I had a bizarre problem with IIS7 the last couple of days that had just about driven me to drinking...and now am happy to post a solution.
The problem came when I needed to delete a virtual directory. Simple enough, right? Not so! For some reason every time I went to delete a virtual directory IIS7 gave me this very unhelpful error:
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Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
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Unable to create the default provider, make sure the default provider is configured correctly in administration.config.
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OK
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The solution was to uninstall and reinstall IIS7 from Vista.
1) Go to Control Panel
2) Programs and Features
3) Turn Windows features on or off
4) Uncheck Internet Information Services
5) OK
6) PC will need to reboot
7) Check Internet Information Services (enable all the options you care to)
8) Volia!
Hope this helps someone out there.
3 comments:
Reinstalling just the management console did the trick for me, and it didn't need a reboot.
priceless. thx
Thanks a lot for posting this! Reinstalling the management console was enough for me, too.
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