Monday, July 22, 2013

The World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) is stopped

Hi There,
              If you are facing problem in starting your web site under IIS like

The World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) is stopped. Web Sites cannot be started unless the World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC is running).


This error indicate that the World Wide Web Publishing Service which is a required service for IIS is not enabled.

To fix this error follow the steps below.

1. Open up services.msc

2. Now find the service name as World Wide Web Publishing Service

3. Right click on the service and than click on Start


Or you can go to properties of this service and set it's start-up type to Automatic, this way you will not have to repeat this procedure again and again.

I hope this was informative for you and I would like to thank you for reading

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