technical solutions and commentary

A client hosting several web sites in on Windows 2000 Server w/ IIS 5 had some issues with the server processing ASP pages. IIS would display an error for any of the hosted sites when an ASP page was accessed. We tested the HTML pages and they worked without any issues.

The local admin had removed Tomcat and Java components from the server prior to ASP pages not processing. We tried several things to fix this issue including re-registering the aspdll.dll on the server… didn’t work. What finally fixed the problem was registering the oleaut32.dll on the server. From the system32 folder at a command prompt type: regsvr32 oleaut32.dll (this is apparently an OLE automation DLL according to sources located with Google).

After this was complete the ASP pages began processing successfully again. No Reboot Required.
Permissions had to be reapplied on the site to allow the IUSR account to read the files in the web site directories. However I believe this was probably related to some other troubleshooting steps that were attempted before I was involved.