Windows 10 update screwup
Nov. 2nd, 2017 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennisgorelikMicrosoft released "Windows Fall Creators Update" for Windows 10 about couple of weeks ago.
I did not notice anything good about that update, but it screwed up my Web development environment: web sites on localhost stopped working.
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http://localhost/
Service Unavailable
HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.
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From Windows Application log
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The worker process for application pool 'DefaultAppPool' encountered an error 'Cannot read configuration file
' trying to read configuration data from file '\\?\', line number '0'. The data field contains the error code.
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Fortunately the problem was so massive and so bad, that the solution was published pretty quickly:
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https://superuser.com/questions/1260805/iis-10-cannot-read-empty-configuration-file/1260830
The issue is related to the temporary symbolic links created for the application pools by IIS/WAS being messed up during the Windows Update process for installing Fall Creators Update.
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I did not notice anything good about that update, but it screwed up my Web development environment: web sites on localhost stopped working.
-----------
http://localhost/
Service Unavailable
HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.
-----------
From Windows Application log
==================
The worker process for application pool 'DefaultAppPool' encountered an error 'Cannot read configuration file
' trying to read configuration data from file '\\?\
==================
Fortunately the problem was so massive and so bad, that the solution was published pretty quickly:
-----
https://superuser.com/questions/1260805/iis-10-cannot-read-empty-configuration-file/1260830
The issue is related to the temporary symbolic links created for the application pools by IIS/WAS being messed up during the Windows Update process for installing Fall Creators Update.
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