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315378	2005-01-18 06:01:00	OK, here is my problem. Well, actually it is not my problem but one of a hosting customer. After installing Windows Server 2003 (from 2000) a mysterious problem appeared with a customer's site. The site in question is www.katatoonz.com. Now, it works perfectly except for one thing: www.katatoonz.com gives a 404 error. But it certainly exists. Directly referring to any file in there yields the same result, ie www.katatoonz.com/forums/index.php. IIS 6 recognises the folder as existing, and permissions are set correctly. Other subdirectories of the site, such as /katatoonz and /toplist work perfectly. No other websites have any such problems. If I try to rename the forums directory from within Windows I get an Access Denied error, but I think that's because there is a DSN mapped to a database within it. I will experiment and add on to this post. Cheers George	george12 (7)
315379	2005-01-18 06:06:00	Even after removing the ODBC connection the 'forums' folder can still not be renamed .... the plot thickens :o	george12 (7)
315380	2005-01-18 06:13:00	nope, can't get /forums/index.php	Edward (31)
315381	2005-01-18 06:25:00	Nope, I can't get it either There might be other issues as well How fast is the server? I tried to view some of the competition flash movies they had made & on full speed j/stream I left, as they were taking an age to load. Very hard on the eyes Sorry, wandering off the topic now	bartsdadhomer (80)
315382	2005-01-18 06:50:00	what if you shift the forums to another directory?	Edward (31)
315383	2005-01-18 06:55:00	But this is a customer is it not? This is what you say. If you are professional and know what you are doing then why ask here?	Elephant (599)
315384	2005-01-18 07:04:00	im geting a 404 on a file i uploded last night so its my site(not that ive bothered to uplode much of a site) 2 its at sam.jgi.co.nz	sambaird (47)
315385	2005-01-18 07:06:00	www.katatoonz.com gives a 404 error. But it certainly exists. Directly referring to any file in there yields the same result, ie www.katatoonz.com/forums/index.php (www.katatoonz.com). IIS 6 recognises the folder as existing, and permissions are set correctly. Sorry if this is stating the obvious, but is PHP correctly installed on the server? I'm pretty sure IIS doesn't support PHP OOTB, so it'd have to be installed seperately and tied in with IIS. All the other links I looked at on that site were either ASP or HTML, which are natively supported by IIS, however the forum uses PHP. HTH Mike.	Mike (15)
315386	2005-01-18 07:28:00	Yeah, php works fine - it's just that particular directory. Sam, I was still getting the server running at that time, it is all fine now. KT is the only site with any problem now. Elephant, I don't exactly know if anyone could call me a "professional", but I can say this - I have never encountered this problem before, but most things I would certainly know... but not this obviously. That's why I have come here. And of course, I'm new to Server 2003 and IIS 6. I think it has something to do with the access denied thing. I am currently logged on as Administrator and have full access to the entire PC ..... but get Access Denied when I try to rename the folder. OK better luck now - if I stop the site in IIS it becomes renamable. But still gives 404 after renaming to /forums2.	george12 (7)
315387	2005-01-18 07:56:00	<stab in the dark> It's a script - execute permissions on the files/folders? </stab in the dark> Edit: Logs - is there anything showing there? Edit2: This sounds like your problem: www.codecomments.com Edit3: This sounds more like it: www.hintsandtips.com Edit4: Ok, now with screenshots: www.visualwin.com Where is your Google-Fu™ - one search and all those on the first page. If those don't do it, get Googling: www.google.co.nz	ninja (1671)
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