I just installed window server essential 2016 on my server, and have been trying to access my website using the internet explorer but the error i got was 503 Service Unavailable The server is currently unavailable.
503 error is generated by WAS's failing to create worker process when handling the incoming request.
First of all, please check whether application pool has stopped working. Try to start it again. If it doesn't work. Please check the event log to find the error message, it could provide the detailed error message about how to fix this problem.
Please make sure your windows process activation service and world wide web publish service is running.
This link provide the steps to troubleshooting 503 error:
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503 Service Unavailable
Dec 28, 2016 08:43 AM|Youssuph|LINK
I just installed window server essential 2016 on my server, and have been trying to access my website using the internet explorer but the error i got was 503 Service Unavailable The server is currently unavailable.
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Re: 503 Service Unavailable
Dec 28, 2016 09:10 AM|Yuk Ding|LINK
Hi Youssuph,
503 error is generated by WAS's failing to create worker process when handling the incoming request.
First of all, please check whether application pool has stopped working. Try to start it again. If it doesn't work. Please check the event log to find the error message, it could provide the detailed error message about how to fix this problem.
Please make sure your windows process activation service and world wide web publish service is running.
This link provide the steps to troubleshooting 503 error:
http://mvolo.com/where-did-my-iis7-server-go-troubleshooting-503-quotservice-unavailablequot-errors/
You could also enable failed request tracing to capture the detailed error log:
https://www.iis.net/learn/troubleshoot/using-failed-request-tracing/troubleshooting-failed-requests-using-tracing-in-iis
This link also provide multiple solution to resolve 503 error:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13322937/http-error-503-the-service-is-unavailable
Best Regards,
Yuk Ding
MSDN Community Support
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