One of the day, the www service is stopped. I cannot start the service but no error occurred and no error is logged on the event viewer. The error message from Microsoft Management Console Could not start the World Web Publishing Service service on Local Computer. The service did not r...more >>

Good day! My problem is this: I have a web server running and when users access to the web pages, the first page is ok (they can access the main page) but when going to the next pages the web page freezes (hang). the situation are all the same in all the computers accessing the web page except ...more >>

Hiya, IIS 6 on an windows 2003 machine This Windows 98 guy is not getting the authentication dialog when he hits a server with anonymous access disabled. He only gets the "You are not authorized..." page Wiindows 2000, and XP users do fine. This guy used to get the dialog box. The machi...more >>

hi I have a problem writing a Cookie on a Client side via ASP (VBscript).... I can write cookie on client computer only from a ASP script that is located in directory which doesn't have Application created in IIS, and I need to create an Application for this directory couse I need to use Glo...more >>

Hello, I have an IIS5.0 web server that often "hangs", so that it no longer serves ASP documents (even simple ones with all static content), though it still serves true static documents like HTML pages and images. I gather from other threads in this and other groups that this is fairly com...more >>

I has the iis working with no problem and was able to do database read/write webpages. Then I started having a problem reading .asp files. I got it to open .asp pages but it wont execute any asp code within, but will diplay the htm codeing. This when opening these files in the C:\..\wwwroo...more >>

I have set my IIS web server with Basic Authentication, and I specified a workgroup. Thus, when a user accesses the site, he gets the Challenge/Response and must provide a workgroup user and password. I will call this server 'Server1'. Also on my network, I have a second web server wi...more >>

Whenever i go to msn i get a error and says there is something wrong in my browser settings or the site is having a problem so can you let me know what has to be right to go there. ...more >>

Hi Gurus, Can you tell me what are the advantages and disadvantages of having SSL in our Intranet site. Our Intranet site does not have any credit card transaction, but requires Social security number to be keyed in. It is in Winnt, IIS 4.0, ASP. Thanks, Krish ...more >>

Please advise, HTTPS on IIS6 not working 1. Port 443 is binding to the website, firewall open 2. Certificate is installed, and I can view Certificate from IIS6 tab 3. All setting same as my IIS5 box, which is running fine, but not in IIS6. When accessing the HTTPS page, it return DNS / Page Er...more >>

How do you install IIS 5.0 on Win 2k cluster? (Advance server)...more >>

Here are the configurations of my computer: Windows XP Professional IIS 5.1 ..NET Framework 1.1 I tried to new a Web Service project using Visual Studio 2003 Professional at http://localhost/WebService1. It said: "Visual Studio .Net has detected that the specified Web server is not running A...more >>

Hi Everyone, I have seen some webtrend reports from a client site where they show what resolution people are viewing their site under...i.e. 800x600 and so on. I was under the impression that this information is stored in the log file...just wanted to confirm if this is true or not...thank...more >>

Hello, We are going from IIS4 to IIS6. I have noticed the ordering of each thing being logged in the W3C extended logging format is different from the order in IIS4. I was curious if there is a way to control what order things appear in? Does the IIS team just do this to annoy us, or what...more >>

When creating and managing directories in IIS some directories/folders have a sprocket as an icon and others have a globe while still others look like 'plain' folders. Apparently the ones with the sprockets are virtual directories, but what are the ones with the globes as icons ? And, ho...more >>

I have a problem where intermittently, .asp files do not load. All the ..htm files do... if I rename a .htm file to .asp, then it will not load. I have looked through the newsgroup and most people suggest that the properties of the file/folder do not allow scripts to be run: this is not the c...more >>

I am having trouble viewing my asp pages published to http://localhost when I am offline. According to an MS document at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;290766&Product=iis50 I need to set up a loopback connector. I have followed the directions, but it still can...more >>

Hello, I'm running IIS6 and I DO have ASP pages allowed as a web extension. The allowed DLL is c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll. I do NOT have urlscan installed. Yet whenever I attempt to reach an ASP page that definitely exists, I get a 404 error. My IIS log shows a 404.2 error, specifi...more >>

I don't believe this is a problem unique to IIS (because I have this problem in 3 other Windows 2000 servers). But, I am going to post it here in hopes that someone has seen this problem before. Plainly, I can't view the property pages of most of the files and directories. I am logged ...more >>

I have a new install of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise, and IIS will not install. I repeatedly get a "Cannot Install" error when attempting to install through the Roles Wizard. I'm using a pretty vanilla install of IIS. Any solutions? I do not see any Knowledgebase articles on this....more >>

Hi Have an new installation of win2003 webedition that i had on an win2003 server, same asp code. Some times the networktraffic stops for 2 sec and users get sql timeout and aspqueing starts, and then it works normal, the more user i have online the offen it comes. The loggs show nothing...more >>

is there any way to see a list of current running ASP scripts in IIS? If it is only possible by writing my own code or third party software, does anybody know the API, objects or SDK that I can use to do this? Thanks!...more >>

I am experiencing this message when I attempt to contact a search engine such as google, altavista etc. I can contact all of my favorite sites with no problem. I can enter a search argument on my home site (sympatico) and it works, but when I click on www.google I getthis message. I can us...more >>

The problem started when I tried to check out an asp file for editing in Visual Interdev 6. When I tried, I got the following error message: "cannot open file service.lck for writing". Everything I tried to do with the web project in both Interdev and FrontPage 2000 met with a similar error ...more >>

