>>
>> >> writing innews:Xns9A902D65CDD7arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121:
>>
>> >> > WinXP Pro SP2
>>
>> >> I also tried disabling my firewall, and have also checked the
>> >> hosts file.
>> >  
>> >> I have no viruses and am up to date on Windows updates.
>>
>> > Just restoring the directories doesn't ensure the sites will run.
>> >  The
>
>> > original IIS configuration also needs to be restored.  I remove the
>> > directories and see If IIS works.  Then re add them to IIS one at a
>> > time, testing each one as you go.
>>
>> I already did that, still no joy.  As I said in my original post, if
>> the
>
>> default web site is started, then the site will TRY to load, for a
>> very, very long time (aka forever).  I cannot restart WWW publishing
>> because it does not stop in a timely manner.
>>
>> --
>> Adrienne Boswell at Home
>> Arbpen Web Site Design Serviceshttp://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
>> Please respond to the group so others can share- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>
> It is not clear to me what you backed up, what you reformatted, and
> what you restored. If you reformatted drive 1, then how did you
> "restore" without reinstalling the OS.

The OS is on K, a new hard drive. The drives that failed were C and D.
The files that were restored were mostly plain text files and images.

>
> If you had corruption on the C:/E: drive and you backed everything up,
> restoring the backup after a reformat of drive 1 simply persists any
> original file corruption, which may be what is preventing IIS from
> working. Or the corruption may have damaged data files on the website
> needed by IIS to service the website. You simply do not know, and that
> is the nature of data corruption.

I can open, read, write and save to the restored files without any
problem.

>
> With data corruption of a system partition resulting from hardware
> failure, I would recommend reinstalling the OS on a new hard drive
> along with re-installing any additional software and configuration. If
> the data corruption was on a data partition, it would be ok to drop in
> a new hard drive whose data comes from an older backup.

I am thinking I should reinstall the OS on K?

>
> I would NEVER reuse data that was backed up from a known corrupted
> hard drive because you have no way to ensure that the data being
> reused is not corrupted.
>
> Yes, this is Draconian, but it teaches the value of backups and
> versioning. Data corruption is very insidious -- it could lie dormant
> for years until the corrupt data causes something else, and it will
> seem just as random. Or it can happen immediately and cause random
> crash/hang behavior that is not otherwise explainable.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>



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David
Fri May 02 16:22:12 CDT 2008

Are drive letters C, D, and K pointing to drive partitions from the
same physical hard drive or different hard drives


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//



On May 2, 7:21=A0am, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed David Wang <w3.4...@gmail.com>
> writing innews:f706e444-ae01-4d86-baca-1e9c7465ab81@z24g2000prf.googlegrou=
ps.com:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Apr 30, 6:39=A0pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Alexander Higgins
> >> <alexhiggins...@hotmail.com> writing
> >> innews:2cda6011-581f-42b6-986c-0fbb37
> > bb2...@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:
>
> >> > On Apr 30, 4:04=A0am, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> >> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Adrienne Boswell
> >> >> <arb...@yahoo.com>
>
> >> >> writing innews:Xns9A902D65CDD7arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121:
>
> >> >> > WinXP Pro SP2
>
> >> >> I also tried disabling my firewall, and have also checked the
> >> >> hosts file.
> >> > =A0
> >> >> I have no viruses and am up to date on Windows updates.
>
> >> > Just restoring the directories doesn't ensure the sites will run.
> >> > =A0The
>
> >> > original IIS configuration also needs to be restored. =A0I remove the=

> >> > directories and see If IIS works. =A0Then re add them to IIS one at a=

> >> > time, testing each one as you go.
>
> >> I already did that, still no joy. =A0As I said in my original post, if
> >> the
>
> >> default web site is started, then the site will TRY to load, for a
> >> very, very long time (aka forever). =A0I cannot restart WWW publishing
> >> because it does not stop in a timely manner.
>
> >> --
> >> Adrienne Boswell at Home
> >> Arbpen Web Site Design Serviceshttp://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
> >> Please respond to the group so others can share- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > It is not clear to me what you backed up, what you reformatted, and
> > what you restored. If you reformatted drive 1, then how did you
> > "restore" without reinstalling the OS.
>
> The OS is on K, a new hard drive. =A0The drives that failed were C and D. =
=A0
> The files that were restored were mostly plain text files and images.
>
>
>
> > If you had corruption on the C:/E: drive and you backed everything up,
> > restoring the backup after a reformat of drive 1 simply persists any
> > original file corruption, which may be what is preventing IIS from
> > working. Or the corruption may have damaged data files on the website
> > needed by IIS to service the website. You simply do not know, and that
> > is the nature of data corruption.
>
> I can open, read, write and save to the restored files without any
> problem.
>
>
>
> > With data corruption of a system partition resulting from hardware
> > failure, I would recommend reinstalling the OS on a new hard drive
> > along with re-installing any additional software and configuration. If
> > the data corruption was on a data partition, it would be ok to drop in
> > a new hard drive whose data comes from an older backup.
>
> I am thinking I should reinstall the OS on K?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > I would NEVER reuse data that was backed up from a known corrupted
> > hard drive because you have no way to ensure that the data being
> > reused is not corrupted.
>
> > Yes, this is Draconian, but it teaches the value of backups and
> > versioning. Data corruption is very insidious -- it could lie dormant
> > for years until the corrupt data causes something else, and it will
> > seem just as random. Or it can happen immediately and cause random
> > crash/hang behavior that is not otherwise explainable.
>
> > //David
> >http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> >http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> > //
>
> --
> Adrienne Boswell at Home
> Arbpen Web Site Design Serviceshttp://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
> Please respond to the group so others can share- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Adrienne
Sat May 03 08:48:37 CDT 2008

