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mclark 
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Posted: 04 August 2003 at 9:00pm |
I have installled the forum system on a hosted IIS site and it has been runing for several weeks. Just recently I started getting Server application errors (three instances). My service provider basicaly just restarted IIS on the server and hoped the problem would be fixed. Obviously that is not working. Failure is while tring to access default.asp to open the forum session. After the restart the site will run for a couple more days and then the problem comes back.
Anyone have any informatin on why this would be occurring?
Internet Explorer error message below
Server Application ErrorThe server has reached the maximum recovery limit for the application during the processing of your request. Please contact the server administrator for assistance.
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Posted: 04 August 2003 at 9:27pm |
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This is an error caused by a bad script running (highly unlikely, with my experience with IIS and ASP you would have to try to crash IIS with an ASP script) or faulty server software. Restarting the webserver will resolve the issue generally, but if it persists you may want to double check with your ISP and have them verify that any new patches that they may have just installed didnt currupt their systems.
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Posted: 05 August 2003 at 4:33am |
The default.asp script is the unmodified script that ships with Web Wiz Forums. It does run correctly except when this error occurrs. Restarting IIS is the short term fix, but totally unacceptable since the usual way I hear it is down is from someone trying to connect to the forum.
I will get after the service provider. I agree that IIS is fairly stable but I have managed to hang it a few times on other inhouse web sites. Always something I did though.
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Posted: 05 August 2003 at 9:56am |
This type of error is a server error not a problem with the forum software.
It could be problems with database drivers and they are coursing IIS to crash when getting data from a database.
A few people have suddenly started posting about this error so it sounds likely that some update Microsoft has released is coursing IIS to be unstable when using applications that talk to databases.
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Posted: 05 August 2003 at 6:49pm |
 -boRg- wrote:
This type of error is a server error not a problem with the forum software.
It could be problems with database drivers and they are coursing IIS to crash when getting data from a database.
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For the record, I'm running Windows 2000 Server with updates up to date. The forums use Access. On the same server I have sites which access several SQL servers and process over 10,000 searches a day. The error is only caused by the Forums website. For these reasons, I believe there's something forum-specific about this error, though it could be that the forums make calls my other sites don't make, revealing an MS issue.
FYI, I've just installed the RPC Denial of Service patch this morning, and the forums have been up since then...we'll see if that fixes it.
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Posted: 05 August 2003 at 10:06pm |
I will ask what has changed on the server side. In the mean time I am back up w/o any explination from my ISP. However, when I click the link to the forum I now get a new error:
script error.
Line:49
Char:17
Error: "report" is undefined
Code: 0
Do you want to continue? Y/N
By entering "Y" to continue the forum scripst all seem to run ok.
Go figure.
MC
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Posted: 06 August 2003 at 2:39pm |
mclark wrote:
I will ask what has changed on the server side. In the mean time I am back up w/o any explination from my ISP. However, when I click the link to the forum I now get a new error:
script error.
Line:49
Char:17
Error: "report" is undefined
Code: 0
Do you want to continue? Y/N
By entering "Y" to continue the forum scripst all seem to run ok.
Go figure.
MC
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The only thing I can think of is did they move your forums to a different server / directory? I'm wondering if "report" is defined in an include that got left out of the move...do a text search for "report" in those directories, perhaps you'll figure it out (I'd look, but I have a lot on my plate right now).
Further update: since installing the DOS patch (see link above to other thread), I've been up for over 24 hours, which is better than I'd managed before....could be fixed? We'll hope. 
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