I have recently set up a new webserver. It's a Win 2000 Adv. Server fully patched ASPX capable, frontpage 2002 server extentions loaded, IIS 5. I am hosting only one website on this server, as it is still in testing. The strange thing is when I try and create a subweb for the domain h...more >>

Recently, my server has slowed down and the log shows there are many accesses to my server. Is my server under attack? 2003-10-16 00:00:13 61.93.76.178 - W3SVC3 WEB01 202.95.121. 40 80 GET /default.asp - 200 0 0 189 0 HTTP/1.1 2003-10-16 00:00:14 61.93.76.178 - W3SVC3 WEB01 ...more >>

We have installed MS Visual studio.net on our windows 2000 OS. We are trying to create a web project for that it is required have ASPNET account. I searched for this account in security panel of our project panel. But i did not find account name with ASPNET name. Can anybody help me in this ...more >>

I have the follwing problems on a windows 2000 server running IIS for our intranet. Our home page which has asp content on it takes too long to load. When I look at the event viewer I see the ffg error in the application log: Warning: IIS log failed to write entry, File /sbo/eqicresearch/g...more >>

I'd like to put up a DOT NET web site and it appears that 2000 Workstation can do this but I'm concerned that even though IIS on my 2000 workstation allows tuning for thousands of connections that maybe this is means nothing and I'll be limited to some much smaller number of connections than if I...more >>

We've been trying to figure a problem with IIS where the application will hang unexpectedly. We tried IISState to generate a log of the DLL host and we need someone's help to interpret it. We think its the custom dll but we're not really sure. We're using IIS 5.0 w2k adv svr on our servers and s...more >>

I have asked this question in the ASP.net newsgroups but have not found a solution, so I am trying here. Is there any setting in iis that will cause the session variables to persist. I have two aspx pages, A & B. A session variable is set on page A. The session variable is then used on page...more >>

If anyone can be of assistance in helping solve my dilemas I would be most grateful... (A) I have tried using the lockdown tool on my IIS installation but it keeps killing access to the server. I have Webmail access set up via ASP. Where should I discover the correct settings for securing...more >>

Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 IIS 5 I'm trying to set up a web site so that the user has to enter in a userid and password before they can view it. I've gotten that to work if they are trying to view .HTML files, but when ever they try to access an ASP file, they jump back to the logi...more >>

Hello, I am using IIS4. I know how to setup a virtual web site. But I don't know how to setup a virtual FTP site. Would you please teach me how to configure host headers for a virtual ftp site? ...more >>

Has anyone noticed that in IIS 6 you can no longer specify a path to a default document? In IIS4 and IIS5 an administrator was able to specify a path such as "directory1/default.htm" IIS6 no long allows this. Does anyone know of a Registry hack or does anyone know of a way to enable this abil...more >>

Hi, We are using ASP pages and the response object in conjunction with the binarywrite method and a custom com dll in order to stream files back to users. All works fine, except mhtml web archives(*.mht or *.mhtml files) . When we stream an mhtml web archive back to the user we see the actua...more >>

I have created an ASP page with FP2000 using the sample NorthWind database. I walked through the Insert Database Result wizard, selecting the Customer table and made no other changes from the default. The result is the Customerid.asp page, the Global.asa file and the fpdb/fpnwind.mdb dataset. So...more >>

How can I create accounts for external users coming in on my DSL line? I'd like to be able to have them type in a username/password I assign them into a web form in order for them to get access. What's the easiest ...more >>

I'm running IIS 5.1 on xp with .net 1.1. Whenever I do a request locally either localhost or machine name to any page .htm .asp .aspx the system process on my machine spikes. My cpu goes to 100% with system being the main culprit. inetinfo and dllhost both show 0%. Anywhere from 2 to 10...more >>

Hi I am trying to figure out how to list all the asp files in a certain virtual directory in IIS using ADSI. I was looking for documentation on the MSDN site but it is not clear at all..... any tips r appreciated. thanks Anand...more >>

Hi...I am experiencing the following error when trying to log on to a particular .org website from all of our computers running Win 98 SE and 2000. The computers running XP are not having this problem. The error: HTTP - Internal Server Error - ASP error Internet Information Services. This Page canno...more >>

I recently setup multiple hosts on a IIS 5.0 server by having two different DNS names pointing to the same server address. After doing so, my ASP page that uses Cookies doesn't work, using either DNS name, but if I use the WINS name it works fine, am I missing an important step?...more >>

Is there any way to modify IIS (in layman's terms) to capture the name of the PC getting updated, instead of using the IP address? We use DHCP, so the addresses change on a frequent basis, and capturing the IP is almost pointless. We are running SUS server on Win2K Server and Win2K3 Web, neith...more >>

