I once had an edit button from my browser. I have updated FP Extensions and then had to remove ext from site. I later re-added them. Now my browser edit button is grayed out. I had this happen on a subweb before but never the root web. The subweb I deleted and recreated, shouldn't have...more >>

Can't use custom ASP ActiveX components in IIS 6.0. Getting error "ActiveX component can't create object" when using Server.CreateObject("...") in ASP. When I use the same code running vbs script file on Administrator account - the CreateObject method works fine. I've played with Application...more >>

Hi, Anyone know how to adjust the date format in IIS 5.1 (Windows 2000 Professional Portuguese) for ASP pages ? I try to use the document "306044 - INFO: Behavior of Date/Time Format Differs When Accessed from Active Server Pages" at support.microsoft.com without sucess. I would like to con...more >>

I want to make housing in a ISP with a machine with W2003 Server. I have a question. What is better, a domain server or a independant server? I want hosting a lot of domains in the server with a lot of users, each one to their domain. I know that windows 2003 (1 host) can´t be do domain contro...more >>

I have a directory under wwwroot called 'test'. In IIS5 or IIS6, if I change the Default Web Site Properties to "A redirection to a URL" in the Home Directory tab to /test, the 'test' directory is no longer listed in the IIS Manager for 2003. I can however see the 'test' directory in a iis5.0...more >>

I wrote a simple script to query the content indexing status of all the web directories in our default web site. The query returned status for directories that no longer exist (and ceased to exist quite some time ago) and failed to return status for several directories that currently do e...more >>

Hi, I am trying to create a list of new sites using IIS ADSI scripts, however all my default applications (for each web site) Execute Permissions are set to "None" and I cannot find out any where how to change them to "Script Only" using IIS ADSI. I've now managed to change the application prot...more >>

I'm cross-posting this from dotnet.framework because I'm desparate, frankly. Apologies ahead of time to those who abhor such behavior. I have a default web site in IIS, maps to http://localhost. From Visual Studio, I create a new web application, save it to http://localhost/myApplication. I...more >>

Hello, If IIS is installed on an ADS, then, after depromoting the ADS, the IIS users (IUSR_machine name, IWAM_machine name) are recreated and there is a event log indicating the same. Are there any known problems if these users are re created again? Please help. With Thanks in advance, Ramy...more >>

Trying to configure SMTP to send out email using my ISP. Email is generated by asp app using cdosys. Any suggestions or direction toward this type of configuration?? Regards, Khaled ...more >>

I have a little issue that I'd like to find a fix for. A have a web server that is a member of a development domain (yes, I know that having web servers being members of domains isn't generally a good idea). I have a web site on this server that is set to use basic authentication. I've create...more >>

The W3SVC has crashed 2x in the last 24 hours. Reboot is required to bring it back online. I am looking for help decoding the errors logged in event viewer. First error reads: The server stop serving requests for application '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT' because the number of Out of Process com...more >>

Hi folks, we are consolidating and migrating to Win2003 and i tried to add numerous users to the new servers. i used the new dsadd -user command like this. dsadd user CN=user00001 -display Web-User -pwd hispassword -desc WWW-User-blabla -canchpwd no -acctexpires never.. I have Win200...more >>

ok - i have a customer that wants to put blogs on their website - how do I allow this on an IIS 5.1 server? what software do I need for him to call? thanks...more >>

Hello, I have a very simple situation. I installed an export of an MTS package onto my web application server. I call the remote object from within an .asp page, through IIS of course, which is set to Windows Authentication security. When I call the object, the remote server, where the obj...more >>

Hi, I am having real problems here, probably because I am not a web guy but got put on the project anyways. Correct me at any time. It is IIS5 web server and configuration are all defaults.. The web page uses java or .js I created a new folder under wwwroot\test. I set the home dire...more >>

Dear all, I have created a form that used a DCOM to search data and display to the user; Before I use IIS 4.0 and it work well. However, after I upgrade the IIS to IIS5.0, the page cannot work due to the code " server.createobject("Info8.Document") ". I have checked my DCOM by using "dcom...more >>

I get a repeated error in my System Log which reads: "IIS Logging unable to create directory. The data is the error." Any ideas why we get this? Just upgraded to Windows 2000 from NT 4.0. Thanks. Robert O....more >>

Why does the IIS5.0 log file on my win2k server contain a querystring in the URI Stem field? See the line below: #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 #Version: 1.0 #Date: 2003-02-24 00:31:50 #Fields: date time c-ip cs-username s-ip s-port cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-...more >>

All, I have two webservers with Windows 2000 Server. Both have IIS5.0 installed. I have several sites on each server. In the last few days the servers started crashing IIS and everytime I go to a website that uses ASP it shows " HTTP 500 - Internet Server error". When I login to the s...more >>

Is this the right place to ask migration questions? ...more >>

Hey all, I posted the other day, but I think I need to provide more info. I need to create a "pass through" server for IIS. Our IIS server accesses domain resources through UNC (such as the file server where the .dll's write uploaded files), and it also interacts with our SQL Server. I need t...more >>

Hi I have a simple piece of code that get the persons username and then queries the domain for there full name. We were on a RM connect 2 system before and the code worked fine. Now though when after we switched to a 2000 domain system without RM I can not retrieve the details. This is the...more >>

Which Process do I use for the PID? Is there one for ASP scripts and others for other scripts? (If so - what's the ASP script process I should use). TIA...more >>

I have a web site that's using php on apache to dynamically display folder contents... That is, I've created a script that is displayed if there isn't a default document in the folder itself. My default documents in Apache are in this order: index.htm index.html index.php /_Script/_index...more >>

We are receiving upon the following error when our server is starting W2k server. This error only occurs at boot up time. Event ID: 115 Source: W3Svc The service could not bind instance 1. I've looked for a solution and performed the corrective action, but none of our websites hav...more >>

I am not sure if this question should be asked here. If not, please let me know. I am trying to run a web server on my local machine with IIS on Win 2000. I have two errors unexpected. * http://localhost is not working. It has to be http://MyNetworkDomainName in order to bring up the page....more >>

Hoping someone can shed some light. My IIS server is having an attack of shyness whereby http:// https:// and ftp:// traffic DOWN is painful (5 - 6 kb/s) while ftp:// uploads are about 1.5 mbit. Anyone suggest where to go with troubleshooting this. Have rebooted, restarted firewall, che...more >>

I have windows 2000 server, IIS 5 and I am trying to use Internet connector license so that users can authenticate to the AD before getting access to the server. I tried looking up everywhere with no success. I have put the server in per seat mode. I have created a group and given the use...more >>

can i integrated 2 web server in 1 computer ? current we have 1 web server which using windows 2000 server. we wanna add another one new web server but can we do it in 1 computer only? hopefully if we can be helped. some more, any hardware or anything we need to integrate it ?? thanks a lo...more >>