Hello

I got a client who uses what appears to be ASP.NET 2.0. I come from a 
UNIX/PHP/Apache background, and I'm not too familiar with ASP.NET.  He 
had some permissions problem a few weeks ago that I managed to fix. 
Now, he's getting this error (similar to the one a few weeks ago):

	Server Application Unavailable
	The web application you are attempting to access on this web
	server is currently unavailable.  Please hit the "Refresh"
	button in your web browser to retry your request.

	Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this
	specific request failure can be found in the application event
	log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover
	what caused this error to occur.

I'd actually likely be able to figure this out on my own if the 
administrator note were correct, but I can't find anything in the event 
log about the issue either.  Trying to run the application over and over 
produces no record of a problem in the event log.

The configuration is Windows 2000, with .NET 2.0 the default ASP.NET 
runtime environment.  He uses IIS (I'm guessing version 5, but I'm not 
even sure where to look).

There were some application events earlier today:

	aspnet_wp.exe could not be launched because the username and/or
	password supplied in the processModel section of the config file
	are invalid.

I see nothing about username/password in the processModel Section of 
that file, which appears to be:

      C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config

The process model tag seems to concist of:

	<processModel autoConfig="true"/>

Another event:

	aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. The error code for the
	failure is 80004005. This error can be caused when the worker
	process account has insufficient rights to read the .NET
	Framework files. Please ensure that the .NET Framework is
	correctly installed and that the ACLs on the installation
	directory allow access to the configured account.

I also changed the ASP.NET state service to run on a local system 
account instead of some ASPNET account.  I'm not even sure what the hell 
the ASP.NET state service does, so maybe I shouldn't even have monkeyed 
with it.

I'm noticing that a few versions of ASP.NET appear to be installed 
concurrently.  1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 as far as I can tell.

Any suggestions about to fix this would be greatly appreciated, or even 
URLs in the right direction.

Thank you!

Hello Bolwerk,


> Hello
> 
> I got a client who uses what appears to be ASP.NET 2.0. I come from a
> UNIX/PHP/Apache background, and I'm not too familiar with ASP.NET.  He
> had some permissions problem a few weeks ago that I managed to fix.
> Now, he's getting this error (similar to the one a few weeks ago):
> 
> Server Application Unavailable
> The web application you are attempting to access on this web
> server is currently unavailable.  Please hit the "Refresh"
> button in your web browser to retry your request.
> Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this
> specific request failure can be found in the application event
> log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover
> what caused this error to occur.
> I'd actually likely be able to figure this out on my own if the
> administrator note were correct, but I can't find anything in the
> event log about the issue either.  Trying to run the application over
> and over produces no record of a problem in the event log.
> 
> The configuration is Windows 2000, with .NET 2.0 the default ASP.NET
> runtime environment.  He uses IIS (I'm guessing version 5, but I'm not
> even sure where to look).
> 
> There were some application events earlier today:
> 
> aspnet_wp.exe could not be launched because the username and/or
> password supplied in the processModel section of the config file
> are invalid.
> I see nothing about username/password in the processModel Section of
> that file, which appears to be:
> 
> 
> C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config
> 
> The process model tag seems to concist of:
> 
> <processModel autoConfig="true"/>
> 
> Another event:
> 
> aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. The error code for the
> failure is 80004005. This error can be caused when the worker
> process account has insufficient rights to read the .NET
> Framework files. Please ensure that the .NET Framework is
> correctly installed and that the ACLs on the installation
> directory allow access to the configured account.
> I also changed the ASP.NET state service to run on a local system
> account instead of some ASPNET account.  I'm not even sure what the
> hell the ASP.NET state service does, so maybe I shouldn't even have
> monkeyed with it.
> 
> I'm noticing that a few versions of ASP.NET appear to be installed
> concurrently.  1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 as far as I can tell.
> 
> Any suggestions about to fix this would be greatly appreciated, or
> even URLs in the right direction.
> 
> Thank you!
> 


Look at the user that is configured in the application pool. You can find 
the application pool in the properties of the website and/or virtual directory 
that contains the site you're trying to get to run. Then in the Applications 
tree look at the properties of that specific Application Pool. One of the 
settings is the username to run it under. That user must have permissions 
on quite a few folders to get things to work.

