Server Application Error

Asked By Laurent Modestil

09-Feb-10 12:58 PM

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I'm trying to view my asp website through my server (local) I'm using MS SQL 2008, Dreamweaver. I getting this message:

**http://localhost/surveytest2.aspx**

Server Application Error
The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance.

re: Server Application Error

Web Star replied to Laurent Modestil

09-Feb-10 01:05 PM

The first place I actually got a clue to where the problem was is in %windir%\iis6.log In here there was a bunch of FAIL keywords. As it turns out, you must have Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service running when installing IIS. Not sure why, but thats how it is. I always turn off services I don't need in Windows XP and this (I assumed) was one of them. Oh well. I enabled the service, uninstalled IIS, re-installed IIS, did all the fun asp.net registering and got it working. Hopefully this will help someone out there out of some frustrating moments...

This seems to be related to Application Protection.

[)ia6l0 iii replied to Laurent Modestil

09-Feb-10 03:07 PM

Please refer to the event log for more detail information,

If that does not reveal any additional useful information, refer the Microsoft Knowledge base article titled, "Error "User Password/Validation failed" when you set IIS 5.0 application to High (Isolated)"

You can find the article here.