Hi folks,
I sometimes wonder WHY I ever started using IIS. But it's rather
too late now.
We've got a busy server with a number of sites on it, and we were
just about to replace its system drive with a fresh one, all
carefully built up and nurtured on a separate machine, with all the
right software, and configs, and sites and so on.
BUT, about 18 hours away from shift-to-operational-machine
time, the new drive's IIS has just stopped working! It's an NT SP5
IIS, and was working fine, starting fine and generally doing all it
should.
NOW, it gives this error in the event log: "IIS Admin service did
not start because... service is not installed", and none of the
related Admin/Web/FTP services are started.
HOWEVER, we can manually start all three of the above and the
Web sites, at least, are working (haven't checked FTP). That
said, though all three services are active, trying to run the Internet
Service Manager causes 16 bit NTVDM WOW errors complaining
about nothing intelligible (all kinds of repeating error messages,
you get the picture).
In other words, the system seems to be fully viable except the
Web services don't start themselves, and can't be reconfigured
cos the Service Manager won't run. Great.
So far, we've tried obvious/conservative things like
starting/stopping/rebooting/power-cycling/copying Inetmgr.exe/dll
across from another machine etc. etc. But of course, we don't
really know what may be dead, let alone why. SO, for those who
have been through the IIS hoops a few times:
Recommendations please on the most conservative route to take
to get IIS operational again, e.g.
* reinstalling SP5, but are we sure that won't zap the Metabase
for the Web sites?)
* reinstalling NT Option Pack 4 (*then* SP5, *sigh*)? I HATE
IIS/option pack installations, they usually take four uninstalls and
six installs to "take", and almost never manage to preserve the
metabase through that process. (Obviously, I try to avoid the
uninstall and equally obviously, I get forced to do it when installs
object about stuff already there. Repeatedly. Tiresomely. After 20
minutes of grinding through the install process.
So you see why I'm asking for conservative suggestions, else
weeks of work getting that drive to exact-mirror-of-existing-
operational-server state could be down the tubes.
Ideas, suggestions, sympathies gratefully accepted <g>.
Gee, I got through all that without saying a Bad Word. Too tired, I
guess... <g>
'best.
cheers,
peter
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