1) Read/Execute on the framework directory (c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\%Version%)
2) Read/write rights in the ASP.NET Temporary Files under the framework directory
3) Read/write rights in the system temp directory (default under c:\windows\temp)
4) Read/Exeute permissions on the folder containing the website
5) maybe even more, but this is all I can think of for now...

Jesse

Jesse Houwing wrote:

> Hello Bolwerk,
> 
>> Hello
>>
>> I got a client who uses what appears to be ASP.NET 2.0. I come from a
>> UNIX/PHP/Apache background, and I'm not too familiar with ASP.NET.  He
>> had some permissions problem a few weeks ago that I managed to fix.
>> Now, he's getting this error (similar to the one a few weeks ago):
>>
>> Server Application Unavailable
>> The web application you are attempting to access on this web
>> server is currently unavailable.  Please hit the "Refresh"
>> button in your web browser to retry your request.
>> Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this
>> specific request failure can be found in the application event
>> log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover
>> what caused this error to occur.
>> I'd actually likely be able to figure this out on my own if the
>> administrator note were correct, but I can't find anything in the
>> event log about the issue either.  Trying to run the application over
>> and over produces no record of a problem in the event log.
>>
>> The configuration is Windows 2000, with .NET 2.0 the default ASP.NET
>> runtime environment.  He uses IIS (I'm guessing version 5, but I'm not
>> even sure where to look).
>>
>> There were some application events earlier today:
>>
>> aspnet_wp.exe could not be launched because the username and/or
>> password supplied in the processModel section of the config file
>> are invalid.
>> I see nothing about username/password in the processModel Section of
>> that file, which appears to be:
>>
>>
>> C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config
>>
>> The process model tag seems to concist of:
>>
>> <processModel autoConfig="true"/>
>>
>> Another event:
>>
>> aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. The error code for the
>> failure is 80004005. This error can be caused when the worker
>> process account has insufficient rights to read the .NET
>> Framework files. Please ensure that the .NET Framework is
>> correctly installed and that the ACLs on the installation
>> directory allow access to the configured account.
>> I also changed the ASP.NET state service to run on a local system
>> account instead of some ASPNET account.  I'm not even sure what the
>> hell the ASP.NET state service does, so maybe I shouldn't even have
>> monkeyed with it.
>>
>> I'm noticing that a few versions of ASP.NET appear to be installed
>> concurrently.  1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 as far as I can tell.
>>
>> Any suggestions about to fix this would be greatly appreciated, or
>> even URLs in the right direction.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
> 
> Look at the user that is configured in the application pool. You can 
> find the application pool in the properties of the website and/or 
> virtual directory that contains the site you're trying to get to run. 
> Then in the Applications tree look at the properties of that specific 
> Application Pool. One of the settings is the username to run it under. 
> That user must have permissions on quite a few folders to get things to 
> work.
> 
> 1) Read/Execute on the framework directory 
> (c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\%Version%)
> 2) Read/write rights in the ASP.NET Temporary Files under the framework 
> directory
> 3) Read/write rights in the system temp directory (default under 
> c:\windows\temp)
> 4) Read/Exeute permissions on the folder containing the website
> 5) maybe even more, but this is all I can think of for now...
> 
> Jesse


Hey, thanks for the response, but I don't see anything about an 
application pool.  Is that an IIS 6.x feature?  I think I have IIS 5 
here. :|

re:
!> 5) maybe even more, but this is all I can think of for now...

Here's the complete list of ACL permissions needed for ASP.NET 2.0:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwzs111e(vs.80).aspx

re:
!> I don't see anything about an application pool.  Is that an IIS 6.x feature?

