Issue: IIS cannot display the webpage

Issue:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Possible Solution:

Make sure the following services are running: IISAdmin and World Wide Web Publising.

IIS 6 Fix for UrlRewriter.Net

Make sure you add a Wildcard application maps entry under Application Configuration for UrlRewriter.Net to work without file extensions, e.g. http://localhost/show/users.

MSDTC Not Installed on New Dell Computers

I had this issue when I ran IIS for the first time:

The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT'. The error was 'Class not registered'.

The problem was Dell did not install the MSDTC, which is the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, and I found the solution at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=881749&SiteID=1.

Basically here are the steps that I took to fix it:

1. Run msdtc - install in c:\windows\system32 using the command prompt


2. Uninstall and reinstall IIS

inetmgr and iisreset

Internet Information Services or IIS is Microsoft's web server application. It is based on Windows NT Server, and it supports the World Wide Web, FTP, and gopher, a menu-oriented tool used to locate online resources developed at the University of Minnesota.

Two tricks that I use most often with IIS are to open and reset IIS using the Run command line. Here's how:


Typing inetmgr at the Run command line would open up the Internet Information Services GUI.


Typing iisreset at the Run command line would restart the Internet Information Services.