PWS Problem

[James S.]

Greetings,

I'm running Windows 98SE and FrontPage 2000 and have encountered an issue
with the Personal Web Server 4.0 that I cannot find a solution to. All
Windows, IE, Office, and FrontPage 2000 Service Packs are installed.

A couple days ago, I installed a new Maxtor master hard drive and mirrored
the old drive over to it successfully using the Maxtor included software.
The old hard drive now serves as a slave storage drive.

Prior to the hard drive upgrade, the Personal Web Server would launch
automatically on boot and reside in the System Tray. After the hard drive
upgrade, PWS no longer launches and FP won't let me open websites on my hard
drive so I can edit them. It throws me the error message window:

"Could not find a web server at 'localhost' on Port 80. Please check to make
sure that the web server name is valid and your proxy settings are set
correctly.", etc.

When I do a Control-Alt-Delete, "pwstray.exe" is sitting in there, running.
When I try to launch "pws.exe" or "pwstray.exe" manually, nothing happens.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled PWS from the Windows 98SE CD with no
success. If I use FP to navigate to http://Inetpub/www/website-xyz, I can
open it. I can also open the live site on the web host. If I type into IE's
address bar "http://127.0.0.1, I get a "Cannot find server" page.

I CAN navigate the web using IE and use email with Outlook. When I check my
Startup tab in the System Configuration Utility, "pwstray.exe" is checked to
start up.

Everything I look at says PWS should be running, but it's not. All my net
connection settings look right...nothing appears to have changed at all
during the mirroring to the new drive. Network Neighborhood also shows all
the websites on my machine.

The only thing wrong is PWS doesn't launch and load and I can't get it to do
so.

As an FYI, I've never had a Web Server icon in Control Panel and still
don't.

I've searched Microsoft's KB and other places, but I can't find a way to
solve this problem so I can update a site tonight. Hopefully, you guys know
what's going on and can help me out.

Thanks,

 

[James S.]

Negative...tried that many times before I posted. Clicking on "pws.exe"
results in nothing happening, which perplexes me.

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James S.


in message What happens when you click on pws.exe (its in windows\system\inetsrv
folder)...that should open the control panel for PWS then you click on
Start..the icon should appear in the task bar then.


| Greetings,
|
| I'm running Windows 98SE and FrontPage 2000 and have encountered an issue
| with the Personal Web Server 4.0 that I cannot find a solution to. All
| Windows, IE, Office, and FrontPage 2000 Service Packs are installed.
|
| A couple days ago, I installed a new Maxtor master hard drive and mirrored
| the old drive over to it successfully using the Maxtor included software.
| The old hard drive now serves as a slave storage drive.
|
| Prior to the hard drive upgrade, the Personal Web Server would launch
| automatically on boot and reside in the System Tray. After the hard drive
| upgrade, PWS no longer launches and FP won't let me open websites on my
hard
| drive so I can edit them. It throws me the error message window:
|
| "Could not find a web server at 'localhost' on Port 80. Please check to
make
| sure that the web server name is valid and your proxy settings are set
| correctly.", etc.
|
| When I do a Control-Alt-Delete, "pwstray.exe" is sitting in there,
running.
| When I try to launch "pws.exe" or "pwstray.exe" manually, nothing happens.
| I've uninstalled and reinstalled PWS from the Windows 98SE CD with no
| success. If I use FP to navigate to http://Inetpub/www/website-xyz, I can
| open it. I can also open the live site on the web host. If I type into
IE's
| address bar "http://127.0.0.1, I get a "Cannot find server" page.
|
| I CAN navigate the web using IE and use email with Outlook. When I check
my
| Startup tab in the System Configuration Utility, "pwstray.exe" is checked
to
| start up.
|
| Everything I look at says PWS should be running, but it's not. All my net
| connection settings look right...nothing appears to have changed at all
| during the mirroring to the new drive. Network Neighborhood also shows all
| the websites on my machine.
|
| The only thing wrong is PWS doesn't launch and load and I can't get it to
do
| so.
|
| As an FYI, I've never had a Web Server icon in Control Panel and still
| don't.
|
| I've searched Microsoft's KB and other places, but I can't find a way to
| solve this problem so I can update a site tonight. Hopefully, you guys
know
| what's going on and can help me out.
|
| Thanks,
| --
| James S.
| (e-mail address removed)
|
|

 

[Ronx]

I am a tad confused here. Unless your computer is named Inetpub,
Inetpub/www/website-xyz is a file location on C:, so you should NOT be able
to open http://Inetpub/www/website-xyz in any browser or FrontPage. On the
other hand,
C:/Inetpub/www/website-xyz should be browsable.

Have you tried right-clicking on the taskbar icon?

 

[James S.]

There is no Traybar icon...it doesn't appear like it used to. I can't figure
it out and I've worked on it for days.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Which version of Windows are you running?

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[James S.]

There is no Tray icon anymore...there used to be one that launched
automatically on startup. But I can't even launch it manually anymore. I've
been working on this for days and I've had no luck. I really need someone's
help on this, as I've run out of ideas and need to get working on a new
site.

Thanx

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

James, version 4 of the PWS doesn't create a try icon, however you should see an icon under Control
Panel for it. Also if it is stopped when you close Windows, it will be stopped when you re-start
Windows.

I am going by memory on this.

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FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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[James S.]

I'm running Windows 98SE and FrontPage 2000 and IE 6. All Windows, IE,
Office, and FrontPage 2000 Updates and Service Packs are installed.

 

[James S.]

I've always had a Tray icon for PWS on startup, but I've never had a Control
Panel icon. How I started and stopped the server previously was to click the
Tray icon to open it.

 

[James S.]

Here's more info I just copied from "wecerr.txt" when I try to open a local
web in FP2000:

"Could not find a web server at 'localhost' on port 80. Please check to make
sure that the web server name is valid and your proxy settings are set
correctly. If you are sure that everything is correct, the web server may be
temporarily out of service."

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

James,

See if any of the links list at the following URL helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?qu=Windows+98+PWS

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

 

[Steve Easton]

Are you by any chance running Yahoo IM??
If so shut it down. It claims port 80 for it's P2P file sharing feature.
Also, set it to *not* automatically launch on boot up.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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