>I have a website that I run out of my house. The computer I run it on has Windows XP Pro and IIS 5.1. The web application is written in .NET. When I run the application from Visual Studio.net I get the message below. The questions I have about this message are after the message.
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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.
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>Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be found in the system event log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused this error to occur.
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>Questions
> 1. Where can I find the system event log? Is it under administration tools in the control panel?
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> 2. Has anyone else come across this before and how do I go about fixing it?
Ok. There are a ton of possibilities. You ASP.NET application could be timing out, it is never a good idea to run a website out of your home computer, unless you have bigger then a 1mb upstream. Second, there are server logs for IIS, one is in control panel and under Event log, also there are the log files. Inside of WinXP, in the Windows folder off of your C: check your system32/LogFiles, those are the access logs by default. You may be able to tell if your webserver is even receiving your request at all from those. Then, you have to narrow it down, is it a web server problem, an application or what. I would check to make sure IIS is running, binding to the default port and not having an problems. Next you may want to check your DNS, if your
www.mywebsite.com isn't pointing to your home IP address then it won't be able to find that application. You can know the difference between and DNS issue and a Web Server issue by going to http://localhost
that will tell you if your web server is even on, then go to
http://www.mywebsite.com or whatever the name of your website is, that will tell you if it a DNS issue. After that you can start to look at IIS configurations, and .NET related things.
I hope that helps.
Morgan
