[thelist] IIS Hell....

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:45:50 -0800


Mike Ashton wrote:
> 
> Anthony,
> 
> Can you stop/restart the Web Server that your trying to add the Virtual
> Sub Directories too?
> I've found that IIS will hold files in cache (not a documented feature
> but it exists, and is only controlable from the system registery) and
> not properly release them unless you either stop making requests for the
> files for at least a couple of minutes or either stop/restart the
> specific website.

I should have added that I did try and stop and start the "master" web
site itself, but not the whole IIS service. 

It does appear that something is cached. The interesting thing is that I
haven't access the olde directories in about 25 hours, if there is a
cache, it should be clear by now.

-- 
Anthony Baratta