Troubleshooting: puzzles about the inability to add mappings to IIS servers

Fault playback

Recently, a friend of the author temporarily uses a computer installed with Windows XP as an information server in the office, so that other colleagues in the Office can Easy Access shared information. However, when a friend configures the website attribute of the personal WWW server, he finds that the application cannot be freely added to the IIS console. ProgramExtension ing.

In general, you only need to open the attribute settings window of the target website in the IIS console, click the "main directory" tab, on the "application settings" section of the tag settings page, click the "configuration" button, and then click the "add" button on the page, then you can add the application extension ing as prompted. However, after opening the "add application extension" dialog box shown in 1, my friend found that the "OK" button is in the gray unavailable state, after you use the Browse button to import the detailed path of the application and set the extension of the corresponding program, you can find that the "OK" button in the Add application extension dialog box is still gray and optional.

Figure 1

Fault Diagnosis

I have been operating on application extension ing configuration in Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Server systems, and have not encountered such a strange fault for a long time, therefore, when a friend tells me the fault, I feel a little incredible. What causes the application extension ing to fail to be added?

At first, I thought that IIS-related system files in windows were damaged, so I immediately opened the system running dialog box and executed the string command "SFC/scannow" in it ", after the system file is repaired, the system does not prompt that the file is damaged. This indicates that the failure to add the application extension ing is irrelevant to whether the system file is damaged.

Without a clue, I had to give it a try and go to the official website of Microsoft to find the answer, the author also found the corresponding explanation: When the IIS application is configured to Set Properties on a computer where Windows XP is installed, click the "Browse" button in the Add/edit application extension ing dialog box to specify the specific path of the target application in the web server and set the corresponding extension, the "OK" button in the corresponding dialog box will be unavailable, this is mainly because the application you entered in the "executable file" text box in Figure 1 contains the compression path, the compressed path is a new technology added to Windows XP and later versions. Although this technology enhances readability, however, in the Add/edit dialog box of the application extension ing, the Application Path is incorrect, resulting in the "OK" button in the corresponding dialog box being dimmed and unavailable.

To solve this problem, you only need to move the mouse pointer to the executable file text box in Figure 1 and click it, in this way, we will see that the compression path will automatically expire, and the "OK" button in the Add/edit dialog box of the application extension ing will be automatically activated, once we find that the "OK" button is clickable, we can successfully complete the application extension ing configuration operation. Of course, if you know the detailed path of the target application, you can directly enter the path information of the target application using manual input, and set its extension name, in this way, the "OK" button will not expire. You only need to click the "OK" button to add the specified application extension ing.

TIPS: the compression path refers to the detailed path information of an application or a specific file in some system dialogs, if the length of the Application Path entered in the address box exceeds the actual display length of the address box, Windows will automatically compress the ultra-long Application Path, in this way, the starting and ending parts of the target application or specific file are fully displayed in the address box, and all the middle parts are replaced by ellipsis, this effectively enhances the readability of the input content and the ease of use of operations.

Fault Summary

Although it is not suitable to use a computer installed with Windows XP as an information server, in some special situations where information is urgently released, there are still many users who choose to temporarily set up personal information servers in Windows XP, so the above minor faults sometimes occur. In the face of small faults like this, when we cannot find an effective solution, we may try to find answers from Microsoft's official website!

Of course, after the IIS server runs for a long time, some other minor faults may often occur. Some minor faults can be solved smoothly through our reasonable settings. For example, when some applications are running, we try to open the IIS Console window and find that the speed is very slow, most of the applications that are running consume most of the system resources, and the system runs very slowly due to excessive consumption of system CPU resources, this is particularly evident in computers with relatively low hardware configurations. In fact, we only need to adjust the running process priority of the IIS server to solve the problem of too slow opening in the IIS Console window.