HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. App pool stops on accessing website

Question

There are number of posts on this and I have tried many a things by now. But to no avail. Myself a Winforms Developer basically, started working on this Web stuff few days b

Answer 1

In my case error message displaed in Windows Event Viewer -> Windows Logs -> Application was "The Module DLL C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\rewrite.dll failed to load. The data is the error." Uninstalling rewrite module via installer solved the problem. I wasn't using any rewrite rules so I uninstalled rewrite module. Reinstalling the module may help the problem as well.