IIS Stopped working?!

[mak-uk 0]

Hi

 

MY IIS 5.1 (on XP) has been working fine for ages. However, a few months ago, it stopped starting automatically and each time I rebooted, I had to start it manually. Anyway, it still worked fine.

 

Today, I tried starting it and I got the following error message:

 

"Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred."

 

What exactly does that mean?!

 

I have tried restarting the system and it still says the same thing. Now, however, it has a red 'error' icon next to the 'Local Host (Stopped)' part.

 

(I only use it on the localhost for some basic PHP development).

 

Since, I have had a look in the Event Viewer under System messages and I can see the following error under the source of 'W3SVC':

 

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The service could not bind instance 1. The data is the error code.

For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

 

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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Any ideas?

 

Thanks.

 

Mak.

[Bursar 0]

Have you made any changes to your network configuration? IIS under Windows 2000 requires that the MS Networking components are installed. I haven't really played with IIS under XP, but I suspect that requirement is still present.

 

Double check your network settings and see how you get on.

[Four and Twenty 0]

you could back up your files and uninstall then reinstall IIS that should mank sure that all the proper components are in place.