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed David Wang <w3.4you@gmail.com>
writing in
news:cc26e098-2b01-4ba2-9aaf-80f0bf0199d9@w5g2000prd.googlegroups.com:

> Are drive letters C, D, and K pointing to drive partitions from the
> same physical hard drive or different hard drives
>
>

I have three physical drives: C/D, K and M. The OS is on K, and it is
the newest drive.

>
>
> On May 2, 7:21 am, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed David Wang <w3.4...@gmail.com>
>> writing
>> innews:f706e444-ae01-4d86-baca-1e9c7465ab81@z24g2000prf.googlegrou
> ps.com:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Apr 30, 6:39 pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Alexander Higgins
>> >> <alexhiggins...@hotmail.com> writing
>> >> innews:2cda6011-581f-42b6-986c-0fbb37
>> > bb2...@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:
>>
>> >> > On Apr 30, 4:04 am, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> >> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Adrienne Boswell
>> >> >> <arb...@yahoo.com>
>>
>> >> >> writing innews:Xns9A902D65CDD7arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121:
>>
>> >> >> > WinXP Pro SP2
>>
>> >> >> I also tried disabling my firewall, and have also checked the
>> >> >> hosts file.
>> >> >  
>> >> >> I have no viruses and am up to date on Windows updates.
>>
>> >> > Just restoring the directories doesn't ensure the sites will
>> >> > run.  The
>>
>> >> > original IIS configuration also needs to be restored.  I remove
>> >> > the
>
>> >> > directories and see If IIS works.  Then re add them to IIS one
>> >> > at a
>
>> >> > time, testing each one as you go.
>>
>> >> I already did that, still no joy.  As I said in my original post,
>> >> if the
>>
>> >> default web site is started, then the site will TRY to load, for a
>> >> very, very long time (aka forever).  I cannot restart WWW
>> >> publishing because it does not stop in a timely manner.
>>
>> >> --
>> >> Adrienne Boswell at Home
>> >> Arbpen Web Site Design Serviceshttp://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
>> >> Please respond to the group so others can share- Hide quoted text
>> >> -
>>
>> >> - Show quoted text -
>>
>> > It is not clear to me what you backed up, what you reformatted, and
>> > what you restored. If you reformatted drive 1, then how did you
>> > "restore" without reinstalling the OS.
>>
>> The OS is on K, a new hard drive.  The drives that failed were C and
>> D.
>  
>> The files that were restored were mostly plain text files and images.
>>
>>
>>
>> > If you had corruption on the C:/E: drive and you backed everything
>> > up, restoring the backup after a reformat of drive 1 simply
>> > persists any original file corruption, which may be what is
>> > preventing IIS from working. Or the corruption may have damaged
>> > data files on the website needed by IIS to service the website. You
>> > simply do not know, and that is the nature of data corruption.
>>
>> I can open, read, write and save to the restored files without any
>> problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> > With data corruption of a system partition resulting from hardware
>> > failure, I would recommend reinstalling the OS on a new hard drive
>> > along with re-installing any additional software and configuration.
>> > If the data corruption was on a data partition, it would be ok to
>> > drop in a new hard drive whose data comes from an older backup.
>>
>> I am thinking I should reinstall the OS on K?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > I would NEVER reuse data that was backed up from a known corrupted
>> > hard drive because you have no way to ensure that the data being
>> > reused is not corrupted.
>>
>> > Yes, this is Draconian, but it teaches the value of backups and
>> > versioning. Data corruption is very insidious -- it could lie
>> > dormant for years until the corrupt data causes something else, and
>> > it will seem just as random. Or it can happen immediately and cause
>> > random crash/hang behavior that is not otherwise explainable.
>>
>> > //David
>> >http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
>> >http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
>> > //
>>
>> --
>> Adrienne Boswell at Home
>> Arbpen Web Site Design Serviceshttp://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
>> Please respond to the group so others can share- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>



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Alexander
Sat May 03 17:26:52 CDT 2008


If you can not get the www service to stop then do this.

start--> run--> services.msc
scroll down to the world wide web publishing service --> right click --
> properties. In the startup type choose disabled, and click apply.
Restart the computer.

when the computer restarts, the world wide web publishing service will
not be restarted. Go to the home directory of your default website
and move all of the files to another directory. Reinstall IIS. then
try starting the service with the home directory empty. If it starts,
stop it, and restore the files /directories one at a time.

Also, look into IIS diagnostic tools from microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9BFA49BC-376B-4A54-95AA-73C9156706E7&displaylang=en

Also do you have other services running in IIS? FTP sites, NNTP
services, perhaps a custom cgi/isapi module or maybe PHP or ??...
maybe on of those is the culprit.