server application unavailable

[Francesco Spegni]

hallo,

i'm going to ask a solution for a "classic" problem. actually i read a
lot about possible solutions to it but i was not able to solve it.

the "patient" is:
- a test server where i have "limited" power (alias, i cannot re-
install everything i want :-/)
- windows 2000 sp 4 w/ iis 5.0
- .net frameworks installed: 1.0, 1.1, 2.0
- a bunch of *working* webapplications associated w/ framework 1.1
- a web application which does not work associated w/ framework 2.0 (i
checked the associations with the ASPNETVersionSwitcher tool)

symptoms:
- when i load the not-working application via browser, i get the red
error message "Server Application Unavailable"
- i checked the Event Viewer, here is what it says:
1. aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 2620) stopped unexpectedly.
2. Failed to execute the request because the ASP.NET process identity
does not have read permissions to the global assembly cache. Error:
0x80004005 Unspecified error

what i did:
- i read these two articles telling how to set the permission for
<machinename>\ASPNET account:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=135969&SiteID=1
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;811320&x=9&y=9

still, after having set the permissions as the articles say, the
problem still remains.

do you have any other suggestions?

francesco

PS
all the guides i read say that after installing .net framework v2.0 it
should appear a tab titled "ASP.NET" in the iis web site property
page... that does not happen to me. is that normal?

 

[George Ter-Saakov]

Last time I had error like that ASP.NET did not have any permissions (I
think all it need is read) to the BIN folder of my application


George.

 

[Francesco Spegni]

thanks, but the user (<machine_name>/ASPNET) has access to the bin
directory :-/

 

[Guest]

I think you answered your own question. the ASPNET process cannot read the
GAC. So you need to find out how to grant the proper permissions.
Sounds like you've got a messed up installation. Also, make sure your 2.0
app(s) are running under their OWN application pool.
Peter

 

[Francesco Spegni]

I think you answered your own question. the ASPNET process cannot read the
GAC. So you need to find out how to grant the proper permissions.
Sounds like you've got a messed up installation. Also, make sure your 2.0
app(s) are running under their OWN application pool.
Peter

uhm,

i'm not an expert in iis but i think that application pools are
configurable for iis 6 or successive ones, while i'm using iis 5. am i
wrong? if i'm wrong, could you point me to some documentation about
that?

moreover: which files is the GAC made of, actually? just the ones in
%windir%\assembly? i'm asking you this because i've already checked
they are readable by ASPNET user.

thanks

francesco