ICQ has destroyed my webserver
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Topic: ICQ has destroyed my webserver
Posted By: urko
Subject: ICQ has destroyed my webserver
Date Posted: 14 August 2005 at 4:29am
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I just saw that my webserver is down! Yesterday I installed ICQ just to see what's it like and after I made unistall and restarted my computer webserver didn't work! I get this error all the time in IE or FF!
The thing is that only html pages are working but not .asp! I have searched on web and have seen that ICQ was the problem why webserver is not working properly! I guess some files were deleted when unistalling ICQ but which ones  ??I tried to unistall IIS and reinstall it but same problem occur! So, is there any way to fix it or there is nothing else to do but to reinstall windows?? Which I just did week ago------------- Urko |
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Posted By: JJLatWebWiz
Date Posted: 14 August 2005 at 7:38pm
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Turn on the verbose error messages on the server to get a more precise error message to search MSDN.
You can probably re-install one MS patch to get the missing file back.
What OS are you running? What version of IIS? Do VBScripts works?
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Posted By: urko
Date Posted: 15 August 2005 at 2:20am
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I have XP and IIS 5.1. VBScripts don't work! I get http 500 Internal server error! ------------- Urko |
Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 15 August 2005 at 8:51pm
| uncheck "show friendly http error messages" in tools > internet options > advanced, so you can see what the real error is. error 500 is just a generic smokescreen for all other errors. |
Posted By: urko
Date Posted: 16 August 2005 at 2:30am
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I did that and the mesaage was like I was searching for a website or page which don't exists!
------------- Urko |
Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 16 August 2005 at 6:45am
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Don't install this kind of applications in your production web server, the less with mess with it, the less problems you get.
Try to install ICQ again, to see if your web server is fixed, then do a custom uninstall and check only the files to be deleted that you know are not part of Windows or the web server. ------------- :: http://www.mylittlehost.com/ - www.mylittlehost.com |
Posted By: urko
Date Posted: 16 August 2005 at 7:30am
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I reinstalled ICQ and same think is happening. It simply can't find .asp pages like they're not there! Also when unistalling I did custom unistall and it's still not working. So i guess I'll have to reinstall windows again! Probably only way  to fix it!------------- Urko |
Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 16 August 2005 at 7:51am
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Did you install any more software on your web server, like Norton Anti-Virus? ------------- :: http://www.mylittlehost.com/ - www.mylittlehost.com |
Posted By: urko
Date Posted: 16 August 2005 at 8:08am
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No. ICQ was the only software which I installed! Before that everything was working! The thing is that even when I unistalled ICQ the webserver was working! But when I restarted computer the problem occur! First the message was that some other program is using same port as webserver which was the cause why IIS didn't work, but then I chagne the port and managed to start IIS but still I have received same error. Then I have change the port to the original and IIS did run and only html pages were possible to see in IE or FF. As I was reading other forums they have mentioned that when they installed ICQ they had problems with com+( Same problem as I'm having ). They even had a readme/help file how to fix it and I did that but no success. ------------- Urko |
Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 16 August 2005 at 6:37pm
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Right, you said you already uninstalled/installed IIS, do that again but restart in btw operations > uninstall > restart > install.
Do you have any metabase backups? Can you do a system restore? What Windows is it? ------------- :: http://www.mylittlehost.com/ - www.mylittlehost.com |
Posted By: urko
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 4:29am
I just reinstalled windows and it's working now! ------------- Urko |