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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WebWiz-Bruce Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 August 2012 at 9:17pm
Why would you contact Plesk? The issue with ASP not working in 32 bit app pools would be a configuration issue within IIS and not to do with the control panel you are running.

You should also be running each website in it's own application pool. Your forum website should not be running in the same app pool as Plesk.

The settings that you need to change are in IIS not Plesk. To start with in the IIS Manager check under the ISAPI and CGI Restrictions that ASP is allowed.

You should also edit ASP settings in IIS to send errors to the browser, and then edit the Error Pages in IIS to 'Detailed Errors'. You will then get a descriptive error message that will point to the exact issue rather than the generic 500 Internal server error that you are getting.
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Its finally working now. 

I told the plesk engineers what you told me about 32-bit vs 64-bit and they changed the plesk(2.0) application pool in IIS, which the forum website used, to "enable 32-bit applications".  But it hosed up pretty much all the websites on that server that used php, asp and coldfusion.  So I put that setting back to "false".

In the meantime they checked all their settings for .asp pages and finally said its a problem with your application. 

However, just for grins I decided to test it more.  I had already created in the plesk interface 3.51 and 5.1 MyODBC drivers and tested them with no success so I tried again.  I changed the variable strMyODBCDriver in database_settings.asp to "5.1" and got an "access denied" error when trying to access the forum, so I changed the variable to "3.51" and voila!  It works fine!

The plesk engineers must have reset something in their search to fix .asp pages.  And by the way its running in 64-bit mode.
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You should not be placing all your websites in the same application pool as a badly behaving app will then take down all your websites.

Place Web Wiz Forums in it's own application pool, not the default  plesk(2.0) application pool, and then change the application pool to 32bit mode. This will allow various components for features like uploading files and images, email components, etc. to work, as many are 32bit only.
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