wscript.shell does not execute .vbs

[AirYT]

Done a bunch of searching on this topic and i have come up with nothing.

I have a .vbs script that i wish to execute by calling an asp page.

i am working on a W2K server with IIS5.0 & SP4.

My stopwebsite.vbs file is as follows:

===
On Error Resume Next
fullPath = "IIS://Localhost/W3svc/57"
Set oServer = GetObject(fullPath)
If Err <> 0 Then
Display "Unable to open " & fullPath & "."
End If
oServer.Stop
If Err <> 0 Then
Display "Unable to stop web server " & fullPath & "."
End If

Sub Display(Msg)
' WScript.Echo Now & ". Error Code: " & Hex(Err) & " - " & Msg
End Sub

===

NOTE that display doesn't do anything

my stopwebsite.asp script is as follows:
===
<%
On Error Resume Next
Set objScriptShell = Server.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
strCommand = "cscript.exe //b d:\inetpub\websites\admin\stopwebsite.vbs"
intReturn = objScriptShell.Run( strCommand )
response.write( "Command returned: " & intReturn )
Set objScriptShell = Nothing

if err.number <> 0 then
response.write "<hr>Error detected: " & err.number & ": " &
err.Description & "<br/>"
response.end
End if
%>
===

Normally i get that the command has executed successfully (ie. i get a 0
returned).
however the script doesn't actually run.

NOTE: i can run the command ("cscript.exe //b
d:\inetpub\websites\admin\stopwebsite.vbs") from a command line when logged
in as administrator successfully
I can also simply double click on the vbs (which i assume is executed by
wscript) from file explorer and it works successfully.

Things i have tried & applied:
the asp script is running on it's own virtual website with anonymous access
disabled. As such i am logging in as administrator when prompted.
i have tried different user permissions on the asp script & the vbs script.
at this point, everyone has full access to both scripts. this did not seem
to help.

any ideas??

thanks in advance.
yt

PS -- when i was locking down my server, i removed the built-in iis
administration website and probably the files that go with it. is there a
way to restore that without removing & reinstalling iis?

 

[Mark J. McGinty]

Done a bunch of searching on this topic and i have come up with nothing.

I have a .vbs script that i wish to execute by calling an asp page.

i am working on a W2K server with IIS5.0 & SP4.

My stopwebsite.vbs file is as follows:

===
On Error Resume Next
fullPath = "IIS://Localhost/W3svc/57"
Set oServer = GetObject(fullPath)
If Err <> 0 Then
Display "Unable to open " & fullPath & "."
End If
oServer.Stop
If Err <> 0 Then
Display "Unable to stop web server " & fullPath & "."
End If

Sub Display(Msg)
' WScript.Echo Now & ". Error Code: " & Hex(Err) & " - " & Msg
End Sub

Why don't you just execute this script from ASP, i.e., replace the contents
of your stopwebsite.asp script, with what's in the .vbs file? That would be
a cut to the chase in my book.

I'm not sure specifically why what you have won't run, but my guess is that
it fails to create the WScript.Shell object. You should test Err.Number
immediately after a line you suspect may have caused the error, because
otherwise the Err object gets overwritten by the success of subsequent
lines.


-Mark