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Asad Ullah
Asad Ullah

Reputation: 2337

IIS w3svc error

I am trying to start my website in IIS, whenever I try to start my website I get the following error

Cannot start service w3svc on computer

I tried to start "World wide web publishing service", but I was unable to start it as it said:

Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start

Meanwhile when I checked my log I found this error,

The World Wide Web Publishing Service service depends on the HTTP service which failed to start because of the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

Please help me, I am badly caught with this error, I have spent a week researching this error but haven't found a solution yet.

Upvotes: 37

Views: 144724

Answers (15)

legend
legend

Reputation: 1

For me IISWorker Process was running in the background. Open Task Manager and killed the process. It worked

Upvotes: 0

Mandi
Mandi

Reputation: 107

I was getting this error. It turns out World Wide Web Publishing Service was disabled.

  1. Click Start, type Services in the Search box, and then click Services.
  2. Scroll until you find the World Wide Web Publishing Service that is stopped or disabled.
  3. right-click the service, and then click Properties.
  4. Click the Startup type list, and then click Automatic.
  5. Click Apply, and then click OK.

Upvotes: 0

Wender Alves
Wender Alves

Reputation: 51

I managed to solve after:

  1. Ctrl+Shift+Esc = To open Task Manager
  2. In the "Processes" tab locate the "IIS Worker Process" and finish it!
  3. Run on cmd as an administrator. Type iisreset.

Upvotes: 0

Sandeep Jain
Sandeep Jain

Reputation: 11

I am able to resolve this by simply executing the below command in PowerShell to kill/stop service and restart the IIS server

taskkill /F /FI "SERVICES eq w3svc"

Upvotes: 1

Austin Wasinger
Austin Wasinger

Reputation: 119

My Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service was disabled. I changed its startup to manual, started the service, and then IISRESET worked.

I also verified that the following dependent services were started in Services ([windows]+[r] services.msc):

  • World Wide Web Publishing Service
  • Windows Process Activation Service
  • Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
  • DCOM Server Process Launcher
  • RPC Endpoint Mapper
  • Net.Msmq Listener Adapter
  • Net.Pipe Listener Adapter
  • Net.Tcp Listener Adapter
  • Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service

I found this solution by going through all dependencies and child dependencies of the World Wide Web Publishing Service and making sure that each service was enabled and started.

To verify all services for yourself, do the following:

  1. Open up Services (just search for it from the start menu in Windows 10)
  2. Find the World Wide Web Publishing Service
  3. Right click on the service and then click "Properties"
  4. Click on the Dependencies tab
  5. Go through each system component in the two boxes and verify that each service is started (in Services).
  6. Repeat steps 3-5 for each of the dependencies' dependencies until you run out of child dependencies

Service Properties - Dependencies Tab

Upvotes: 1

Asad Ullah
Asad Ullah

Reputation: 2337

  1. Confirm that "Windows Management Instrumentation" is started and its start up type is set to automatic.

  2. Also make sure the following dependency services are started for World Wide Web Publishing Service:

    • Windows Process Activation Service
    • Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
    • DCOM Server Process Launcher
    • RPC Endpoint Mapper.

  3. Open regedit, navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP]:
    a) Double click on Start and change value data from 4(disabled) to 3(automatically).
    b) Delete "NoRun" key if this key exists.

  4. (warning: backup any IIS website configuration first). UN-install "Internet information Service" and "Windows process activation service(if it is already installed)" from "Turn windows feature on or off" and Restart your PC.

  5. Type the below command in CMD and press enter:

     net start http

Now it will notify you that service is already running.

  1. Re-install Internet information Service from "Turn windows feature on or off".

  2. Start IIS and my websites are started now, no more "w3svc service is not running error."

Upvotes: 44

Fragment
Fragment

Reputation: 1585

In my case, IIS suddenly stopped working, and after that Windows process activation service was unable to restart.

The solution to fix this was:

  1. Find WAS service in the services tab of windows task manager
  2. In context menu choose Go to process
  3. Kill process (its name will be svchost.exe)
  4. Restart Windows process activation service

Upvotes: 1

MK446
MK446

Reputation: 458

I have had this problem after a windows update. Windows Process Activation Service is dependent service for W3SVC. First, make sure that Windows Process Activation Service is running. In my case, it was not running and when I tried to run it manually, I got below error.

Windows Process Activation Service Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified

The issue seems to be, that windows adds an incorrect parameter to the WAS service startup parameters. I fixed the issue using the following steps:

  • Start regedit (just type it into start) Navigate to

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WAS\Parameters

  • Delete the NanoSetup variable. This variable is preventing WAS from starting

  • Start the WAS service using task manager

  • Now start the W3SVC service

  • You can now start your website in IIS again

I found above WPA service solution in this stack overflow thread.

Upvotes: 1

Kapil Palria
Kapil Palria

Reputation: 11

I have got same issue on my server. Follow below steps -

  1. Open command prompt (run as administrator)
  2. type IISReset and enter.

It works and solved my problem.

Upvotes: 1

Abdul Nasir Khayam
Abdul Nasir Khayam

Reputation: 337

Run cmd as administrator. Type iisreset. That's it.

Upvotes: 8

Kamran
Kamran

Reputation: 485

Go to Task Manager --> Processes and manually stop the W3SVC process. After doing this the process should start normally when restarting IIS

Upvotes: 4

Patrick Michalina
Patrick Michalina

Reputation: 1379

This is probably a rarer case, but...

If you are using a custom AppPool Identity configuration be sure to check the AppPool is running. It may be turned off because credentials are invalid (usually due to an expired password). Update your credentials and start the AppPool.

Upvotes: 0

Shahid Iqbal
Shahid Iqbal

Reputation: 407

In my case it was C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config which had an issue. I had a "system.web" section in this file which was causing the problem. Removed the section and everything started working

Upvotes: 1

dileepar
dileepar

Reputation: 179

Make sure these 2 services running and their startup type is automatic.If they disabled and not running right click on them and go to properties and change from there.

  1. Windows process activation service
  2. Worldwide web publishing service.

Upvotes: 7

ParPar
ParPar

Reputation: 7569

As for me - I just restarted the computer.

Upvotes: 20

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