Hi there.. Currently I'm having a problem setting up a site on my laptop, which is used solely for developement. It seems that even though I create an application for a directory, the application is still able to go back to wwwroot, which apparently is the root! On any of the server IIS thi...more >>

Does anyone know why my asp site (or even the default page) for my IIS server gives me a "The page cannot be displayed" ? I can access the site from my other networked machine. I have 2 machines with a dlink router. It was working a couple of weeks ago and the only change I did was to add t...more >>

Hi, I am working with an automated deployment of iis 6 to several servers, and have run into a problem. While it is easy to automate the deployment of iis, I am not able to figure out how to automatically perform post-install tasks, such as setting up default applicatioon pools and logging direc...more >>

My PC is running XP Professional... IIS was doing fine serving pages with the help of some friends here with a know Norton bug and IIS. A few of the technicians at my job told me that I should switch from Norton's Anti-Virus/Firewall package to McAfee's products. So, I did so. Now this same is...more >>

Hi, I have my website on IIS 6 on a Windows 2003 server. I wanted to do a redirect to a url and made the change in IIS. I then changed my mind and put it back to the default which points to the folder on the hard drive. But now when I go to my site in a browser, somepages are still tryiong to l...more >>

Hi, I try in IE : http://localhost/test.html but it results in "The page can not be found" (C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test.html --> no problem) Checking in IIS : All sites on my PC are stopped (Default Web Site, Default FTP Site, ...). OK. So I try to restart IIS but it just won't restar...more >>

Hi Some of the pages on my server are displaying a strange line of text above the pages. It does not show up on all of them and it is as follows: (HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:12:24 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 Content-type: text/html Page-Completion-St...more >>

I set up my WMS and IIS together as shown in the Knowledgebase article. Now, some of the web sites get thru, while others get forwarded to WMP instead? Why only some? All of the sites have IPs directly assigned. ...more >>

HI-- I have a colocated Win 2000 box with IIS. I want to use the IIS Migration Tool to copy the remotely-located sites to my local Win 2003 box. I have no LAN connection to this box. I get an error RPC Server Not Available or something like that. The documentation says that you must firs...more >>

IIS only serving asp pages and not serving html, htm... file No error in event log. ASP files runs correctly. All updates and patches already loaded.??? HELP kayafatih76@yahoo.com...more >>

My PC is running XP Professional... IIS was doing fine serving pages with the help of some friends here with a know Norton bug and IIS. A few of the technicians at my job told me that I should switch from Norton's Anti-Virus/Firewall package to McAfee's products. So, I did so. Now this same i...more >>

Is there a way to manually uninstall IIS. I keep getting errors when I try to uninstall via the setup file for option pack 4. TIA, Terry ...more >>

I've some questions about setting up an IIS server. 1) XP or Server 2003? Application: mnimal webpage serving, VPN, some e-mail; a small business setting, Server 2003, w/AD. 2) In my DMZ, behind a cable modem, infront of a router. Two NICs to pass the internet connection from the mo...more >>

well my internet wont play mp3 files when its on the web page but when i minimize the page then sho it again it plays and i dont kno what is wrong...more >>

I've just done a complete, fresh install of XP Pro from my Toshiba notebook CD's. I now need to install IIS prior to some development tools, but the files dont appear to be anywhere on the CD. Is there anywhere online I can download the necessary files tpo complete the install?...more >>

O/s : Windows XP Professional. IIS Installed. However the Web Service fails to run. I have checked on SERVICES window. "World Wide Web Publishing" is there, marked "automatic" but fails to start, even if you re-try. I have tried the following: (A) Go to Services. Click on the Service : "Wo...more >>

Hi, I m a newbie to this...I created an asp file n placed it in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ . when i attempt to access the file locally (" 127.0.0.1\default.asp "), a dialog box appear prompting me for a user name and password. I tried entering my account name n password but still could not acces...more >>

when pressing [+] on the Internet Information Services item, an error shows: "A non-fatal error occurred. Not all available information may be displayed". I press OK, and the tree opens. I can open Default web site. Now, my erroneous Site is nowhere to be seen. The virtual directory can...more >>

when pressing [+] on the Internet Information Services item, an error shows: "A non-fatal error occurred. Not all available information may be displayed". I press OK, and the tree opens. I can open Default web site. Now, my erroneous Site is nowhere to be seen. The virtual directory can...more >>

I have a problem with a IIS6-machine, that is driving me crazy: Configuration: Win2003 Server, 1 GB RAM, IIS6, all updates & patches applied. The problem is that uploading large files to this server does not work: neither using a script (PHP or ASP) nor using Webdav. When the upload (from...more >>

Tried to install IIS 5.0 on win2kpro. No luck; pws and iis manager don't appear! Any suggestions? I have done this before on the same system and it worked....more >>

After we moved to Windows server 2003, I can't publish to the IIS server without getting the following message: Server error:unable to access configuration for Microsoft Internet Information Server Prior to the upgrade, everything was working fine. Any help would be appreciated. Our IT...more >>

After upgrading to Server 2003 I get the following error when trying to publish to our intranet IIS server: unable to access configuration for Microsoft Internet Information Server Our IT people have not been able to resolve the problem...more >>

I accidentally created a new site under Default Web Site with the same name as a virtual directory. The MMS console crashed/vanished and after reopening the Default Web Site was gone. Rebooted the machine, and Default Web Site was back. But, when pressing [+] on the Internet Information Servi...more >>

I have a Chinese client who's site data is in UTF-8 format. I can get the ASP pages to display chinese without problem using the 'content-type' meta tag. However, plain text email is proving more problematic. The unicode strings that make up the message body are in the format: "這&#26...more >>

