IIS stopped working.

Here's an odd one I guess,

For some reason, IIS stopped working on my machine W2K Pro, SP4.

I first noticed a problem when I tried to create a new VS2003 Web project
and was told that IIS was not running, so I went to Internet Services
manager
and nothing happened.

I tried a couple of times and still nothing happened.
I then thought to restart the machine, and was then prompted to save the
console settings, one per IIS start try...

After reboot the same situation was in place.

After searching the web for some answer I decided to re-install IIS.
Unfortunately I was not even able to uninstall it.

So I disabled a few services w3scv, IISadmin, rebooted and the uninstall
finally succeeded.

I then tried to install it and somewhere near the end it just got hung.

I believe this is because it's trying to start the w3svc (i.e. probably my
original problem), but hat does not work.
Trying to do it manually i.e. running 'net start w3svc' return an error
like the service cannot be started.
Running IISreset /start also sometimes, depending on what I have tweaked,
comes back saying that the service did not respond in a timely fashion, or
saying that w3svc could not be started.

I am running Norton Internet Security, but I seem to get the same result
whether it's on or off.

One last thing that recently changed is my ISP, (as well as house, etc..)
surely NTL does not cause IIS to not work.
One thing that seem strange to me is that whenever I download my e-mail
using NTL the connection says it's displaying 'local network'. (probably
unrelated).

Anyway any help is appreciated.

hal
Fri Jul 16 12:04:03 CDT 2004

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:38:27 +0100, "Fred" <fredbp10@tiscali.co.uk>
wrote:

>Here's an odd one I guess,
>
>For some reason, IIS stopped working on my machine W2K Pro, SP4.
>
>I first noticed a problem when I tried to create a new VS2003 Web project
>and was told that IIS was not running, so I went to Internet Services
>manager
>and nothing happened.
>
>I tried a couple of times and still nothing happened.
>I then thought to restart the machine, and was then prompted to save the
>console settings, one per IIS start try...
>
>After reboot the same situation was in place.
>
>After searching the web for some answer I decided to re-install IIS.
>Unfortunately I was not even able to uninstall it.
>
>So I disabled a few services w3scv, IISadmin, rebooted and the uninstall
>finally succeeded.
>
>I then tried to install it and somewhere near the end it just got hung.
>
>I believe this is because it's trying to start the w3svc (i.e. probably my
>original problem), but hat does not work.
>Trying to do it manually i.e. running 'net start w3svc' return an error
>like the service cannot be started.

any errors in your system event log? anything along the lines of
"cannot bind to instance 1"? try 'telnet localhost 80', then do a
control-C to break out of the port and see if you have an http banner.
You running SSL? Is IIS set to listen on 443? If so, try telneting
to 443 also and see if you get a banner. If you should happen to get
a banner in German, you have a problem. That is a hack I recently
experienced, and it caused my IIS startup to fail. Also look in your
task manager and see if you have any weird processes running.

Hal

>Running IISreset /start also sometimes, depending on what I have tweaked,
>comes back saying that the service did not respond in a timely fashion, or
>saying that w3svc could not be started.
>
>I am running Norton Internet Security, but I seem to get the same result
>whether it's on or off.
>
>One last thing that recently changed is my ISP, (as well as house, etc..)
>surely NTL does not cause IIS to not work.
>One thing that seem strange to me is that whenever I download my e-mail
>using NTL the connection says it's displaying 'local network'. (probably
>unrelated).
>
>Anyway any help is appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

John
Sat Jul 17 13:19:13 CDT 2004

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:38:27 -0700, Fred wrote:
>=A0Here's an odd one I guess,
>
>
>=A0For some reason, IIS stopped working on my machine W2K Pro, SP4.
>
>
>=A0I first noticed a problem when I tried to create a new VS2003 Web
>=A0project and was told that IIS was not running, so I went to
>=A0Internet Services manager and nothing happened.
>
>=A0I tried a couple of times and still nothing happened.
>=A0I then thought to restart the machine, and was then prompted to
>=A0save the console settings, one per IIS start try...
>
>=A0After reboot the same situation was in place.
>
>
>=A0After searching the web for some answer I decided to re-install
>=A0IIS. Unfortunately I was not even able to uninstall it.
>
>=A0So I disabled a few services w3scv, IISadmin, rebooted and the
>=A0uninstall finally succeeded.
>
>=A0I then tried to install it and somewhere near the end it just got
>=A0hung.
>
>
>=A0I believe this is because it's trying to start the w3svc (i.e.
>=A0probably my original problem), but hat does not work.
>=A0Trying to do it manually i.e. running 'net start w3svc' return =A0an
>=A0error like the service cannot be started.
>=A0Running IISreset /start also sometimes, depending on what I have
>=A0tweaked, comes back saying that the service did not respond in a
>=A0timely fashion, or saying that w3svc could not be started.
>
>=A0I am running Norton Internet Security, but I seem to get the same
>=A0result whether it's on or off.
>
>=A0One last thing that recently changed is my ISP, (as well as house,
>=A0etc..) surely NTL does not cause IIS to not work.
>=A0One thing that seem strange to me is that whenever I download my e-
>=A0mail using NTL the connection says it's displaying 'local network'.
>=A0(probably unrelated).
>
>=A0Anyway any help is appreciated.



Sounds like if you look closely you will remember something else that=
changed on your server before IIS stopped running.

John Cesta

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