World Wide Web Publishing

World Wide Web Publishing won't start

[dougmcc1]

Any ideas on how to get World Wide Web Publishing to start manually without getting this error message: "the service did not respond in a timely fashon"?

If I leave World Wide Web Publishing configured to Automatically start when Windows starts, it takes a long time for Windows to load (like 3-4 minutes every single time).

But when I set it to Manual start and go into Services and start it up, after a couple minutes (right before the loading progress bar finishes) it gives me an error message that says "the service did not respond in a timely fashon" and the status says "Starting", which doesn't let me start my website in IIS.

[macrost]

Do you have a firewall installed? I had a problem close to this, but IIS wouldn't start at all. Check your firewall settings if you have one.
Mac

[dougmcc1]

Yeah I have Norton Internet Security and when I disable it, World Wide Web Publishing started up fine :)

My only concern now is if my computer is vulnerable without my firewall turned on...

I have Windows XP and I know it comes with a built-in firewall, but how good is it?

Is there a certain option in Norton Internet Security that I can turn off which will let WWW Publishing run, instead of disabling the whole firewall altogether?

Thanks for your help!

[dougmcc1]

Hmmm by the way, I enabled my firewall after WWW Publishing was turned on, and after I enabled it, WWW Publishing is still working fine...

Maybe I could just start my firewall after WWW Publishing is started?

[mattglet]

do you have a reason to be worried about outside intrusion? i have strong opinions about the "need" for firewalls. i myself am an online gamer, participate in IRC, etc. i have never once been "hacked". unless you bring it upon yourself, the chance of anyone getting hacked is almost slim to none. if you are worried about websites getting info off your computer, turn your security settings up (which is essentially XP's firewall). IMO, Norton has made a great deal of money off people that are too paranoid. and in the end, it just causes you more problems than it prevents (case in point: your IIS).

sorry about the rant.

-Matt

[macrost]

Matt does point out a good opinion. Norton's products are one of the very best in which I do use. ;-) (Poking at you Matt :-P) After I had WWW started, I then proceeded to have norton firewall automatically configure, and haven't had a problem since!
P.S.
Sorry about the ribbing Matt! Have you figured out your cookie problem yet?

Mac

[mattglet]

haha, no hard feelings Mac :) it was just my opinion anyway.

i'm in no way downplaying the role that Norton products play, it has always just seemed to me that they are more of a nusense than anything. but like i said, that's just my opinion.

and to answer your question Mac, i still haven't even looked at my cookie problem (it's been very disappointing). although, now that you have mentioned it, i may take a swing at it tonight. i'll let you know.

-Matt

[makeupalley]

You can download pstools from sysinternals (100% free)

[sysinternals.com...]

and use the pskill command to kill the inetinfo.exe process if it hangs while trying to start/stop.

Hope this helps,

Elky