COM Objects

[turns20]

Hi,
I have just taken over responsibility for mainting a website that somebody else built and it has recently been moved to a new server. One of my ASP pages calls some dll files as COM objects eg.

set objCategory=server.CreateObject ("IKMS_Category.Category&quot

I have registered these dll files on the new server and moved them in to the c:\WINNT\System32\inetsrv directory but my ASP page the calls them is still failing.

Any ideas? I also do not have the source code for the dll files.

 

[SpiderBear6]

You shouldn't have to move them to c:\WINNT\System32\inetsrv ... registering them should be enough.

Are you sure that IKMS_Category.Category is correct? You can check in the registry to see what it was registered under.

 

[vbkris]

do u have IIS? then use the microsoft transaction manager, though as thunder said, registering them ought to do it...

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[bhoge]

hi turns20,
I think u have to check for the IIS server's web user or directory security permissions.I might some problem in web sharing of c:\WINNT\System32\inetsrv .

 

[turns20]

Thanks to everyone for their responses.
Will check the security permissions.
Thanks again all.

 

[turns20]

Thanks to everyone again, i have checked permissions and i am now getting the following error message - any ideas?

IKMS_Start error '800a005b'

Object variable or With block variable not set

//global.asa, line 21

The object variable has been declared, that doesnt seem to be the problem. Any ideas much appreciated.

 

[vbkris]

can i have the code for that line and the code for the objects involved in that line?

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[turns20]

Hi,
The code is below, the object it is referring to IKMS_Start.dll i no longer have the source code for. But this site was working on a previous server 2 weeks ago, our junior network girl moved it onto a new web server and it hasnt worked since, so i dont think there is a problem in the dll but i can not be sure. Thanks for your time.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript RUNAT=Server>
Sub Session_OnStart


Session.Timeout = 60
' Set a Session Start Time
' This is only important to assure we start a session
Session(&quot;Start&quot = Now
' Increase the active visitors count when we start the session

Application.Lock
Application(&quot;ActiveUsers&quot = Application(&quot;ActiveUsers&quot + 1
Application.UnLock

'on error resume next

set objStart=server.CreateObject(&quot;IKMS_Start.Start&quot
objStart.ProcessStart
set objStart=nothing

set objMember=server.CreateObject(&quot;IKMS_Member.Member&quot
objMember.AutoAuthenticate
set objMember=nothing
if err.number<>0 then Response.Redirect &quot;/sorry.asp&quot;

 

[turns20]

Also, how do i access the microsoft transaction manager through iis?

 

[vbkris]

first of all u say the server was changed, does ur new server have the DLL file?

as for MTS what OS do u have?

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[aavi]

The problem could be the code objStart.ProcessStart

This error may have been caused if you are trying to access an object through the DLL which cannot be created with a web request...

Say if you have created a PicutreBox Control in your DLL code.When you access the DLL through ASP this control cannot be created...
I am not sure why and if this is wrong somebody please justify....

 

[turns20]

Hi, thanks for the responses.
Firstly, yes, the new server has all the dll files required and they are in the registry.
The OS is Microsoft Server 2000.
Thanks again

 

[vbkris]

then lets have a plain test.asp that tests only ur object:
<%
'create the object
set objCategory=server.CreateObject (&quot;IKMS_Category.Category&quot
%>

does this page throw any error?

as for MTS:
in IIS itself there must be an MTS (below ur server directories)...

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