IIS on Windows XP: There are too many people accessing the Web site at this time.

I started getting this error when I accessed pages hosted on IIS installed on my machine (I’m running Windows XP):

The page cannot be displayed
There are too many people accessing the Web site at this time.

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Please try the following:

Click the Refresh button, or try again later.

Open the localhost home page, and then look for links to the information you want.
HTTP 403.9 – Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected
Internet Information Services

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Technical Information (for support personnel)

Background:
This error can occur if the Web server is busy and cannot process your request due to heavy traffic.

More information:
Microsoft Support

The wierd thing was I was getting that error on Opera and IE, but everything was fine on Firefox.

Solution

My friend suggested the following:

go to IIS Manager
right click on ‘Default Web Site’ (under YOUR_MACHINE_NAME/Web Sites/) and choose properties
change ‘Connection Timeout’ value to 10 seconds
uncheck ‘HTTP Keep-Alives Enabled’
save the changes

15 Responses to “IIS on Windows XP: There are too many people accessing the Web site at this time.”

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Neftaly Garcia
August 12, 2008 at 20:00

This solve the problem, but it could give me another problems???
Renuga
December 30, 2008 at 5:13

Hi,
I get the same error, on trying the solution by disabling the HTTP Keep-alives option I get another error message box as follows after few seconds.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://localhost/PlgWebHome/TestSection/TestCamera.aspx?.

Operation aborted

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OK
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http://localhost/PlgWebHome/TestSection/TestCamera.aspx? is the url of the accessing page.

what should be done? any help.

Thanks,
Nico
February 11, 2009 at 13:25

without keep-alive NTLM auth. will not work
Matt
May 12, 2009 at 18:04

thank you very much you just saved my bacon
Rajeesh
June 12, 2009 at 13:33

This is not a proper solution, in fact there is solution for this issue because the problem is with the windows OS it self, there are connection limits http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314882

So even if you uncheck keep-alive it just closes the connection after it is processed, but if there are more concurrent request you will get the same error.

Ta,
Rajeesh
Aaron
August 27, 2009 at 16:42

Another (simple) option to correct the problem is to just open Task Manager, find ‘aspnet_wp.exe’ and end the process. It will re-spawn and your localhost should be working again.
Farrukh Nadeem
September 23, 2009 at 12:55

Thanks so much!!
James Horn
December 11, 2009 at 8:23

Thanks it works fine now. Thanks a lot for solution
subhashis
December 29, 2009 at 7:40

thanks for the answer this solved my problem
i hope this will help to many people
jan
January 12, 2010 at 8:03

Thanks, works for me. Excellent.
tgbao
May 5, 2010 at 10:55

Thanks , I meeting this problem too. It’s a good solution
Mahesh
September 15, 2010 at 13:13

as you said find aspnet_wp.exe process and end it. but its not running and there are no users accessing my local application.

so any solution?
CNU
March 1, 2011 at 14:41

Thanks Aaron,

it Solved my Problem.
Lilian
May 10, 2011 at 10:50

Thanks Aaron
CDC
December 8, 2011 at 16:18

If you have a proxy open for debugging (like fiddler) this can cause this problem.. close fiddler boom gone