Server Application Unavailable

skrolak

Just downloaded Profiler 4 and tried to start profiling a ASP.NET web application hosted on IIS with the following details:

URL: http://localhost/app.....
Profiling Mode: Line-level
IIS Version: 5
Framework: .NET 2.0

When I try and start profiling any IIS hosted application on my my machine, I get the: "Server Application Unavailable". As soon as I stop profiling, the application become available again.

StephenC

Hi,

it's a little difficult to tell what the problem might be given the non-specific nature of the message.

If you send me the log files it might provide some information to help track down the issue.

You can find them in:

C:\Documents and Settings\ <your name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Red Gate\ANTS Performance Profiler 4you can email them to me, stephen.chambers [at] red-gate.com

Regards,

Stephen

skrolak

Stephen,

Did you get a chance to go thru that log?

-Scott

slaneyrw

Hi support,

I'm getting the server unavailable response as well. My web system profiled perfectly under v 3.2 of the tool

Windows 2008 x64
IIS7
.NET 2.0
Profile on original port


I've tried using an unused port and .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 options but all fail

Cheers...

Rob

Brian Donahue

Hi guys,

It sounds like the web application may be crashing out. Has anyone got IIS Diagnostics installed? DebugDiag should be able to get some info out of IIS about the crash.

StephenC

I'm afraid the log files didn't reveal any useful information about the problem either so any more information you could provide would be really helpful.

Stephen

slaneyrw

I've installed the IIS Diag tools but it did not record a hang dump. I did a manual dump if you want that. ( 25 MB in size )

I did notice that a new w3wp process was launched as NT Authority / System. Can I change this as it is not the correct user credentials and might explain my issue.

The existing IIS credentials for the web application under profile uses a specific domain account.

Also, this appears in the application event log

Source : ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
EventID : 1088
Level : Error
Failed to execute request because the App-Domain could not be created. Error: 0x80004005 Unspecified error

Brian Donahue

Hi,

Sure, you can get ANTS Profiler to start an application pool as a named user. If you change the startup account for the ANTS Performance Profiler 4 service to the user you need to run the application, that should do the trick.