Yes, it is.

The requisite instructions for an IIS 6.o application are at :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998297.aspx

re:
!> I think I have IIS 5 here.

Indeed, you do, since you're running Windows 2000.

You have all you need to know, for ASP.NET 2.0 on W2K ( IIS 5.0 ),  at :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwzs111e(vs.80).aspx




Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP
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"Bolwerk"  wrote in message news:46b37b56$0$31203$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...

> Jesse Houwing wrote:
>> Hello Bolwerk,
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I got a client who uses what appears to be ASP.NET 2.0. I come from a
>>> UNIX/PHP/Apache background, and I'm not too familiar with ASP.NET.  He
>>> had some permissions problem a few weeks ago that I managed to fix.
>>> Now, he's getting this error (similar to the one a few weeks ago):
>>>
>>> Server Application Unavailable
>>> The web application you are attempting to access on this web
>>> server is currently unavailable.  Please hit the "Refresh"
>>> button in your web browser to retry your request.
>>> Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this
>>> specific request failure can be found in the application event
>>> log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover
>>> what caused this error to occur.
>>> I'd actually likely be able to figure this out on my own if the
>>> administrator note were correct, but I can't find anything in the
>>> event log about the issue either.  Trying to run the application over
>>> and over produces no record of a problem in the event log.
>>>
>>> The configuration is Windows 2000, with .NET 2.0 the default ASP.NET
>>> runtime environment.  He uses IIS (I'm guessing version 5, but I'm not
>>> even sure where to look).
>>>
>>> There were some application events earlier today:
>>>
>>> aspnet_wp.exe could not be launched because the username and/or
>>> password supplied in the processModel section of the config file
>>> are invalid.
>>> I see nothing about username/password in the processModel Section of
>>> that file, which appears to be:
>>>
>>>
>>> C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config
>>>
>>> The process model tag seems to concist of:
>>>
>>> <processModel autoConfig="true"/>
>>>
>>> Another event:
>>>
>>> aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. The error code for the
>>> failure is 80004005. This error can be caused when the worker
>>> process account has insufficient rights to read the .NET
>>> Framework files. Please ensure that the .NET Framework is
>>> correctly installed and that the ACLs on the installation
>>> directory allow access to the configured account.
>>> I also changed the ASP.NET state service to run on a local system
>>> account instead of some ASPNET account.  I'm not even sure what the
>>> hell the ASP.NET state service does, so maybe I shouldn't even have
>>> monkeyed with it.
>>>
>>> I'm noticing that a few versions of ASP.NET appear to be installed
>>> concurrently.  1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 as far as I can tell.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions about to fix this would be greatly appreciated, or
>>> even URLs in the right direction.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>
>> Look at the user that is configured in the application pool. You can find the application pool in the properties of 
>> the website and/or virtual directory that contains the site you're trying to get to run. Then in the Applications 
>> tree look at the properties of that specific Application Pool. One of the settings is the username to run it under. 
>> That user must have permissions on quite a few folders to get things to work.
>>
>> 1) Read/Execute on the framework directory (c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\%Version%)
>> 2) Read/write rights in the ASP.NET Temporary Files under the framework directory
>> 3) Read/write rights in the system temp directory (default under c:\windows\temp)
>> 4) Read/Exeute permissions on the folder containing the website
>> 5) maybe even more, but this is all I can think of for now...
>>
>> Jesse
>
> Hey, thanks for the response, but I don't see anything about an application pool.  Is that an IIS 6.x feature?  I 
> think I have IIS 5 here. :| 

On Aug 3, 2:59 pm, Bolwerk  wrote:

