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q: windows 2008 r2 iis 7.5 server stalling while serving web pages i have an issue where my server doesnt serve up pages on the initial request.  i have to f5 (refresh) the page serveral times before the page actually gets served.  this issue is on the server itself (not network related) because if i browse to the sites by their ip from the server, im seeing the same problem.  theres nothing in the event logs that looks abnormal.  ive tried iisreset and rebooted the maching, still seeing the same issue.  this server has been online and serving pages for over a year now and this just started yesterday.
im really not sure where to start digging to resolve this?  i also did a windows update yesterday, a virus scan and disk defrag, nothing resolved it.
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

a: you should start by putting up a basic html and asp(x) page to see if its an iis issue, or something application specific.  if the html/asp pages work fine, then troubleshoot your specific application.  otherwise, browse the site from the server itself to rule out network issues.  if that still doesnt work, maybe check dns or other programs running on the system.

a: i would enable failed request tracing.


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*open iis manager

*select a site and enable failed request tracing from the actions on the right.

*then in the iis section of the site, open failed request tracing rules

*add a new rule for all content, status code: 200, all providers.

*hit the site in a browser,

*open c:\inetpub\logs\failedreqlogfiles\w3svcx\ where x is the id of the site

*open the latest *.xml file in a browser, ie on a server usually doesnt work.
i would copy the file and the freb.xsl to a workstation and open it there.

*under request details you may be able to see what took so long.


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