Hi there,

As one of the authors of the Beginning Dreamweaver MX book I'd like to welcome you to this forum.

If you have a problem with a part of the book or with other Dreamweaver MX related stuff, feel free to post your questions here. We'll look at your issues and try to answer them as good as we can.

Comments and feedback about the book can be posted here as well.

Thanks in advance for your contributions to this forum.

Regards,

Imar

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Book: Beginning Dreamweaver MX
ISBN: 8201
Pages 28 & 29

Name: Steve Greene
OS: Windows XP Professional

Hi.

I made sure that the IIS server was installed and first tried the "local host" url. When I verified it was typed correctly, went through the troubleshooting. When I went into System and tried to manually start it there, I received the following error message:

"Could not start the World Wide Web Publishing service on the local computer."
"Error 1720: The endpoint cannot be created."

Thanks,

Steve Greene

Hi Steve,

How did you install IIS? Through the Add or Remove Programs panel of Windows? If so, did you get any error messages when installing? Did you install all the required components?

To see if IIS is installed correctly, open the Internet Information Services Manager and check your local system. There should be a Web Sites node and a Default Web Site. If they aren't there, you may need to uninstall and then reinstall IIS. You should also reboot after installation.

Other things to check are:

1. Other webservers. Does your system have any other webserver listening to port 80?
2. Firewall software blocking IIS
3. Resources. Does your system have enough resources to run IIS?

There is one Knowledge Base article I found with the error you described. It's for Windows NT 4, but the problem may apply to you as well.

http://support.microsoft.com:80/supp...NoWebContent=1

HtH

Imar

Imar,

Thanks for the rapid reply. Will work on your recommendations tomorrow and post the results.

Steve

Hello,
      I want to ask about something but not related to your book. It's my first time here after Wrox back and your review was the first to see here :-) i don't know how i navigate to here anyway.

How to become an Author ? I want to know how ? i'm IT Professional also i'm MCSD.NET, MCDBA, MCSA, MCSE . i'm 21 and i have 3 years of Exp.
                     what do you think ?
           Michael

Hi Michael,

If you'd want to write for Wiley, I suggest you check out http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-171.html.

It contains a lot of information for (new) authors, including addresses of people you can contact.

HtH,

Imar

Thanks Imar,
             But i want to know something from you. Do you think that my MCSD.NET,MCDBA,MCSA,MCSE will help me ?
                  Thanks
         Michael

To be honest, I don't know. TLA's or FLA's are not necessarily a good foundation for writing, but it sure helps on the technical site.

Why not try and write some tutorials, HowTo's etc and see if you can get them published at (non) commercial sites.......


Imar

Also check out http://www.wrox.com/misc-pages/writeforwrox.shtml for information about becoming a Wrox author.

Bruce Luckcuck
Director, Applications & Support Services
Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Thanks all for your help and i will begin writing some articles and see what i will do next. Maybe i will do it one day

        Michael