IIS Option Pack 4 question

Sorry if this question is out of place...

Our organization is having an intermittent problem with the web sites actually STOPPING themselves overnite and sometimes throughout the day.

Repeatedly I have to open The Internet Service Management Console and restart the web sites. When I first try to start them up, I get the message "That control is not available for this device" or something like that. After a few tries, the site finally starts and it comes up in the browser again.

Has anyone else had problems with random stoppages of web sites with IIS in NT Option Pack 4.0? If so, how did you fix it or do you know the cause?

Thanks for any info or references!!

killRoy

migrate to Win2k. save yourself the stress.

look at server access logs....you might be getting "checked out" attacked by a hacker..do you have all the security patches (hot fixes) installed for IIS?if not do so at once...else stopped web sites might become the least of your problems later..

best of luck!

We upgraded to Win2k, but thanks :)

Actually we did manage to fix the problem accidentally. It had something to do with a reassignment of the host directory in one of the hosted web sites. Something about it confused IIS and caused it to stop the web sites occasionally.

After we removed the offending web site, all the others stayed up. Wierd.

Again, discovered by accident.