Showing posts with label HTTP Error 503. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HTTP Error 503. Show all posts

Friday, August 12, 2011

IIS 7.0 throws the error HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable

Issue : Default Web Site throws HTTP 500 error. The Service is unavailable.

Cause : Port 80 has been reserved for a named account using netsh command netsh http add urlacl=http://+:80/ user=<>. Port reservation is done to give exclusive access to a particular account on resource such as http port or url. To check list of all reserved port urls, use following netsh command.
netsh http show urlacl

Fix : Remove the port 80 reservation by using following netsh command.
netsh http delete urlacl url=http://+:80/