Application pool configuration related failure: The World Wide Web Publishing Service failed to create a worker process for the application pool. Rule

  • ID:  Application_pool_configuration_related_failure__The_World_Wide_Web_Publishing_Service_failed_to_create_a_worker_process_for_the_application_pool__3_Rule
  • Description:   
  • Target:  IIS 2003 Application Pool
  • Enabled:  On Essential Monitoring

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Summary

The WWW Publishing Service was unable to successfully start a worker process.

Causes

This issue could be attributed to any of the following problems:

  • worker process identity is incorrect.

  • Insufficient memory to start another process

  • Too many concurrent worker processes running.

Resolutions

Ensure that the identity of the application pool is correct and is added to the IIS_WPG group. Also, verify that the server is not constrained to memory resources and can launch another process.

External References

The World Wide Web Publishing Service failed to create a worker process for the application pool ''%1''. The data field contains the error number.

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