More Tips and Troubleshooting Help for Classic ASP Developers

Posted: Feb 20, 2009  8 comments  

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our server is migrated to (windows 2008/sql2008/iis7) it throws error error '80040e4d'  while connecting database, i enabled Failed Request Tracing.

The error log as below

        Url 83.244.197.221/.../index.asp

App Pool DefaultAppPool

Authentication anonymous

User from token NT AUTHORITY\IUSR

Activity ID {00000000-0000-0000-3100-0080000000F2}

Site 1

Process 4652

Failure Reason STATUS_CODE

Trigger Status 500

Final Status 500

Time Taken 47 msec

ASP_LOG_ERROR

LineNumber 24

ErrorCode 80040e4d

Description

WARNINGS

ModuleName IsapiModule

Notification 128

HttpStatus 500

HttpReason Internal Server Error

HttpSubStatus 0

ErrorCode 0

ConfigExceptionInfo  

Notification EXECUTE_REQUEST_HANDLER

ErrorCode The operation completed successfully. (0x0)

and my database connection classic ASP code is as below

Dim rsUSERSESSIONEXISTS

          set rsUSERSESSIONEXISTS = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")

                          rsUSERSESSIONEXISTS.ActiveConnection = "Driver={SQL Server};Server=" & Request.ServerVariables("LOCAL_ADDR") & ";Database=e2mdev"

                          rsUSERSESSIONEXISTS.Source = "SELECT * FROM userinfo_userinfo"

                          rsUSERSESSIONEXISTS.CursorType = 0

                          rsUSERSESSIONEXISTS.CursorLocation = 2

                          rsUSERSESSIONEXISTS.LockType = 3

                          rsUSERSESSIONEXISTS.Open()

                          rsUSERSESSIONEXISTS_numRows = 0

please help me

Mar 13 2009 by Anonymous
Bret Bentzinger

This error 80040e4d  means that the database refused the connection due to ACCESS DENIED.  So the actual user tring to connect to the database, does not have permissions to do so.  In this case it looks like the user is NT AUTHORITY\IUSR for the thread making the call, and it doesn't look like a username and password is passed in to the connection string.   So unless the database e2mdev allows everyone and Anonymous access that call will fail.  I would doublecheck the security on the e2mdev database, and then make sure you are connecting as someone with access.

Mar 13 2009 by Bret Bentzinger