IIS 6 not saving my settings

Hi,

I am relatively new to IIS and I am having problems saving settings. For example I added PHP to the Web Service Extensions, checked it so that it was allowed, then right clicked my server to stop and then restart it. Once it had restarted I went back to Web Service Extensions and it had gone. I did this on multiple occasions all with the same result. I also changed the host headers value on a new site I created in the web sites folder. Again everything was fine until I stopped and started IIS.

Am I missing something really obvious? Has Anybody else ever experienced this?

Thanks

When you make changes to IIS, your settings are saved to the in-memory metabase. If IIS were to crash before the in-memory metabase were flushed to disk, your settings would not be saved.

The best way to check for this is to look at your event viewer logs for errors that the inetinfo.exe or related process has terminated unexpectedly.

Hello,

Check the IIS error logs for more details - systemroot\System32\LogFiles\HTTPERR

Regards

Thanks for the replies,

I didnt see anything wrong in my error log but managed to get around the problem.

Rather than using the GUI to stop and restart IIS I used iisreset from the command prompt. Restarting that way seemed to keep everything intact. Just incase anybody else has similar issues try restarting IIS that way