Server Application Unavailable

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.

Possible Solutions :

1) Check the Folder Permissions

For the ASP.NET machine account or the IUSR_ and IWAM_ accounts.

2) The batch file is included in the self-extracting archive below. To use it

  1. You must be running as an account with Administrator privileges
  1. Download and open the self-extracting executable file
  2. Extract the contents to c:\
  3. Select Run… from the start menu, and enter cmd.exe
  4. In the open command windows, type c:\fixup.cmd.
  5. When prompted, enter 1pass@word as the password.
  6. If you have previously custom access control settings or database account permissions for the ASPNET account, you’ll need to re-apply these settings now.
  7. Select Run.. from the start menu, and enter iisreset

3) Register ASP.Net 2.0 With IIS

  1. Select Run… from the start menu, and enter cmd.exe
  2. In the open command windows, type c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>
  3. Run aspnet_regiis –I or aspnet_regiis –ir
  4. Select Run.. from the start menu, and enter iisreset

4) if using ASP.NET 4.0 on Windows Server 2003(IIS 6.0) and running both sites with 2.0 and 4.0 then create a new application pool targeting  Dot Net Framework 4.0.

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