Web Application Runs on Windows 2003 Enterprise, but not Web Edition

I have an application that is deployed to a Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
server. We are using .NET 2 and the application currently works. I made some
insignigicant changes and now, the application crashes in a spot where it
formerly didn't. The weird thing is, it doesn't crash on my development box
(XP Pro) or another server I deployed it to (2003 Enterprise.) It just won't
work right on WS 2003 Web Edition.

I did some tracing on the WS 2003 WE server and found that somehow it is
losing application state, which would explain the error I am getting (a
generic Object reference error.)

Without getting into code, can anyone think of a reason why the app would
run on XP Pro and WS 2003 EE and NOT WS 2003 WE?

Thanks,

Chris

Re: Web Application Runs on Windows 2003 Enterprise, but not Web Edition

I cannot think of any specific thing to check that would differ between
the two Windows Server 2003 editions. Just some general things:

Is the application pool recycled?
Is application state stored in a way that works for your IIS settings (for
exampe web garden etc.)?

I don't think the problem you are experencing is specific for Windows
Server 2003 Web Edition, but instead i think it is a setting somewhere
that is not the same as the Enterprise Edition you are comparing to (i can
be wrong, but this is what i personally would start).

I think you should debug the application and figure out why application
state is lost, instead of comparing Windows Server 2003 editions. This
will be much more effective.


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Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info


msnews.microsoft.com wrote:

>I have an application that is deployed to a Windows Server 2003 Web
>Edition server. We are using .NET 2 and the application currently works. I
>made some insignigicant changes and now, the application crashes in a spot
>where it formerly didn't. The weird thing is, it doesn't crash on my
>development box (XP Pro) or another server I deployed it to (2003
>Enterprise.) It just won't work right on WS 2003 Web Edition.
>
>I did some tracing on the WS 2003 WE server and found that somehow it is
>losing application state, which would explain the error I am getting (a
>generic Object reference error.)
>
>Without getting into code, can anyone think of a reason why the app would
>run on XP Pro and WS 2003 EE and NOT WS 2003 WE?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris