Re: Error message I don't understand (newbie Q)

From: Ken Schaefer (kenREMOVE_at_THISadOpenStatic.com)
Date: 03/20/04


Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:25:55 +1100

a) In your IIS Manager (Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Admin Tools ->
IIS Manager) you can define "Web Applications". This is the application that
the error is speaking of. By default, each website is a single application,
however you can optionally split parts of a website into separate
applications (so that a single website consists of a number of web
applications)

b) The IIS log file is recording a HTTP status of 500, which indicate
"Internel Server Error" which is consistent with the error message you are
seeing in your browser. IIS has received the request (hence the logged
request), but is unable to service it. IIS is saying that details of the
error have been logged to the Windows Event Log

c) The Windows Event Log is viewed using the Event Viewer. This is located
in the same Admin Tools folder that the IIS Manager is located in. Please
use it to browse the Event Log. If you see any glaring errors (usually
marked a red stop icon), post the event ID, source and description please.

Cheers
Ken

"Peter Morris" <nospam.ple@se> wrote in message
news:qxH6c.20846$xv1.467944485@news-text.cableinet.net...
: Hi folks, just learning ASP.Net programming in C#, working
: my way through some books on the subject. Being a newbie
: I'm not certain wether this is a problem with dotNET, IIS
: or security, so I'm posting this question to all the relevent groups.
:
: I'm currently working on the Security chapter. I've entered the
: example from the book using Windows authentication and
: Forms authentication. When I run the programs I get the following
: message in my browser:
:
: ===========================
: 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.
: ============================
:
: I don't understand this error message - WHICH web application
: is currently unavailable? The program I've just typed in? But it's
: there, how come its not available?
:
: Here's the logging information I get.
:
: #Fields: date time c-ip cs-username s-sitename s-computername s-ip s-port
: cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query sc-status sc-win32-status sc-bytes
: cs-bytes time-taken cs-version cs-host cs(User-Agent) cs(Cookie)
cs(Referer)
:
: 2004-03-19 18:35:45 ******* - W3SVC1 HOME ******* GET
: /Simple+Form+Login/Login.aspx - 500 0 846 243 2734 HTTP/1.1 localhost
: Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) - -
:
: (I've replaced my IP number with ****** just in case some hacker can use
: it to crack my computer, I'm not sure if that's possible but I dont want
to
: risk it)
:
: I can't see any indication of what the error is. Any ideas?
:
:



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