doco addition - Troubleshooting WinNT/Win2k IIS isapi redirector

[neil <nb...@aisoftware.com.au>]

Here is a suggestion for an addition to the
"Troubleshooting" "WinNT/Win2k" section of
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.3-doc/tomcat-iis-howto.html
This worked for me after a frustrating day of failure.

After:

5. Invoke the URL "http://localhost/examples/jsp/index.html" in your
browser. Case is important. The characters following "localhost" in the URL
must be lower case. If the page fails to appear, examine the last line in
the IIS server log file in found in SYSTEM32/LogFiles/W3SVC1.
	A. The last line should contain something like: GET
"/jakarta/isapi_redirect.dll HTTP1.1", which indicates the Tomcat redirector
is recognizing that it should handle the request.
			1. If the number following GET "/..." is 404, check the following:
					a. Make sure you entered the URL correctly.


Insert:

                              b. Maybe IIS Virtual Directories are not
working. Make a new Virtual Directory pointing to some local files, enable
Directory browsing and Read then check whether your browser can browse and
read from it. If not uninstall and reinstall IIS. (The Virtual Directories I
had created were no longer present at this stage.) Repeat the steps 3 to 5
of "Configuring the ISAPI Tomcat Redirector" and try again.


Although its stupid having to reinstall IIS, its fairly quick and doesn't
mess up your web site content or require reboots.


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