Hi, I already have my own domain that I purchased some time ago, and I've been hosting it through an online hosting company. I've recently decided to start my own IIS server on my Windows 2000 Pro machine. I'm trying to see if this will work for me so I can purchase a machine to dedicate as my we...more >>

IIS V 5.1 on new installation of XP Pro. does not respond. All tests indicate that the server is listening, but it does not respond to requests from the browser, or from telnet prompt. Based on port scan port 80 as well as others are listening. Please advise. Thanks in advance....more >>

When attempting to run inetmgr, the following error appears: "Snap-in failed to initialize. Name:<unknown> CLSID:{A841B6C2-7577-11D0-BB1F-00A0C922E79C}" Reinstalling IIS through add/remove windows components does't solve anything....more >>

Hello, I am using II6 with windows 2003 standard edition. IIS don't seems to be working fine. When I try to browse any ASP file, I always get a 404 error message. I installed PHP which is now working fine but ASP giving error. ASP is also allowed in web services extensions. Permissions on ...more >>

Is there a way or a little program that can show in a window (or a popup) on the desktop few real time information on the visitor on my website server (IIS5.1) like IP, domain, etc...) ? ...more >>

I am running IIS5 on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server SPIII box and IIS stops working after a day or so. In 'services' World Wide Web Publishing service is still started and running and so is IIS Admin service is still up and running. As far as I know, no services has been stopped. The only thing i...more >>

I have windows 2000 server with sp 2 installed on my=20 pentium III 800 mhz, and i installed iis for be used with=20 webmatrix and when a try to see a aspx page with iis its=20 says that there is a problem with the aplication and in=20 the succes view(visor de sucesos) i guess is like this in=20...more >>

Hello all-- I am having trouble diagnosing a problem I am having with my IIS6/windows2003 box. I am experiencing 100% CPU usage quite often. It will happen once or twice an hour, CPU usage will shoot up to 100% and stay there for about 5 minutes. I can not figure out what is causing this. ...more >>

Hello all-- I am having trouble diagnosing a problem I am having with my IIS6/windows2003 box. I am experiencing 100% CPU usage quite often. It will happen once or twice an hour, CPU usage will shoot up to 100% and stay there for about 5 minutes. I can not figure out what is causing this. ...more >>

I'm running IIS 5.1 on my Windows XP Pro development machine. The ASP page I am working on locally uses VBScript with ADO to get a bunch of data via SQL queries from a SQL Server 2000 server that is on a remote web host. The web host sometimes is very slow, so then the queries take a really lon...more >>

Hi all, my problem is the following. I want to run Apache and IIS on the same machine. Whereas Apache strictly binds to only those IPs I assign to it, IIS always binds to the address I assign to it, plus it returns the following nice message on all other addresses: "No web site is configur...more >>

When I migrate an asp.net application from a dev server to a production server, the asp.net pages don't work any more. for example, login.aspx page will come out, but when u fill the fields and click the submit button, you will get error message like: The page cannot be found The page...more >>

Hello, How can I configure the IIS, so it will be for intranet use only ? I want to make a server, since I am using the .NET technology, and accessing the database, whatever it is (I am using the *.aspx, *.asmx etc...). So I am making a web server via the IIS, but I want that making the IIS W...more >>

We have a web server running Win2k server and IIS 5.0 (complete with all service packs) set up in a DMZ using a Sonicwall Pro230 firewall. We are experiencing a delay of approximately 20 seconds between requesting a web page and it actually arriving at the browser. From monitoring the server it app...more >>

Hi there, Just wanting to have someone clarified for me this "edit- while-running" feature in IIS6. So far, I have read that if you have "edit-while-running' enabled. The administrator can just update the metabase.xml or other configuration without requiring a restart of IIS. These articl...more >>

I have a new problem... Whenever I try to access the OWA I get The specified module could not be found. If I try to go to the logout script I get the same thing and If I try to log into the Administration website it prompts for a user and password but then gives the same error. The default websit...more >>

Hi, We currently use IIS5 (on a local W2K PC) to develop and test our ASP applications, but we're shortly moving to ASP.Net. My question is whether we can continue to use IIS5 as a testbed (IIS6 has been introduced to the live server) or do we need to install IIS6 (on our local PC)? If we c...more >>

I have a server with NT and IIS with the following behaviour: Every time I logs off of the server the www service also stops I can start the service remotely (using Server Manager) and the service starts correctly but the same behaviour ocurs if I logon and the log off of the server. Any advise is ...more >>

I have the following problem: When CDO for Windows 2000 or CDO NTS 1.2 send an Email I want to forward it to a particular email address if it's undelivered (it hasn't reached the destination address) I want to send it to a particular email adress with a undelivered Notification.Is There a proper...more >>

Is there a way, either through scripting or IIS (6.0) configuration, to redirect all traffic for one of my domains to the same path/file/parameters on a second domain? E.g.: http://www.olddomain.org/path1/path2/file.htm?opt=1 ....becomes... http://www.newdomain.com/path1/path2/file.htm?o...more >>

