Hello, I'm having extremely weird problems with a COM component I wrote myself in perl. These are the facts: I have two machines running Windows 2000 SP4 with IIS5 with all the security patches installed. I wrote a COM .dll in perl and registered it on both machines. I tried to instantia...more >>

Hi All.. Just a question regarding an IIS V5 server. We have a site that has some ASP pages that require SSL. I have installed the certificate etc which is working as expected, but When we update the page that is called via https, the NEW page is never displayed, just a previous one. Also...more >>

Hi All.. Just a question regarding an IIS V5 server. We have a site that has some ASP pages that require SSL. I have installed the certificate etc which is working as expected, but When we update the page that is called via https, the NEW page is never displayed, just a previous one. Also...more >>

I want to set something straight for myself. ISAPI extensions get up to 2 times the number of threads as there is physical RAM in the system with a maximum of 256. So probably every modern (server) system gets 256 threads. Is this per ISAPI application or per site? Where does ASP come in? They h...more >>

Is it possible to compile a virtual directory which is pointed to location other than wwwroot? Any help would be highly appreciated. - Gary ...more >>

IIS6 Windows server 2003. I have migrated an ASP application from a iis 5 server. The ASP app calls COM+ proxy services. I have installed the proxy service on the new 2003 machine and tested using a stanalone exe application and all functions fine. But when i run the ASP application i get th...more >>

Hi, I am going to start on a MS Project Server pilot on a Novell LAN environment. I have not done this before and would appreciate some help. The server OS will be Windows 2000 Server with IIS running. However, I am not sure what authentication model to specify for IIS virtual directory. The...more >>

I have an application that accesses a database through a IIS 4.0 Server The IIS server requires NT authentication. The database contains a list of people that when chosen by the user returns a URL of another IIS 4 server to the application. The application accesses the 2nd IIS server and...more >>

I am getting this error when submitting a form to my website. The page is definitely a HTML page and I have created forms before without this problem. Can anyone shed some light on this error? Cannot run the FrontPage Server Extensions' Smart HTML interpreter on this non-HTML page -- As ...more >>

I have a domain name for my domain, example: myDomain.com My company has two locations, each site has a Windows 2000 Domain Controller. In the first site, I set up an intranet through the IIS. So when someone types mydomain.com it gets to our intranet site. However in the second site, when...more >>

Hi, I am having a strange problem.I created a intranet Web application using windows authentication.All the users in the domain is able to access the site except one user.When i tried from his machine its not displaying the error messages I set custom error messages mode="On". Even then ...more >>

Using: XP Pro, IIS. This is a new install on a Dell Inspiron 5100. Scenario: HTML is served. ASP is not. Uninstalled and reinstalled IIS numerous times. Error: HTTP 500. I've read other posts and tried their solution, but to no avail. Any other input is greatly appreciated. I woul...more >>

The page cannot be displayed Cannot find server or DNS Error Internet Explorer I am having trouble with IIS 5.0 and McAfee. McAfee cannot or will not support me. I have a PC at home that is running Win2k Pro. I use this PC as anyone would, however, I also have loaded and use the IIS 5.0 ...more >>

Hello, Iam trying to add an entry to application configuration in IIS 5.0 and Windows XP. I want .htm/.doc/.pdf files to be processed by asp_isapi.dll. I have also checked these extensions have not been mapped yet. But the OK button in that dialog box is greyed out. What am I missing her...more >>

I am having trouble figuring out how to make an established metabase property (for example MD_ACCESS) drop its value and start inheriting from its parent using JScript. Anyone know how to make this happen?...more >>

Hey, I set up IIS 5.0 on a Win2000 Pro box doing local hosting for me. I'm trying to use CDONTS.NewMail in an ASP page to send a message out, but it's not working. The event viewer says that failure is because "remote server did not respond to a connection attempt." I haven't done any confi...more >>

Hi there I have a IIS 5 server with many vhosts. I would like to install one SSL certificate on the server wich I can use on all the sites. The certificate would be bound to the IP-adress of the mashine. I'm looking for; 1. Pointer to information. 2. Short discription on where I should i...more >>

Hi, We have recently upgraded our cluster of 4 machines from win2k to win 2003 severs. The cluster is running about 20 websites (18 asp.net & 2 asp) each in their own application pool, IIS6.0 is *NOT* running in IIS 5.0 compatability mode. It is now running really well about 50% of the cpu p...more >>

Am running an in-process ISAPI application under Windows 2000. Occasionally I get an access violation and have been trying to track the cause of this for a number of weeks. Anway yesterday we started to have an intermittent fault with our CISCO router which basically freezes for up to a ...more >>

Using IIS 5 and 5.1 I have a custom ISAPI filter. It has been thoroughly tested and is working correctly at a local web site level. However when I try to add the filter at a global level I am having problems. When I restart IIS, it chugs for a while and finally says that it could not be re...more >>

Hi, I have followed the instructions provided by several site on how to set a custom 500-100.asp page. I have created the new 500-100.asp page, which has some extras in it, notably emailing of error information. In IIS I then go to the global settings and custom errors. The new file i...more >>

I am running IIS 5.0 on W2K. W3SVC status is "Starting." I am unable to restart. I have also tried iisreset in WINNT\System32 but that cannot restart it either. This prevents me from connecting to my web host with Dreamweaver. Thanks for any suggestions! Steve...more >>

I'm trying to setup a webserver to host multiple web applications, trying to use vs.net 2003 locally and deploying to a remote webserver(Running Windows 2003) The problem I'm sitting with, is one where the user deploying his/her web app needs administrator rights to get the web app register...more >>

We are currently using a self-generated certificate on our IIS website. However, we need to request/install a new certificate from a certificate authority. We are having trouble figuring out how to request a new certificate without first removing our existing certificate. How can we req...more >>

At least every other day (sometimes multiple times a day), I get the 'Server too Busy' error message after performing a search. While stopping and restarting the Content Indexing service resolves the issue, I cannot seem to find why or how this is continuosly happening. The server is running Win...more >>

Hi, We have recently begun upgrading from IIS 5.0 to Windows 2003 and IIS 6.0 and we have had to rebuild all virtual directories with each upgrade. Is there anyway to export the metabase from IIS 5.0 and have it recognized by IIS 6.0? Thanks for any help, Chris...more >>

On a website I have running I get this message when I try referencing files held in a directory above the page I am working with: Server.MapPath() error 'ASP 0175 : 80004005' Disallowed Path Characters /admin/record-add.asp, line 139 The '..' characters are not allowed in the Path...more >>

Hi, I have a couple of hundred websites running on IIS5 (patches up to date with the last having been applied at beginning of July - MS03-018), and since an IIS restart this morning all of our database driven sites completely stop working every so often. They will run fine for a while, ...more >>

When I run the IIS-5 manager, select the web, pick all tasks, and select "Check Server Extentions" I get the following error. "MS Server Extensions"(The window name) The server administration program and the server extensions on the web server are not compatable. The administration prog...more >>