ASP pages quit working...

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Rainer Mueller

All of a sudden for no apparent reason my ASP pages have quit working on my
website. The application log states that ASP has started. A reboot didn't
do the trick.

I'm running Windows 2000 Server SP4 with IIS 5 on a Dell Poweredge 2650.

Any and all ideas will be gladly accepted.
 
As in "doesn't work", "broke", "non-operative", and/or "kaput".

Everything else works like a charmer. And this system has been working
flawlessly for six months....not even a burp - now this!

It won't even run a simple test ASP file I created, much less the
FPSELECT.ASP to test GLOBAL.ASA.
 
Rainer,

That's not enough information. What happens when you try and run ASP pages?
Error message? Hang? Crash? You have to be very specific. Otherwise no
one will be able to help.

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No error message....No crash.....just extremely (painfully) slow, then it
times out the user. Everything else continues to work fine.

For a quick fix, I've renamed GLOBAL.ASA as GLOBAL.OLD. If I stop then
start the website in IIS, nothing happens, but if I restart the computer,
the ASP files work again. But no new GLOBAL.ASA is created - scary....

So, something must be corrupting the GLOBAL.ASA (or it is already corrupt).
Now to figure out what that might be? Microsoft's latest patch? McAfee's
latest virus signature file?

This is the hardest way to earn an easy living!
 
The global.asa file is only created by FP, when you create or modify the
database connection under Web Settings | Database.

Under IIS MMC, make sure the web site is a application root by right
clicking on the web site, then properties, then at the bottom of the dialog,
Application, click the Remove button, then click the Configuration button.

Then run a check on the extensions

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you might want to simply delete the global.asa then recreate the database
connection with FrontPage tools/ web settings/ database and let it make a
new one.
HTH
 
Here's what I've done, which fixes the problem AND doesn't appear to cause
any other problems:

I've renamed the GLOBAL.ASA file to GLOBAL.ORG

No new file appears to have been automatically created.

But I can't figure out your instructions on how to recreate the database
connection. You appear to have left me hanging with your instructions - I'm
partially there from your instructions, but I can't figure out exactly what
I need to do next. If you would lead me through this, I'd greatly
appreciate it.

RM
 
sure,
to let fp handle your db connection just do this:
click tools/ web settings click the database tab. click add and browse to
your .mdb file. click verify, then click ok and close the dialog box.
that's it. fp will write you a global.asa and it'll mark the folder as
"writable". that's all there is to it.
HTH
 
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