> Jesse Houwing wrote:
> > Hello Bolwerk,
>
> >> Hello
>
> >> I got a client who uses what appears to be ASP.NET 2.0. I come from a
> >> UNIX/PHP/Apache background, and I'm not too familiar with ASP.NET.  He
> >> had some permissions problem a few weeks ago that I managed to fix.
> >> Now, he's getting this error (similar to the one a few weeks ago):
>
> >> Server Application Unavailable
> >> The web application you are attempting to access on this web
> >> server is currently unavailable.  Please hit the "Refresh"
> >> button in your web browser to retry your request.
> >> Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this
> >> specific request failure can be found in the application event
> >> log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover
> >> what caused this error to occur.
> >> I'd actually likely be able to figure this out on my own if the
> >> administrator note were correct, but I can't find anything in the
> >> event log about the issue either.  Trying to run the application over
> >> and over produces no record of a problem in the event log.
>
> >> The configuration is Windows 2000, with .NET 2.0 the default ASP.NET
> >> runtime environment.  He uses IIS (I'm guessing version 5, but I'm not
> >> even sure where to look).
>
> >> There were some application events earlier today:
>
> >> aspnet_wp.exe could not be launched because the username and/or
> >> password supplied in the processModel section of the config file
> >> are invalid.
> >> I see nothing about username/password in the processModel Section of
> >> that file, which appears to be:
>
> >> C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config
>
> >> The process model tag seems to concist of:
>
> >> <processModel autoConfig="true"/>
>
> >> Another event:
>
> >> aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. The error code for the
> >> failure is 80004005. This error can be caused when the worker
> >> process account has insufficient rights to read the .NET
> >> Framework files. Please ensure that the .NET Framework is
> >> correctly installed and that the ACLs on the installation
> >> directory allow access to the configured account.
> >> I also changed the ASP.NET state service to run on a local system
> >> account instead of some ASPNET account.  I'm not even sure what the
> >> hell the ASP.NET state service does, so maybe I shouldn't even have
> >> monkeyed with it.
>
> >> I'm noticing that a few versions of ASP.NET appear to be installed
> >> concurrently.  1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 as far as I can tell.
>
> >> Any suggestions about to fix this would be greatly appreciated, or
> >> even URLs in the right direction.
>
> >> Thank you!
>
> > Look at the user that is configured in the application pool. You can
> > find the application pool in the properties of the website and/or
> > virtual directory that contains the site you're trying to get to run.
> > Then in the Applications tree look at the properties of that specific
> > Application Pool. One of the settings is the username to run it under.
> > That user must have permissions on quite a few folders to get things to
> > work.
>
> > 1) Read/Execute on the framework directory
> > (c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\%Version%)
> > 2) Read/write rights in the ASP.NET Temporary Files under the framework
> > directory
> > 3) Read/write rights in the system temp directory (default under
> > c:\windows\temp)
> > 4) Read/Exeute permissions on the folder containing the website
> > 5) maybe even more, but this is all I can think of for now...
>
> > Jesse
>
> Hey, thanks for the response, but I don't see anything about an
> application pool.  Is that an IIS 6.x feature?  I think I have IIS 5
> here. :|- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


State service most likely is not necessary.

Check the ASPNET account in the operating system security and make
sure the account is not disabled.

If the .net app is using impersonation, look at what user it is mapped
to in the app's web.config file, and then check that in the os
security as well and make sure that isn't disabled too. A lot of our
customers do the latter and don't realize that their 'user password
expire every X days' actually bombs the web app after X days pass and
the account disables.

Juan T. Llibre wrote:

> re:
> !> 5) maybe even more, but this is all I can think of for now...
> 
> Here's the complete list of ACL permissions needed for ASP.NET 2.0:
> 
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwzs111e(vs.80).aspx
> 
> re:
> !> I don't see anything about an application pool.  Is that an IIS 6.x feature?
> 
> Yes, it is.
> 
> The requisite instructions for an IIS 6.o application are at :
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998297.aspx
> 
> re:
> !> I think I have IIS 5 here.
> 
> Indeed, you do, since you're running Windows 2000.
> 
> You have all you need to know, for ASP.NET 2.0 on W2K ( IIS 5.0 ),  at :
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwzs111e(vs.80).aspx


Thank you.

