Server Application Unavailable

[wASP]

Hi,

I was trying to test a webpage with IE6, and I got hit with the following display:
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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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My OS is Win 2000 SP4.

I've got IIS installed, along with the .NET framework.

I don't see anything in the way of the application event log in IIS
- so I'm probably looking in the wrong place.

Can anyone give me any idea as to what is the cause of this?

Thanks in advance.

- wASP

 

[Craig Deelsnyder]

Hi,

I was trying to test a webpage with IE6, and I got hit with the
following display:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

My OS is Win 2000 SP4.

I've got IIS installed, along with the .NET framework.

I don't see anything in the way of the application event log in IIS
- so I'm probably looking in the wrong place.

Can anyone give me any idea as to what is the cause of this?

Thanks in advance.

- wASP

The event log they're talking about is in the Event Viewer of Windows.
It's under Administrative Tools in your control panel. Hopefully you have
access.

Otherwise I would check the global.asax and web.config of your
application. In my experience these 2 can cause issues where it looks
like the application is down in some way. An invalid web.config (bad XML,
invalid sections), or global.asax is failing (missing the compiled class
code for it, throwing exception), causing the application to not start
properly.

Or ASP.NET is not setup properly to start with...which is why hopefully
you can see the event log...

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Those are good suggestions.

*Additionally*, check to see if the server is running
more than one version of the .Net Framework.

If it is, at the very minimum, all the applications which belong
to each of the .Net versions need to run in different processes.



Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
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