IIS Locking Up

[kwinters]

I am going nuts. I have a fresh Win2K server with WebMatrix installed from SB.

I installed McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, .NET 1.1, FrontPage 2K Extensions, SQL Server 2K and SQL Server 2K SP3 in that order. Now my IIS locks up whenever I try to do something. It keeps happening to me. The web page never pulls up when I try to access it and I have to kill IIS via the command line (it will not reset or shutdown via the IIS manager).

Whenever I try to connect via the web site or ftp, the server just hangs. Has anyone run into this before? I have done the same thing on many other servers and NEVER had this problem.

I would appreciate any assistance. I am wasting a lot of valuable time on this.

[Sparky]

I would recommend leaving the virus software off until the very end of your install. I've been burned many times by Norton and McAfee especially when it comes to SQL installs. At this point if I were you I would get rid of McAfee and run all patches for SQL and 2000 (SP4 if you like) and see if your problem clears up. If not then start with a fresh copy of 2k and make sure to leave any virus software off during the installs.

[kbrown]

Have you looked to see what process is killing the box when this happens? This may give you some idea of what application is the culpirt.

Just an idea.

Kevin

[kwinters]

I appreciate the responses. It appears to be centered around SQL Server. I have installed the latest updates. I uninstalled SQL and turned off Virus Protection and reinstalled it. IIS still hangs. I do not see any runaway processes nor do I see any task locking up. The log files are no help either. Very strange. I cannot determine if it is a hardware or a software issue. Anyone else run into problems installing SQL Server Enterprise with WebMatrix and SB servers?

[cwallace]

I had the same exact problems with Windows 2000 Server running IIS, MSSQL, and FP Extensions. I had the server reinstalled twice and still the same problem. Luckily the next week SB started offering Windows Server 2003, which totally rocks! Everything runs great now!

[kwinters]

That is so strange that Win2K would not work at SB and would work at other places with SQL Server, FP and .NET. It is equally strange that it would work fine with 2003 server. I guess i will have them upgrade our system to 2003 and see if that works. I do not like that because it is not identical then to my other servers. But I at least need it to work.

Thanks for the input. I will see if that fixes my problems.

[kwinters]

I am still having this problem intermittantly. When I uninstall FrontPage Extensions, I do not have a problem. HOwever, I need the extensions for managing my .NET applications remotely. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I do not want to upgradet to 2003 yet since i want to keep all my servers the same for consistency in testing.

Thanks.

[TBPrince]

KWinters,

we're having exactly the same problem with IIS locking up with no apparent common pattern for us to track it down. We applied all patches and fixes, either to Windows and to IIS. That's weird. On other serves, same config, we have no probs at all.

Same config with Windows2000, IIS, .NET, SQLServer, Frontpage and PHP.

However, in my opinion, your problem is related to McAfee virus scanners. Check your settings because it's a known problem that if you have script-blocking option enabled, pages which try to access FileSystemObject component will hang IIS. Same thing happens with Norton AV.

Check if you have McAfee script-blocking option enabled and if so, disable it.