Hello, We have recently upgraded some servers from using IIS 4.0/NT 4.0 to IIS 5.0/Windows 2000. When we went to IIS 5.0/Windows 2000, we added additional servers into our setup and created new CSR from those servers and installed the returned Verisign certificates so those servers. Since moving ...more >>

When I to configure a new web site and receive a error: cannot creat folder "_vti_pvt". Thanks for your help gurusam...more >>

Put simply IIS will not serve http request from one of it's virtual sites to another. The long story is this. I have windows 2000 server/IIS 5 set up and running fine in conjuction with Coldfusion. I have IIS serving around a dozen or so "multiple identities" as IIS calls them. Most of th...more >>

Greetings, Currently running the eval of Windos 2003 Enterprise and about to install one copy of Standard edition. I'm confused as to what can be done as far as Network Load Balancing / Clustering in Standard edition. I know you can't do server clustering but on page 13 and 17 of Getting St...more >>

I'm not really sure of all of the version numbers for IIS and Server 2000. I'm extremely new to all of this. All I'm trying to do is to Configure IIS. Everytime that I open (SQL XML Support in IIS) and try to connect to my server I get the Error: Server does not exist or is not available. I'm...more >>

Hi! Could anyone please explain how I can do the following on a Windows2000 server machine? I would like to be able to allow access to some directories on a web site (using IIS) based on a plain text file (located in a secured directory of course) containing a list of users and passwords. ...more >>

I receive this error (http 500 internal server error) on my default web site but not on my admin web site. Further testing revealed that I cannot open ASP pages on the default web site but I can open ASP pages on the admin web site. Does anyone have ideas what can be done to correct th...more >>

I get this weird error everytime I try to acces my web site from frontpage: "Server error" Error 2 opening registry key 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Ports\Port 80'" At first I thought this had something to do with frontpage server extentions so I reinstalled ...more >>

Quick One: Can I create a dns entry for www2.whatever.com and have it resolve correctly. I need to use an existing registered domain name to host another site for a short duration without registering another domain name. thanks ...more >>

Hello, My IIS 5.0 server hosts multiple websites and sits behind our ISA server firewall. When I look at the IIS logs, my source IP is the internal address of my ISA firewall. My understanding of ISA is that incoming web requests are treated just like outgoing and use the Web proxy te...more >>

Hi all, I'm getting HTTP error 500 "internal server error" on my web server (winNT4.0 SP6 - IIS 5). This happened after installing CA e-Trust Antivirus after a virus attack on that PC. I found that rundll32.exe file was not present and I copied it back again from another winNT machine. I jus...more >>

I have a situation where I need both Dynamic and Static compression for all virtual directories... except one. Is it possible to NOT compress a single website/virtual directory? Thank you....more >>

Is there a way to limit what sites within the IIS MMC that administrators can view/edit if your web server has multiple sites? The problem is with three consultations we have, they sometimes make changes within IIS that conflicts with each other. I have the local NTFS permissions under control wher...more >>

Hi, We are running e2k server with sp3 on a w2k member server with sp3 on a Poweredge 2400 with 512 MB RAM, P III 800 Mhz dual processor, RAID 5 server. Suddenly inetinfo.exe is taking more memory than store.exe. Previously it was taking only 30 to 35 MB of physical memory. Now it is taking ...more >>

I have tried to install the Web Administration for IIS but cannot seem to get it. It comes up with the error message that the script used to install the package is corrupt and installation cannot complete. Is there a download on the MS site that contains the HTML Web Admin for IIS or is th...more >>

Hello, Is there a program that can create a traffic report for all the virtual servers on an IIS server? I want to be able to generate a monthly traffic reports (in megabytes) for all my virtual servers and put it in a database. Something like this: virtualserver1 month x MB...more >>

Hello, I hope this newsgroup will work for my question... I migrated a website (fp2002 web) from one IIS5 server to another IIS5 server (2 websites are located on this box...each on separately bound IP addresses). The migration process was to create a new virtual site on the destination s...more >>

Hi, i'm trying to download a ZIP file from an IIS server, but internet explorer reports an error. (Cannot download <file> from <server>) The Content-Type header that is sent with the file contains: application/x-zip-compressed When i downloade the zip file from another server the content-type w...more >>

We are running a web application with an Oracle 8.1.7.4 back end. The servers are running Win2k. We have recently installed MDAC2.7 sp2. We are currently testing MDAC2.8 and will install this as soon as possible. In the meantime, we are seeing several causes of IIS hangs. One has already ...more >>

Apache has a feature where you can specify a file (e.g. .header.html) to be the file that shows up at the top of a page when giving a directory listing. Does anyone know of a way to provide this same functionality in IIS? TIA for any ideas. Todd ...more >>

Hi Everyone, Recently my IIS link in admin tools will not open the iis control panel. I have been doing asp development on the machine for some time so it seems odd this problem has all of a suden happened. I read somewhere a file (iis.mcs?) could be corrupt? Does anyone know how to fix it? M...more >>

Hello, I would like to have a link on a web page that will install our own Root CA certificate for whatever browser is being used. MS has the pages to do it, but I'm told it's complicated to create this link on a new customized page. Can any one help? Thanks in advance, Matt ...more >>