I'm running iis 5.0 on Windows 2000 server SP4. ISM just closes with no error messages or no entries in the event viewer whenever I right click and select properties for the default web site. I can look at the properties of other websites I host as well as the properties of the default web site fr...more >>

I have installed Windows XP Pro at my home PC. I am not able to see my pc in the IIS manager. I dont have any other network connections here. I am not able to set up the virtual directories as i cant locate my pc. Can anyone suggest what might be the problem? Cynthia...more >>

I was installing SUS on my IIS/Exchange server. The whole thing bomded on me. I unistalled the SUS and Unistalled the IIS lockdown tool. However I have a intranet site forwading to and internet site on the same server. I.E. (www.doamin.net is going to www.doamin.com). Each site use a dif...more >>

I just migrated a customer to a server running Windows 2003 RTM (no patches or updates) They had Real Media .RMVB files on their site. After the migration these files are borken. At first I though it was a firewall issue, so I tried the web directly on the serer (after adding the URL to the...more >>

Hi, Windows 2003 Webserver edition with about 40 sites, some with shared IP with host-header records, and some on assigned IP address. Suddenly yesterday everything failed with "500 Internal Server Error" Turning off the "show friendly errormessages" in IE displays "The data is invalid" ...more >>

Is there a script mapping I can add to CMD.exe? Will it redirect the input and output? MS-DOS application on an MS web server? That doesn't seem too much to ask. Maybe there are some third-party tools. I would consider that option too. Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences....more >>

I am trying to set up Sophos Remote Update services on a Win2K server with IIS. When I try to download .dll files I get an error message that the server can't be reached. All other file types can be dowloaded including ..exe. How do I set this up so that .dll's can also be downloaded. Byron...more >>

Hi, In developing IIS/ASP apps mostly using a single machine as local host, I'm having to do things like disable script blocking in Norton AV and lowering security settings in Zone Alarm Pro, etc. So I thought I would try disconnecting this machine from the Internet while my guard is lowered, ...more >>

Can you use SUS without enabling IIS? If so how, and do you lose any functionality?...more >>

Hello, Recently aquired a new IIS4.0 problem. The first time I start the Internet Service Manager (in the Microsoft Management Console) after rebooting, the folders in the tree control for "Internet Information Server" and "Microsoft Transaction Server" are empty. I can't see the web server...more >>

i am trying to Run ASP system by connecting to a database but the problem is 1. it won't let me Insert data in to the database. 2. its giving this error: Error Type: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005) [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]General error Unable to open...more >>

Hi, I have 2 Windows 2000 Servers [SP3] and all subsequent MS Windows updates applies (except for SP4). When I go into the management console for IIS, I used to see the Virtual Server. I know I did because I modified it a long time ago. More recently, I don't see it anymore. The SMTP serv...more >>

Hi, I'm running Windows 2000 Professional. In computer management console, Server Applications and Services does not appear in the tree. Instead, Services and Applications appears, but no node for IIS is displayed. There is a node for Services, which when expanded, lists only IIS Admin Service. ...more >>

Help! I installed some patches like service pack 1 and all the other updates so my computer is fully current and now after a couple days it slows down so much that it's unusuable. I either have to reboot or release and refresh my IP address to get it back to normal. Any ideas?...more >>

Hi, Can I change the IIS Log file name from W3SVCX\exyymmdd.log to MySiteName\exyymmdd.log? Thanks. ...more >>

Recently, my server has been receiving many unusual requests. These requests increases everyday. Is my server under attack? What can I do about it? GET /default.asp - 200 0 0 189 0 HTTP/1.1 202.95.121.40 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.5;+Windows+98) - - SEARCH / - 411 0 210 42 0 HTTP/1.1...more >>

I had three different sites defined and working properly. They are on an IIS5 set up on a Win 2000 server. The sites are set up for testing over an internal network. The internal DNS server is setup to allow access to the sites. There is now a problem. The sites now all point to the first pa...more >>

Hi, saw already several postings about that topic but nothing helped. We have several OWA´s running (W2K,Exchange 5.5, SP3), half of them with a RSA agent to handle authentication. On 2 of the OWA with the RSA agents INETINFO takes once-twice per day nearly 100% CPU. End users hitting the OWA-URL j...more >>

I am struggling to get working an FTP site on a Windows 2000 Pro box with a ADSL line with static IP from the ISP. I have started the FTP service in Internet Information Services, specified a home directory for the FTP site and I cannot get into the site from a remote machine. All I get ...more >>

Hi We have an web application with ASP and client script using RDS -HTTP to call COM objects Everything works fine in a single server. We decided to separate web and app (COM) in different server. The COM request should come to WEb server and need to redirect to app server. We can not use app ser...more >>

