Can't publish, service.lck error

[Jim T]

Research: I've been all through the Knowledge Base (303255, etc).

Background:
1. I had my first (practice) web pages (FP-2000) on a personal space on my
ISP which I downloaded to the INETPUB/wwwroot directory.

2. I'm creating a web for my home town in a directory (c:\mytown) on my hard
drive.
It is still under construction but I want to test (learn) using ASP to
retrieve data from an Access DB. Following some KB articles I've tried to
open this web using HTML to be able to use ASP. When I try to publish the web
I'm getting an error (as desribed in the ref KB 303255 article):
Service error: Can not open file "service.lck" for writing.

3. Steps tried
a. Deleted all ".lck" files per KB article

b. Cleared wwwroot of all "practice" web pages/directories and tried to
publish the town web; pretty much the same results (see below).

4. Observed
a. Can not open the town web under HTML; same message as above except
instead of "writing" it reads "reading".

b. Opening the town web in FP mode creates the service.lck file in the
"_vti_pvt" directory.

c. The service.lck file is "0" in size.

d. Closing town web, I can reopening the town web in HTML mode

e. Attempt to publish after the above step results in the same error; but
some of the town files are "published" in the wwwroot directory.

f. The wwwroot/_vti_pvt directory now contains a "0" sized service.lck file.

I'm stumped... any help would be appreciated by this novice.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

You should never publish or work in the INETPUB/wwwroot directory as a file (disc) based web
- you always open (File Open Site) and work/publish in it as a server based web by using http://localhost/
(by doing so you have probably corrupted IIS and the FP SE)
Uninstall IIS (control panel - add remove programs windows components), reinstall IIS and then install & apply the FP SE
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnservext/html/fpse02win.asp
then open the server based web by using http://localhost/


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| Research: I've been all through the Knowledge Base (303255, etc).
|
| Background:
| 1. I had my first (practice) web pages (FP-2000) on a personal space on my
| ISP which I downloaded to the INETPUB/wwwroot directory.
|
| 2. I'm creating a web for my home town in a directory (c:\mytown) on my hard
| drive.
| It is still under construction but I want to test (learn) using ASP to
| retrieve data from an Access DB. Following some KB articles I've tried to
| open this web using HTML to be able to use ASP. When I try to publish the web
| I'm getting an error (as desribed in the ref KB 303255 article):
| Service error: Can not open file "service.lck" for writing.
|
| 3. Steps tried
| a. Deleted all ".lck" files per KB article
|
| b. Cleared wwwroot of all "practice" web pages/directories and tried to
| publish the town web; pretty much the same results (see below).
|
| 4. Observed
| a. Can not open the town web under HTML; same message as above except
| instead of "writing" it reads "reading".
|
| b. Opening the town web in FP mode creates the service.lck file in the
| "_vti_pvt" directory.
|
| c. The service.lck file is "0" in size.
|
| d. Closing town web, I can reopening the town web in HTML mode
|
| e. Attempt to publish after the above step results in the same error; but
| some of the town files are "published" in the wwwroot directory.
|
| f. The wwwroot/_vti_pvt directory now contains a "0" sized service.lck file.
|
| I'm stumped... any help would be appreciated by this novice.
|
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| Thanks...
| Jim Tinder