IIS7 Replication Configuration Settings

Question

I am trying to set up a web farm where IIS configuration settings are replicated between the 2 servers. I do not want to use a shared configuration as this presents another point of failure. I have both machines (WWW1 and WWW2) set up to use a configuration file on D:\IISConfig. With this done I manually copy the configruation files from WWW1 to WWW2 and WWW2 works just fine. I then took it one step further and added file replication to automatically push any changes on WWW1 to WWW2. Then I added an App Pool to WWW1. At this point I can also browse my website with no issues on WWW1. When I went to IIS7 on WWW2 , I could see the new app pool . . .- GREAT. I tried to browse the website on WWW2 and I get an error that shuts down the DefaultAppPool:

The Module DLL c:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\authsspi.dll failed to load. The data in this error . . .

Any ideas why this might be occuing and how to get arround it?

Thanks

Answer 1

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I think that when you use the configuation file and path, it is pretty much the same as using a shared configuration.

I would check that you have exactly the same modules loaded as it sounds to me like you have a security module on one web server that is not on the other, the config file is telling it to load which is causing the server to fail.