IIS 5.1 [RESOLVED - it was skype messing it up]

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  15 years ago

  by paulfp

  Paul Freeman-Powell

  Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  I've been trying to set up IIS to work on my new computer... however once installing it, I noticed that the default web site had the red "STOP" icon next to it, and when I tried to start it, I kept getting the error "Unexpected Error 0x8ffe2740 Occurred".
  

  
  A little Google researching led me to this page: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;816944 so I thought that maybe because of being connected to the internet via a router that was causing problems? So I set IIS to use port 85 instead, which lets me start the server fine with no errors.... except when I go to http://localhost I get a 404 error....
  

  
  (My home directory is D:\wwwroot and this is correctly set up in IIS...)
  

  
  Now i'm presuming my problem lies somewhere with my having selected port 85, as I did kinda pick that randomly as I don't know a huge amount about ports.......
  

  
  any help would be appreciated

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  15 years ago

  by Thushan Fernando

  Thushan Fernando

  Australia :: Melbourne, Australia

  Joined 19 years ago
  ah yes, another Skype user I presume?
  
  Skype by default (hmmm) uses 80 to listen for incoming calls, so yes your right in changing the port, maybe choose something totally random like 69 or 1984 etc that you know for sure isnt being used.
  
  now about the 404s, best thing to do is to enable "directory browsing" (Home Directory Tba) and make sure you get a file listing, if you do it just means that theres no default document specified in the file list, so you being a PHP guy you'd add default.php or index.php to the default document list (Documents Tab)
  
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  15 years ago

  by paulfp

  Paul Freeman-Powell

  Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  hey, thanks for that (silly skype)
  

  
  i do have default documents already set, and even if i specifiy complete URLs to files it still doesn't work i still get 'the page cannot be found' errors
  

  
  anything else I can check?

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  15 years ago

  by paulfp

  Paul Freeman-Powell

  Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  sorted it - got rid of skype (hardly use anyway) and reinstalled IIS

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  15 years ago

  by Thushan Fernando

  Thushan Fernando

  Australia :: Melbourne, Australia

  Joined 19 years ago

  ah cool. sorry df replies dont seem to come to my inbox anymore... might be the filtering rules i've configured  so i didnt see your earlier post
  

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  15 years ago

  by paulfp

  Paul Freeman-Powell

  Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  no worries
  

  
  any ideas about this one?
  http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/forums/topic.aspx?id=31050

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