> It's an Enterprise CA, in contact with active directory. But web based
> certificate requests fail with the following error reported in Internet
> Explorer (6.0, security set to medium):
>
> Failed to create 'CertificateAuthority.Request' object.
>
> When I look in various logs, the only relevant entry I can find
> is this in the Applications Log:
>
> Source: Active Server Pages
> Category: None
> Event ID: 5
>
> and then this description
>
> Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for
> Application Pool 'DefaultAppPool' because of the following
> error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the
> Application Pool. The data may have additional error codes..
>
> There are no additional codes. There's plenty of room on the hard
> drive, plenty of room in memory. I looked up the error on MS's site, and
> found only one article about
> it, where they identified the cause as the IIS_WPG group losing
> its permissions on three directories. I checked those
> directories and all permissions were as they should be.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mike
>
>
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