When I request in IE http://LocalHost/ASPtest.ASP the IE status bar displays 'Website found, waiting for reply ...', the progressbar very slowly progresses to about 40% and stops. After that nothing happens. ASPtest.ASP is a simple test script, it only contains: <% Response.Write "Hello World!" ...more >>

Hello, I am using a Windows NT Server 4.0 with sp6. It is running an IIS 4 server. Would you please tell where can I find guideline to setup multiple websites with an single IP address? I have tried to search in microsoft.com, however all of the informations are introducing IIS5. I couldn...more >>

Hello, IIS 5.0 installed on Windows2000 Server SP2. IIS configured on port 88 and its IP is 192.168.0.200. Windows2000 is behind Linux firewall. Firewall has got static IP (its address for example 123.bbb.com) and 88 port mapping. When trying to access from the same machine http://192.168.0.200:88/...more >>

Can somebody please interpret the following IISState log and tell me why IIS is running VERY slow? CPU utilization is low, yet my ASP pages are crawling - even when I'm the only active user. Thanks --- Opened log file 'C:\iisstate\output\IISState-1784.log' *********************** ...more >>

Hi all, I hope someone out there can help me. We are having trouble with one of our sites. The https version of it works fine, but the http part does not work. I'm a coder, but not much of a server/IIS geek and have tried everything I know how to try and am stumped. Here is the situation. ...more >>

Hi All: I was successfully able to download and install certificate for a web site on IIS. I am trying to request a client certificate. Using IE and URL, http://<servername>/certsrv; then request a certificate, on the next screen it comes up with "Downloading ActiveX control" and the screen...more >>

As part of PeopleSoft project, files are to be tranferred back and forth between from Mainframe and PeopleSoft Windows 2000 servers(PSFTW1/PSFTW2/PSFTI1/PSFTI2) . All these servers are installed with FTP sites using IIS Version 5.0 Now, we are testing by running a FTP JCL. It is connecti...more >>

Hello, I'm having difficulty with an IIS installation and a new web application we installed. When the URI exceeds a certain limit, I get "Request-URI Too Large" returned. Here's some samples. The URIs are pretty long... it looks like about a 255 character limit for the URL. This wor...more >>

Okay, our site used to be able to be reached by using the domain name. That still works for people in the office. We had to rebuild some things and now anybody outside the office but behind the fire wall can hit our site by using the IP address. But once they are in they can not use any ...more >>

Hi, how do you configure a client to receive mail from the IIS SMTP mail? And how do you make sure the IIS SMTP is configured to receive mail? MX and external DNS are already pointing at the server. ...more >>

Hi All, I am having problems accessing the localhost on my laptop. I am using Windows XP Pro on it. I installed IIS, but when I type "http://localhost" on the browser, it says "Page cannot be displayed". Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Aries the Ram...more >>

Dear friends, I'm authenticating user through SQL connection. After the user login, they are connected to the IIS server with anonymous login disabled. A window pop up is displayed and ask user to login again. How can I hard code the IIS username and password so that no login pop up for IIS? I ...more >>

I hope someone can help me. I can get to our school's website by entering its URL, but can't access it directly using its public IP address. Does anyone have any suggestion? Thanks a bunch! Greg...more >>

We seem to be having an issue with host headers and name resolution. The ASP.NET application was moved from IIS 5 to IIS 6 (Win2003). The host headers were set as below 80, MySite 80, MySite.Mycompany.net 10000 Trying to navigate to http://MySite produces a DNS error while navigating ...more >>

Newbie question: I'm developing web app on Win XP Pro using VS.NET/IIs5.1. Vittual path is http://localhost/appname and thus all references to development files must include the app path. However, I dont want to have to specify http://www.domain.com/appname ; I would just like to use the url wi...more >>

Hi all, Is there a way to force IISState to dump, rather than waiting for a hard or soft crash to occur? I'd just like to get a look at some current activity. The trace that scrolls in the CMD window is also showing a lot of "first chance exceptions" - ((10ac.9d4): Unknown exception - code...more >>

We are a way off from moving to Server 2003 but would like to use IIS 6.0 as patching IIS 5.1 is proving a nightmare.. Will IIS 6.0 run on Windows 2000 Server? Thanks Sara...more >>

I have some asp's and HTML pages that use HTML forms. The problem is the POST method of the form doesn't work. It returns an error 404 message even though the file is found when the URL is typed without a form posting to it. The GET method works fine but I need to be able to use POST. Ive check the...more >>

Hi, I need to know what kind of specs do i need for a 15 000 users configuration on IIS6.0 running application like MS AutoDL 2.1, i didnt find infos about this. Thanks a lot for your help; ...more >>

Hi The IIS snap-in is not listed at Administration tools. When I try to open the IIS snap-in, the microsoft management console for IIS, manually by opening the file IIS.msc, I get the message 'module is not initialised'. My webserver (Sharepoint Team Services) is running, though I have problems...more >>

Hi, I've got a problem with password protected folder. When I create a password protected folder, I can only have access to it (with a IE) with an administrator account. I've created an account "toto", it is a member of the "Users" group. The account "toto" has read permission on the folder I...more >>

Hello, I am using Oracle 8i as Backend and Delphi 6 as FrontEnd. I connect to Oracle via Delphi to display some records. Sometimes it works fine but sometimes I get this weird Error Message : Access violation at address 0157E91B in module 'oran8.dll'. Read of address 00000000 What could b...more >>

Hello Evryone, I've been looking all over the net, even trying to figure it out by using IIS variables but, no success. There I go with what I am about to ask. Scenary: ------------ 1 Website (share content) accesible by 4 different DNSs website1 --> 192.168.1.10 website2 --> 192.168.1.10 ...more >>