MS Server Cache issue

[bug_girl]

ok, this is driving me nuts, and i'm hoping someone out there knows more about MS servers than i do. (why we actually run a server with microsoft is a whole other issue. )

anyway--
anytime i try to FTP new pages onto the server, it doesn't work. In fact, some of the folders won't let me make any changes at all, even to existing files. I know the files are written over, but....

when you go into the browser, nothing.
dump browser cache....same page.
look at code....nope, nothing's changed.

BTW, they are all .asp pages.

What is the magic word that will let me do this without having to call the freaking sys admin to come and reset the server cache??

 

[evildave]

Umm... I don't know. Have you tried copying the files back down from the FTP server (to a different folder) and verified that they were the same as what you put up?

If so, and you HAVE cleared your internet cache since, you may indeed have to talk to one of the admin people to find out if they MOVED your web data, or are otherwise cacheing it somewhere for you.

 

[bug_girl]

I ran into this the last time i tried to add pages.
If you reverse copy the files, they are changed, but the files that are displayed are the old files.
Oddly enough, this is only true for 3 of the 5 subdirectories.

 

[Zep]

Check destination file and directory protections (and ownerships) on the server. They need to be accessible for read/write by the username that FTP uses (for anonymous), or by the provided username (logged in FTP).

If those files/directories are protected against you, FTP into the server won't happen, but you may get little or no warning or reason as to why. Test this if you aren't sure.

From what you have said, doesn't sound like a cache issue.

What do you mean "reverse copied"??

 

[bug_girl]

by reverse copied, i mean FTP'ed the files back to my desktop to look and see if they were updated. they were.

I *am* able to change the files now that i am here at work, so it looks like anyone uploading to certain folders from a remote site is blocked, and the pages are served from a cache.

huh.

 

[evildave]

Hmm, a lot of people block access by IP. Only certain IP addresses (such as the local subnet) are allowed to change certain things.

 

[scribble]

I dont' knwo jack about Windows.

But -- you are using ASP

I understand that is a scripting language.

Most scripting languages perform better when compiled once and cached.

If IIS is smart enough to compile the ASP and cache it, it may not be smart enough to reload the code from disk and recompile when it's been updated. Perhaps there is a command you can issue to cause it to reload, or perhaps you can restart the webserver.

I don't know if that's at all related to your problem -- but I do know that if you'd described the exact same symptoms to me using Perl in mod_perl on apache, that'd be your problem.