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IIS won't start

If you get a problem that your IIS won't start or when you try to start WWW Publishing Service and it gives you the error: Error 1717: The interface is unknown.

Make sure your Event Log Service is started...

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Posted: Nov 24 2004, 07:34 AM by Thea Burger | with 29 comment(s)
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Ernst Kuschke said:

Ah, that's a good one to put in the 'useful tips' folder ;o)
# November 24, 2004 8:34 AM

Pieter Jansen van Vuuren said:

mmmmm, why was your eventlog service off in the first place?
# November 24, 2004 12:46 PM

Thea Burger said:

To be honest Pieter, I don't know. It is an old box that we use for testing and it is very unstable. Earlier the day the box just 'died' and after getting it up again, I got the problem with IIS.
:)
# November 24, 2004 7:07 PM

pine said:

burger,thanks.

I fixed the error of web publishing service of IIS - "error: Error 1717: The interface is unknown".
that's realy good .
thank u
# December 14, 2004 11:55 AM

sangmin said:

That is one very useful tip... Thx a lot.
# December 24, 2004 12:06 PM

RN said:

many thanx for the tip. it saved my day
# January 19, 2005 5:09 AM

bsdlogical said:

Thanks a whole lot. Windows services dependencies really make you want to pull your hair out. This did the trick, thanks.
# March 11, 2005 1:40 AM

emagmant3 said:

Thx SOOOO much... couldnt figure out why it wasnt working
# March 16, 2005 3:08 PM

Adam said:

This solved my problem I've been having trying to start windows firewall in SP2. I couldn't start the " Remote Access Auto Connection Manager" that was needed to start it. I turned on 'even logging' and I was able to start it! THanks SO MUCH! I've only been trying to fix this for 6 or so months! sheesh.
# March 19, 2005 4:58 AM

dvninh said:

Thanks you very much.
# October 8, 2005 4:57 AM

chris said:

hey thanks!
# November 2, 2005 6:00 AM

Fabio said:

Thanks a lot.
# November 9, 2005 1:29 PM

TC said:

Hooray! Thanks for the tip.
# November 9, 2005 7:33 PM

Crush said:

yay, thanks for the tip! my iis works fine now.
microsoft should have some kind of hint like this on their site, but i found nothing like it there...
# November 15, 2005 12:27 AM

Ramesh *** said:

hi,

very thanks
greate tip
# November 15, 2005 1:04 PM

idiot said:

thanks a lot - fix helped a lot
# November 28, 2005 3:57 PM

Syed said:

Can you tell me the steps to start the Event Log Service
# January 23, 2006 2:23 AM

Tarek said:

Thank you..it fixed my problem
# February 12, 2006 4:48 AM

Ck said:

Thanx. This saved my day.
Wonder why the Event log service was disabled in the first place :-)

Syed!
Take a look in the Services.
# February 16, 2006 2:40 PM

luke said:

thanks man... saved my a$$ big time. stupid iis.
# February 17, 2006 5:20 AM

Christopher Rehkow said:

Fabulous Solution
# February 26, 2006 11:55 PM

Stephan said:

This fixes the ftp service too. At a guess IIS must be able to log the services starting and stopping to start or stop the service.
# March 14, 2006 4:44 AM

MacMan said:

Wow, someone's blog is more helpful than the MS help... Amazing!!! :)  Thankyou.
# March 18, 2006 5:01 AM

tayfun said:

god bless you
# April 9, 2006 6:21 PM

Rajendra said:

Hey that works !!! You are really great Adam , You have Six months of My company !
# July 29, 2006 12:00 PM

lohitha_bc2001@rediffmail.com said:

If IIS does not start try this. Start >Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services Start the service Eventlog and also change the Startup type to Automatic Also open the below files located in Winnt\System32\config folder using notepad and clear all the text and save it. AppEvent.evt SecEvent.evt SysEvent.evt This should resolve the issue.
# August 1, 2006 5:16 PM

Binh said:

I love u, thank for tip. Please share your knowledge, your knowledge will be grow
# August 18, 2006 3:30 AM

buntaran said:

hi all, some of service on windows require eventlog service -> because they generate some log, so just make sure that eventlog on automatically, then try to start your ftp, iis service up oceeyyy
# September 19, 2006 8:47 AM

Bob said:

God bless you pal.. God damn the microsoft
# October 16, 2006 3:43 AM