Where can I start looking to solve a "what I think is a " DNS problem. I have an static IP that will resove fine by using http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx when I try to resolve with http://domainname.com it fails... I have port 80 open and my DNS points to my internal IP... is there a settign in IIS ...more >>

We've got several developers adding virtual directories to our Windows 2000 servers as they work on various projects. They are supposed to maintain a page that contains links to all the projects on the various servers, but in with the pressure of deadlines this step is frequently overloo...more >>

Hi, i have a site running on IIS5.1 with a few ISAPI extensions. These extensions produce HTML output from a SQL Server database. This has been running on NT4.0 and IIS4.0. Now my customer has upgraded to Win2000 server (IIS5), and is now experiencing Internel Server errors (occasionally, not ...more >>

how can i do for don't starting IIS on Windows 2000 Server when PC restart ?? Thanks Sergio ...more >>

I have moved 40 (or so) websites over to an IIS 6.0 box running FrontPage 2002 extensions from IIS 5.0. Out of the 40 sites I moved, 4 are causing me great grief! In those 4 webs, I can add new files, and modify those new files. In the sub webs of those 4 I can modify all files. *BUT* in ...more >>

All, We have the following problem. We uninstalled IIS 5.1, then reinstalled it. Now as a result, we get the following error each time we try to start the World Wide Web Publishing Service: could not start the World Wide Web Publishing Service on Local Computer. Error 3:The system can no f...more >>

Dear all: I got this error in my application log: Source : Active Server Pages Event ID: 5 Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Application Pool" AppPoolName: because of the following error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The...more >>

I have seen a lot of discussion on this forum about this problem. We are experiencing this on an Intranet server where memory footprint of one our dllhost.exe processes gradually expands until it either runs out of memory or is unloaded Two points that we wish to make in connection with this proble...more >>

In the IIS admin tool, when we try to administer fpse 2002, an error comes which says, the server application error and check the event log for more details. In the system log of event viewer, get a warning message event id 36 source w3svc message -The server failed to load application '...more >>

hi, can anyone tell the steps to change the CGI timeout in the IIS 6 manager on windows 2003 server...more >>

Hi all, I'm about to implement a .NET-based system that would contain a web-service running on a IIS server. Since I'm fairly new to IIS, I would like to know which windows versions contains a IIS server? Can IIS be installed on older windows versions that don't have IIS, e.g. Windows 98? Or ...more >>

HI, I have just installed Win NT Server on at Netfinity 5500. I have upgraded to FP 6.0. I am now trying to install the option pack that comes with NT Server but it keeps coming up with unable to detect OS when going through the setup. I tells me it hasnt been tested with FPs greater than V4...more >>

Using XP Pro with Zone Alarm Pro and Norton Anti Virus. I can access http://localhost/winxp.gif and default htm file which I created. But when I try to access any asp files (iisstart.asp, localstart.asp) I get this error message on IE6: Server Application Error The server has encountered an error ...more >>

I cannot get ASP pages to serve out using the Default Application Pool. If I set the Default App Pool to run under the Local System identity, then they work fine. This is on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition. I have set all the permissions to what they should logically be set to, but still no...more >>

Hi there, I hope somone can help me... When I try to get a web-page with an IP-address I get this error: <-- cut --> The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. ---------------------------...more >>

When request is initiated at the client system, the Web Server may take tens of second to couple of minutes, Mean while user gets annoyed and cliks Refresh Button several times. "Is it Possible to know Response time of the web server before it starts work on Request.?" So that the user can be no...more >>

Whenever I make changes to webpages on my IIS 5.1 server, IIS whips out an older version of the page, presumably from some hidden cache folder. When i create a new page, i can view it correctly the first time, but any subsequent changes that i make to it are ignored by the server. It'...more >>

Hi - I've found on the MS website an article about migrating from IIS 4 to IIS 6 but what about IIS5 to IIS6 ? I've got a ASP application which in future may need to go on a Windows 2003 box - can anyone help with a reference to such an article ? thanks richard....more >>

Is there and limitations of IIS on XP Home from XP Pro....more >>

Not sure what happened to the first post - attempting to post again... In response to Tim Coffey's request to start a new thread, here is the IISState log and my original post. Cheers Ken ============================== <my previous post> I was wondering if someone from MS could commen...more >>

Hi I have created an IIS app using VB6. This runs ok on the dev PC with VB6. I then install using an installer to a Win 2000 server and I end up with the error below. I have also tried on another machine with similar problems. I have made sure that the correct runtimes are installed and I h...more >>

Hi I have created an IIS app using VB6. This runs ok on the dev PC with VB6. I then install using an installer to a Win 2000 server and I end up with the asp error below. I have made sure that the correct runtimes are installed and I have tested the code on the target PC using another app to...more >>

Hi I have created an IIS app using VB6. This runs ok on the dev PC with VB6. I then install using an installer to a Win 2000 server and I end up with the error below. I have made sure that the correct runtimes are installed and I have tested the code on the target PC using another app to ensur...more >>

Any help at all. New DELL XP Pro laptop IIS 5.1 server is running soon as i open IE session and try http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 nothing... 20-30 minutes later.. still deciding what to do.. no error msg or nothing.. occasional.."can not find server" pinging both localhost and IP ad...more >>

Hi, I'm searching for a way to implement an object that is called, when a WebDAV-request hits my server. My idea was to implement a storage using SQL-Server that's able to be accessed by WebDAV-enabled clients. My hope was a similar way like ASP for normal HTTP-Requests, where I can setup a sc...more >>