Archive : IIS

Server Application Unavailable

Posted on March 25, 2008 in: Error Messages, IIS|Post Comment

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Server Application Unavailable

The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable.  Please hit the “Refresh” button in your web browser to retry your request.

Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be found in the application event log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused this error to occur.

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Solution

Open Windows Explorer and  navigate to project folder

Right Click > Properties > Security Tab

Make sure following users have atleast READ access to the folder (and subfolder)
1. ASPNET
2. IUSR_{machinename}
3. IIS_WPG
Now test your url. :)

Create/Manage Multiple Websites in IIS on Windows 2000 / XP

Posted on September 4, 2007 in: Asp.Net, IIS, Tips and Tricks|Post Comment

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On Windows 2000/XP Professional only one website can be created in IIS. (i.e) default website.

If you have some requirement for testing multiple websites on same development box its not possible with IIS alone.

FREE IIS Management tool

JetStat has a tool to accomplish the above mentioned task. “IISAdmin”

 

It has some cool features like

- Create and Manage as many local IIS web sites.
- Install and configure asp scripts on local web sites
- Gives quick access to home folder of the website
- Enabling advanced features on creation of new web site
- Quick access to IIS Management Console
- Automatically configures database folder permissions
- Full support Windows 2000/XP (IIS 5.0, 5.1, 6.0)
- Easy of use and flexible

The application is FREE and it doesn’t occupy much space.

Download from here.