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I have an IIS6 server / Plesk 7, with about 55 sites on the box.
Last November, one of the sites started displaying an NTFS login prompt when you hit it publically. Somehow the IUSR account password became out of synch with the Metabase IUSR password.
All attempts to fix it failed, and since it was not a complicated site, I just deleted it and recreated it from scratch.
This same problem occured last week on a very complex ecommerce sitee on the box, resulting in again, all IUSR permissions being lost on the site. No manual attempts to restore the IUSR account succeeded, and after 2 days of hell somehow we got it working again with having to delete the site.
Now its happened again with another smaller site, so, simple, just delete the site and recreate? No, Plesk hanged when i tried to delete the site from its control panel. So I delete it in IIS6 directly, and it goes away in Plesk.
Now, I cannot recreate the site with that domain name. I have recreated the site, but after selecting 'Physical Hosting' , on the setup page, it simply hangs. A submit results in nothing but an eternal progress bar.
a) Why oh why are my sites losing their IUSR permissions for no obvious reason
b) Why can't i recreate a site
Thanks
Last November, one of the sites started displaying an NTFS login prompt when you hit it publically. Somehow the IUSR account password became out of synch with the Metabase IUSR password.
All attempts to fix it failed, and since it was not a complicated site, I just deleted it and recreated it from scratch.
This same problem occured last week on a very complex ecommerce sitee on the box, resulting in again, all IUSR permissions being lost on the site. No manual attempts to restore the IUSR account succeeded, and after 2 days of hell somehow we got it working again with having to delete the site.
Now its happened again with another smaller site, so, simple, just delete the site and recreate? No, Plesk hanged when i tried to delete the site from its control panel. So I delete it in IIS6 directly, and it goes away in Plesk.
Now, I cannot recreate the site with that domain name. I have recreated the site, but after selecting 'Physical Hosting' , on the setup page, it simply hangs. A submit results in nothing but an eternal progress bar.
a) Why oh why are my sites losing their IUSR permissions for no obvious reason
b) Why can't i recreate a site
Thanks