Sadly, I don't think that was the problem either.  I'm getting more 
stumped.  I think I can eliminate permission problems (they seem too 
liberal, actually).

I looked over 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwzs111e(vs.80).aspx and 
compared to my configuration don't really see any problems.

I take it this "application pool" problem is irrelevant to my situation, 
since I have IIS 5.x, not 6.x.

First, thanks again for the help.  I must seem like a complete newb 
today. :-D

Jay wrote:

> State service most likely is not necessary.


Okay, I disabled it again.  It was disabled before.


> Check the ASPNET account in the operating system security and make
> sure the account is not disabled.


That seemed to check out.  The password was set to never expire, and not 
be user-changeable.


> If the .net app is using impersonation, look at what user it is mapped
> to in the app's web.config file, and then check that in the os
> security as well and make sure that isn't disabled too. A lot of our
> customers do the latter and don't realize that their 'user password
> expire every X days' actually bombs the web app after X days pass and
> the account disables.


I'm not clear what impersonation is.

I can tell you the web.config file in the ASP.NET tab in the web server 
points to C:\Inetpub\[www directory]\web.config as the "file location" 
(I'm guessing for the server config).  The file didn't exist, although a 
file called "Web.config TEST" did.  I cut and pasted this file as 
web.config and tried the application again.  No luck. :|

In the web config file under the framework in the WINNT directory, I have:

	<authorization>
		<allow users="*" />
	</authorization>

Still get the same error though:

	Server Application Unavailable

	The web application you are attempting to access on this web
	server is currently unavailable.  Please hit the "Refresh"
	button in your web browser to retry your request.

	Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this
	specific request failure can be found in the application event
	log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover
	what caused this error to occur.

Like I said before, doesn't appear to be a permission problem.  Also 
appears I have IIS 5.0, so it's not a application pool problem (from my 
understanding of how IIS is configured).

On Aug 3, 5:32 pm, Bolwerk  wrote:

> First, thanks again for the help.  I must seem like a complete newb
> today. :-D
>
> Jay wrote:
> > State service most likely is not necessary.
>
> Okay, I disabled it again.  It was disabled before.
>
> > Check the ASPNET account in the operating system security and make
> > sure the account is not disabled.
>
> That seemed to check out.  The password was set to never expire, and not
> be user-changeable.
>
> > If the .net app is using impersonation, look at what user it is mapped
> > to in the app's web.config file, and then check that in the os
> > security as well and make sure that isn't disabled too. A lot of our
> > customers do the latter and don't realize that their 'user password
> > expire every X days' actually bombs the web app after X days pass and
> > the account disables.
>
> I'm not clear what impersonation is.
>
> I can tell you the web.config file in the ASP.NET tab in the web server
> points to C:\Inetpub\[www directory]\web.config as the "file location"
> (I'm guessing for the server config).  The file didn't exist, although a
> file called "Web.config TEST" did.  I cut and pasted this file as
> web.config and tried the application again.  No luck. :|
>
> In the web config file under the framework in the WINNT directory, I have:
>
>         <authorization>
>                 <allow users="*" />
>         </authorization>
>
> Still get the same error though:
>
>         Server Application Unavailable
>
>         The web application you are attempting to access on this web
>         server is currently unavailable.  Please hit the "Refresh"
>         button in your web browser to retry your request.
>
>         Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this
>         specific request failure can be found in the application event
>         log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover
>         what caused this error to occur.
>
> Like I said before, doesn't appear to be a permission problem.  Also
> appears I have IIS 5.0, so it's not a application pool problem (from my
> understanding of how IIS is configured).


What Framework are you using?

I know sometimes this works C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework
\CorrectVersionHere\aspnet_regiis -i

This is pretty harmless to run and it refreshes IIS mappings/
permissions that may have been mucked with. Make sure you go through
the correct version subdirectory though...