Got a website, made in FP 2003, and running on W2K3 server with IIS 6. In IIS, besides my site, it shows another site MS Sharepoint administrator. The last one I can fiddle with the server extensions, however my own site does not even have the tabs referring to Server extension when I right-click th...more >>

I know this is 2003 but I am having problems with W2K server with IIS5. It keeps coming to a halt and it seems that we are having problems with our out-of-process applications. They seem to be waiting for something....Would anyone be able to help if I sent you a snippet? I seem to have 2 types of en...more >>

Hi! Pat, I need your help with iisstate log analysis! Thank you! I am running Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 (worker process mode), and sometimes asp pages hang while html pages working fine. Following is the iisstate log: Opened log file 'C:\iisstate\output\IISState-3736.log' ********...more >>

I am running Windows 2K, IIS 5. I am hosting a website internally. I can access it internally via http://myserver, no problem. My clients can access it externally via http://www.mywesbite.com, no problem, and by the public IP no problem. I cannot however access my website from my inter...more >>

Hi I can install some programs on my installation of win2003 web edition server, for example Microsoft Base line security analyser, why ? some security settings ? //Mattias...more >>

Hello, in our prod. environment we have a web app. using external CSS running on IIS 6. the app. displays texts in boxes and these boxes should be of the same size, but for some reason the size of the boxes are not the same. where this seems to work fine in the test environment on IIS 6. ...more >>

When using the cert wiz and filling in the field for Organizational Unit with this info: USA, ou=PKI, ou=CompanyName I get and error: "invalid x500 characters" The problem is the equals sign. We MUST have the equal sign. It worked fine in IIS 5.0. Adding "" around the phrase does...more >>

i have windows xp home in my computer, but the computer don't have IIS for see test web pages, how i can work in ASP in windows XP HOME? I need IIS. How i can download IIS? I suppose than windows xp was better than windows 98, windows 98 have ISS why you don't put IIS to windows XP home? my e-mail...more >>

We have a strange problem on our webserver. IIS keeps giving us "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation." for any ASP page. Stopping and starting a site fixes the problem temporarily but it come back soon enough. We have checked: drive space paging file size registry size and ...more >>

<% Dim oShell Dim iRreturn Set oShell = GetObject("","Wscript.Shell") If oshell is nothing Then Set oShell = Server.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") End If oShell.Run "notepad.exe",3, iRreturn Set oShell = Nothing %> OS: Windows 2000 Professional When I run the above code no error message i...more >>

Can anyone assist with the following? I need to install Java virtual Machine on Windows 2003 Web Edition, I know Microsoft have pulled to this product but I am told it will install. I need to install it because I am using a specific e-commerce package which is an off the shelf product that requires...more >>

when i try to run an exe file, i have the following error ERROR code 3002: The system has some files that are locked exclusively this may be caused by maintenance processes. Come back in few minutes any suggestions...more >>

Hi, My OS is w2k + IIS5.0, When I got some problem with IIS, I unintalled it and reinstalled. Then I installed w2k sp4 after reinstalling IIS. A dll function(for encrypting password) ran smoothly in my application before uninstalling IIS. But It can't run after reinstalling IIS. Is it affected by IU...more >>

Could IIs provide such machanism of limiting one IP only have several thread web access? I opened a web service for public usage. but I found one IP will occupy up to 20 web link at the sametime, it really affect the performance of my Web service. ...more >>

After executing 1 or 2 queries , iis stops responding . After this it responds only html not any scripting language . None of queries work after this . No insert , no delete , no update is done . so please help me to work this out . it's urjent Thank u. *** Sent via Developersdex htt...more >>

After executing 1 or 2 queries , iis stops responding . After this it responds only html not any scripting language . None of queries work after this . No insert , no delete , no update is done . so please help me to work this out . it's urjent Thank u. ********************************...more >>

Hello, the other day discovered this news groups and asked a question. I opened a new account for "News Group" in my Netscape Navigator with identifier: microsoft.public.inetserver.iis but I couldn't see anything in my News Group account so I deleted it but I began to receive mails re...more >>

Hi, I am running Windows 2000 pro with IIS 5.0, i have been using IIS as per normal testing my ASP web pages offline for some time now with SP3. I decided last night to upgrade to SP4 which was seemless, except for when i tried to access an ASP page or my local host (http://localhost/si...more >>

Hello, I've got an issue that's been bugging me for some time now and I was wondering if anyone here has come across this before or know of a way to diagnose what the problem is. Here's the scenario: We've got 3 web sites running in IIS on a Windows 2000 Server. The websites uses DCOM to con...more >>

Sorry for this, but I am confused. Got my website running under Server 2003 and IIS, however my website shows directly under the group "websites" in IIS under it's own name, as well as one layer deeper under "Default Web Site" Apparently Frontpage updates both, but the reason why I am confused is...more >>