{"id":705,"date":"2011-06-06T22:11:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T22:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2013-08-09T03:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T03:43:59","slug":"iis-windows-7-appoffline-defaultapppool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/fixes\/iis-windows-7-appoffline-defaultapppool","title":{"rendered":"IIS Windows 7 AppOffline DefaultAppPool"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\"\"<\/a>After installing IIS 7 on a windows 7 SP1 machine , upon trying to view http:\/\/localhost\/<\/a> default ISS7 page the following error popped up :<\/p>\r\n

“service unavailable 503”<\/p>\r\n

After logging into IIS Manager , the DefaultAppPool was in a stopped start. I renabled this and tried again , however upon trying to view the localhost default IIS webpage again , the DefaultAppPool went back to Stopped state.<\/p>\r\n

Checking the event log brought back the following error<\/p>\r\n

“The Windows Process Activation Service failed to create a worker process for the application pool ‘DefaultAppPool’. The data field contains the error number.”<\/p>\r\n

I right clicked on the DefaultAppPool in the Application Pool menu, under advanced settings\/process model changed the Identity to “LocalSystem”. I started the DefaultAppPool up again and it worked<\/p>\r\n

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