Vista - IIS 7 Woes

Prior to installing Vista, I was running IIS 6 on WinXP Pro. I have a web
app that I built and runs locally. It's vanilla ASP with a Microsoft Access
database. Easy stuff.

With IIS 7, I can't get it running. In fact, I can't get anything at
//localhost to run - including the basic IIS help files, or a basic 'hello
world' page in the inetpub/wwwroot directory.

I have IIS and all it's subfeatures installed in "turn windows features
on/off". WWW Services, App Dev Features, Web Mgmt Tools, .NET 3.0, and
Windows Process Activation Service are pretty much all fully checked off.

I have set up an application, a web site, and a virtual directory in IIS
(hopefully, I did this right, but I'm not 100% sure).

However, in the IIS 7 console, whenever I try to Start a server, I get the
same error:
"Cannot start service W3SVC on computer '.'."
or
"The World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) is stopped."

Argh... I can't figure out where to start this service. Help?

I'm not running Vista at the moment and I'm currently on XP Home so this may
not be right as I can't test it but I believe you need to open cmd (as
administrator, probably) and type 'net start w3svc'.

Post back if it did/didn't work.

Mark

I met this problem before. I cannot start the web site, it says 'Cannot
modify the file' or something like that.
But after I turned off the UAC (User Access Control) and reboot the
computer, it works.
Maybe you can try this way too.

"aelliott" wrote:

> Prior to installing Vista, I was running IIS 6 on WinXP Pro. I have a web
> app that I built and runs locally. It's vanilla ASP with a Microsoft Access
> database. Easy stuff.
>
> With IIS 7, I can't get it running. In fact, I can't get anything at
> //localhost to run - including the basic IIS help files, or a basic 'hello
> world' page in the inetpub/wwwroot directory.
>
> I have IIS and all it's subfeatures installed in "turn windows features
> on/off". WWW Services, App Dev Features, Web Mgmt Tools, .NET 3.0, and
> Windows Process Activation Service are pretty much all fully checked off.
>
> I have set up an application, a web site, and a virtual directory in IIS
> (hopefully, I did this right, but I'm not 100% sure).
>
> However, in the IIS 7 console, whenever I try to Start a server, I get the
> same error:
> "Cannot start service W3SVC on computer '.'."
> or
> "The World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) is stopped."
>
> Argh... I can't figure out where to start this service. Help?

Have you got another service running using the same ports as you expect IIS
to use? That'll stop the service from starting.

Is there anything in the event logs to help?


Markus

"aelliott" <aelliott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3F91F531-D073-4A73-AF90-BE31AC84613D@microsoft.com...
> Prior to installing Vista, I was running IIS 6 on WinXP Pro. I have a web
> app that I built and runs locally. It's vanilla ASP with a Microsoft
> Access
> database. Easy stuff.
>
> With IIS 7, I can't get it running. In fact, I can't get anything at
> //localhost to run - including the basic IIS help files, or a basic 'hello
> world' page in the inetpub/wwwroot directory.
>
> I have IIS and all it's subfeatures installed in "turn windows features
> on/off". WWW Services, App Dev Features, Web Mgmt Tools, .NET 3.0, and
> Windows Process Activation Service are pretty much all fully checked off.
>
> I have set up an application, a web site, and a virtual directory in IIS
> (hopefully, I did this right, but I'm not 100% sure).
>
> However, in the IIS 7 console, whenever I try to Start a server, I get the
> same error:
> "Cannot start service W3SVC on computer '.'."
> or
> "The World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) is stopped."
>
> Argh... I can't figure out where to start this service. Help?

I had exactly the same issue. I upgraded win xp to vista. Then tried to
startup iis 7 and got the same error message. I went to the services app and
w3svc was running this is assuming they meant world wide web publishing
service. I tried uninstalling and re-installing and then got the error
another app was using port 80. so i stopped the the web publishing service
and it complained the service was not running. Has anyone else seen similiar
behavior on an upgrade to iis 7. Also I did turn on iis 6 compatibility.

"aelliott" wrote:

> Prior to installing Vista, I was running IIS 6 on WinXP Pro. I have a web
> app that I built and runs locally. It's vanilla ASP with a Microsoft Access
> database. Easy stuff.
>
> With IIS 7, I can't get it running. In fact, I can't get anything at
> //localhost to run - including the basic IIS help files, or a basic 'hello
> world' page in the inetpub/wwwroot directory.
>
> I have IIS and all it's subfeatures installed in "turn windows features
> on/off". WWW Services, App Dev Features, Web Mgmt Tools, .NET 3.0, and
> Windows Process Activation Service are pretty much all fully checked off.
>
> I have set up an application, a web site, and a virtual directory in IIS
> (hopefully, I did this right, but I'm not 100% sure).
>
> However, in the IIS 7 console, whenever I try to Start a server, I get the
> same error:
> "Cannot start service W3SVC on computer '.'."
> or
> "The World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) is stopped."
>
> Argh... I can't figure out where to start this service. Help?