Hello, Does anyone know of a way, in a WSH script, to determine if there are any active FTP sessions on an IIS server? We have a server that does a huge amount of FTP, and we are trying to write a script that we can schedule that will check for active FTP connections, if none are found, reb...more >>

Hi Gurus, I am wondering if I can setup 1) multiple ftp/www servers on One machine for different customers and also 2) allow them to add/remove user/passwords. I know the 1st condition should not be a problem, please let me know if you have any thought about 2) and point me to some link i...more >>

Most FTP servers have this feature. I have anonymous downloads but want to limit anonymous IUSR_SERVER to 2 ip's per session. Can this be done on IIS 6? Does RestrictAnonymous have anything to do wiht it? Where can I create this rule?...more >>

running winXP, logged on as admin i recently installed MS SQL 2000 and now IIS cant run any ASP pages my other PC works fine and what ive noticed is that in my services the COM+ service is not running and when i try to run it, i get an error saying some file cannot be found (im not at my PC ...more >>

I recently installed ASP.net quick tutorials in my machine, which installs the ASP.NET engine among other things. I already had IIS 5 running with regular ASP pages, but now I tried running my regular ASP pages and they do not seem to come up. Can I run ASP and ASP.NET under the same IIS server, or...more >>

We have just set up a new server running Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6) and have an asp web app that kicks off threaded processes. The problem I'm having is that the process (running under w3wp.exe and user IWAM_MachineName which is a member of IIS_WPG) will only utilize 50% of the cpu. If ...more >>

I have been using IIS on Windows XP Pro for over a year with no problems. I then went to the Microsoft site to locate any patches that I might need and installed those recommended. This totally screwed up IIS. I am now getting the above error when I try to run my local ASP pages. I have read...more >>

This is the error message I have been recently getting on my server. Any help would be highly appreciated. The server failed to load application ". The error was: 'The specified metadata was not found.'. Thanks....more >>

Hi, I have an ASP page including another ASP page using the SSI include directive. I would like to provide a custom built querystring to the included page. Like so: <!-- #include virtual = "tabs.asp?page=main" --> But I get the folowing error: Active Server Pages, ASP 0126 (0x80004005...more >>

We have IIS 5.0 running on Windows 2000 Server. We have multiple websites. On most we have successfully configured server extensions and running "Chesk Server Extensions" shows no errors. On one however we get the error:The server administration programs and the server extensions on the web server ...more >>

I have Windows 2000(sp4) with Exchange 2000(sp3) I get event 10010 The server A9E69610-B80D-11D0-B9B9- 00AC922E750 did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. The GUID points to the IISADMIN service, I have not found any fixes for this problem. Also I think it is causing a ...more >>

Hi group, I'm looking for scripts to audit and control most any aspect of IIS 4/5 (perhaps even 6). Here's a typical question: give me a list of all directories that are restricted by domain/IP address range. Can someone point me to a good source for these scripts on the Web, or perhaps j...more >>

Hello, i habe a question concerning the function to change the password via IISADMPWD, the function which is also included within Exchange Server 5.5. The features works well if there are only alphanumeric characters in the username, a problem occurs when a dot "." is included in the username...more >>

I have to publish a web site on an IIS machine but I'm getting no where. My initial instructionw where to "copy all the files into the wwwroot directory and it will work fine then" but no such luck. I have absolutely no knowledge of IIS and any other general kowledge I have tried to apply has been...more >>

I am a web application developer that is constantly working on several projects at a time. In the past I have used Windows 2000 Server so that I could set up multiple webs in IIS at the same time. I would like to be able to use Windows XP Pro as the OS on my development machine, but the II...more >>

ops.. I thought it was an italian web site!! I have 2 problems with IIS and my site: 1)When a user push a button on the web page it launches an exe program (done in visual basic) and instead of running appears a little window for the download of the file asking if open o save. How can I do t...more >>

I am having problems getting my IIS service to stop. It tries for a long time and even goes through the process of trying to stop the WWW service and other dependencies. When it gives up it just gives a generic message that it was unable to stop the service. Unfortunately, the service i...more >>

I cannot test the ASP page that I created in FrontPage. I have installed Server Extentions and IIS on my local computer under Windows XP Pro. I have published the pages under C:\ ... \WebRoot or something like that. But what do I need to do make the pages connect to IIS? Why isn't there a...more >>

Hello, I'm deploying a site with Dreamweaver. I want to display some Flash buttons, but IE doesn't show them through IIS (I use IIS 5.0 SP4). When I type http://localhost/Mypage.htm, the buttons just don't appear and IE gets stuck looking for them. However, when I access the page locall...more >>

Hi I am using MS Win2K Advanced Server with IIS. After setup, the page cannot be displayed when I connected to http://localhost/ The error shown on the page is : Error Type: Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A0046) Permission denied: 'GetObject' /localstart.asp, line 18 When I check the...more >>

Hello, Running IIS6 on W2k3 server. I have downloaded and intalled via Windows update the final version of the Windows Sharepoint Services. The Team Services website is working OK so far, but the sites that were previously working, which are virtual directory's of the 'default web site' do ...more >>