Post by AztecWilliam on Oct 3, 2014 12:01:41 GMT -8
I am posting this in hopes that among AztecMesa members there may be someone familiar with server software issues. I am posting here a summary of the problem that has been plaguing us. I shouldn't say "us," since my wife is the system expert in the family. She has supplied this summary. (As you will see, this is not a beginner's issue.)
Any help would be appreciated.
I am having a very hard time getting any help from Microsoft regarding my SSL server issue. I have a classic ASP script that writes to a text file, and it suddenly stopped executing.
Right now, I am able to run the script on a very, very old server only. It was running on a newer server 2008 for at least a couple of years. In fact, the same ASP script has been executing for almost 10 years under windows server 2000 to 2012 OS. The other day, it started giving an error message when the customer* clicked the submit button. It says it can’t process a URL and to contact the system admin. This is because it can’t write using the server object in the script. I got a detailed error message (which is what the one person who responded to my posts said to do,) but it tells me nothing I didn’t know.
This all happened over a week ago and I immediately suspected a Windows update. I uninstalled the last one, but the prior ones that preceded the problem won’t uninstall. They can’t be uninstalled and they deal with the defender stuff. Needless to say, I am not doing any updates on the old machine.
I moved the SSL to a new server running 2012 that I had tested a few months ago and it worked. It doesn’t work now and the message here is a 404 “you don’t have rights to this page..” or whatever. I need to give the IIS users special permissions so they can create files/write data. When I try (as admin) to do that these permissions options are grayed out, so I can’t change their rights. It seems clear that I can’t give users the necessary rights to write to the text file. I am pretty much stuck with only the old server to run, because probably all of the others have the presumably problematic updates installed.
I don’t know if you have any ideas, but I have posted all over TECHNET and even on the partner’s site. Bill called around trying to find an mcse we could pay, but they aren’t interested and maybe he didn’t get one with the right skills. Anyway, let me know what you think. Thanks.
*The context is a commercial site we host. Customers choose products, indicate how many they want, what color, etc.
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