PWS problems

[gilgalbiblewhee]

I don't understand. There were times when the Personal Web Server (for windows 98 SE) worked just fine. But now it's not working.

When I had newly installed the PWS right after reformatting the computer and reinstalling the win98SE, later on it would have problems publishing my webpages. So I decided to uninstall and reinstall.

But during my first installation, there was a "Malicious Script" which I allowed, because I need to use the program and it wouldn't work otherwise (if I block it or delete it I don't remember my options).

But when PWS failed to publish I decided to reinstall (by uninstalling it first) PWS. But now when it comes to near the end of installation, this is the message it occurs:

SYSOCMGR caused a stack fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 018f:bff724c1.
Registers:
EAX=002a0037 CS=018f EIP=bff724c1 EFLGS=00000a02
EBX=ff057000 SS=0197 ESP=8089a210 EBP=8089a224
ECX=00000002 DS=0197 ESI=8089a234 FS=18bf
EDX=8197888c ES=0197 EDI=8197888c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
6a ff e8 07 ad 01 00 eb e7 55 8b ec 56 57 53 8b
Stack dump:
ff057000 81978894 8089a234 16df21e6 16df0a19 8089a27c bff72858 8197888c 8089a234 016f80a3 01c70028 00000000 01e0004a 0000000e 0000070c 36270000

sysocmgr.exe seems to be malfunctioning. But the PWS is in the Windows/system/inetsrv. So I opened the PWS found in inetsrv and "start" and the negative reply object says:

There was an unexpected error using the Metabase. Error = 3

So I don't know what's causing the problem.

[Till]

Maybe this helps:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=PWS%20Sysocmgr

But Windows 98 is really obsolete. Try to update. Anything beyond Windows 2000 ships with the IIS. Which is - of course - not my webserver of choice, but far better than the PWS.

Cheers,
Till

[gilgalbiblewhee]

Doesn't Windows XP have more viruses?

XP doesn't run on DOS. So can I install on top of WIN98SE? Doesn't it erase all files that presently exist?

[tthurgo]

Originally posted by gilgalbiblewhee
Doesn't Windows XP have more viruses?

XP doesn't run on DOS. So can I install on top of WIN98SE? Doesn't it erase all files that presently exist?

Well, I don't know if it has more.

Windows in general is not the best option, in any case (Windows or not), if your system is not patched, you are vulnerable. Just depends on the plattform what is going to get you. You can setup a basic nix system and use Apache with Chilisoft to do ASP.

If you update your computer, make sure you backup all files. But this kind of support is beyond HTMLCenter's scope.

[Till]

Well in any case. If you update, just make sure you backup all files. Installing Windows XP or whatever is not that hard.