We have written an ISAPI filter on IIS 5.0 to verify presence of a cookie before letting the user access a resource. The resource is actually an isapi dll that takes in parameters. The actual user request is: http://myserver/myvirdir/myext.dll/param1 The virtual directory (myvirdir) has ...more >>

I have just installed the Windows Server 2003 Standard that I received with MSDN subscription. Almost everything works well but aspx support. All the service and applications server seems OK, but every file with .aspx suffix, also a file not present in the directory, return this error: Server ...more >>

Hello, I installed a test cert on a webserver. My problem is that if a client types https://box.domain.com the client tries to connect to the site using 80 ( i see it get blocked on my firewall) However if the client uses http://box.domain.com/ all is well. (notice the / at the the end) a...more >>

Hi Context: Machine : Windows XP IIS : 5.1 Service pack 1a + all of the winxp updates HTML pages works file. Asp pages gives an Internal Server Error, as if the page was not there. Everything is correct... urls, pages names, etc. Tryied to unsinstall and reinstall many times. Tryied to ...more >>

I'm trying to set up an ASP app to control and report on various services using ADSI on an XP Pro server. The code works as an EXE VB app but doesn't as an ASP VBScript app. What security context does an ASP app need to operate in to manipulate system services? Is that actually the problem or is ...more >>

I'm writing a database (SQL Server/VB.NET) application that is accessible over the internet. I need to be able to attach files to records in the database, and have those files easily read/writable through third-party software such as Microsoft Word. The perfect solution would be a VPN, a...more >>

win2k adv serv, iis5.0 new to this, so i noticed the default iis directory setup is inetpub/wwwroot/virtualWebDir, so i'm keeping that structure for my virtual websites i'm using host headers so when i set the default directory to inetpub/wwwroot/virtualWebDir, the default web page comes up ...more >>

Clicking on the Start button and nothing happens. The window Personal Web Manager indicates the service hasn't been started. In addition the World Wide Web Publishing Service is started as indicated in the Services window however I'm getting the folllowing error in my windows 2000 event ...more >>

I am getting this error in the event viewer: License usage for product IIS 5.0 is nearing the maximum number of per server licenses purchased. Consult License Manager from the Administrative Tools folder for more information. I have 80 Exchange Licenses and 100 Windows Server licenses. W...more >>

I have created a website using Frontpage 2002 and it is now running in my IIS webroot directory. When I created the page originally I merely saved it to the root directory rather than publishing it to the directory. It works fine on the WWW, but when I tried to add a hitcounter and look in the "...more >>

I have a webserver sitting in my dmz and it hosts a couple of webservices in particular some online calenders. The calenders allow people to submit new events to add to the calender, and then when they are approved the submitter is sent an email notifying them that their event was approved. The we...more >>

Has anyone had any problems updating the dotnet framework to 1.1 on a Windows 2000 machine? When I try to update it from the Windows Update page, it will get right up to 100% and then freeze. If I just download the file, and install from there, it gets halfway and stops. When it does this ...more >>

I have SSL on my server that is multihomed. I have 3 sites, mydomain1 (www.mydomain1.com), mydomain2 (www.mydomain2.com), mydomain3 (www.mydomain3.com). SSL is setup for www.mydomain1.com. I have seen a post here where someone wrote that SSL doesn't work on multihomed servers, ie using host h...more >>

Hello All, We are running IIS here. We are having problems running our Web Site in Secure Mode on the MAC/IE platform. This used to work until we SSL migrated our Verisign certificate to a new Web Server. We have basically come to a point where any ideas on how to fix this would be extremel...more >>

Hi there. Could someone please tell me how to control IIS from my workstation. I had seen something on this but I cannot find it now. ...more >>

I''m trying to run the following ASP code: Set objFile = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strImagePath = Server.MapPath("images/deletethis.jpg") If objFile.FileExists(strImagePath) Then objFile.DeleteFile(strImagePath) End If Set objFile = Nothing When I try to run it, IIS "st...more >>

We run into problems with OWA users trying to type in their email address in the username field of the iis authentication prompt I was windering if thier is a way to change the prompt's design...more >>

I know IIS 5.1 snap-in with Windows XP Pro does not have a way to add more than one web site with host headers or anything, but is there a way to do it without the snap-in interface? Perhaps edit a configuration file manually? Can I somehow install IIS 5.0 for Windows 2000 to work around...more >>

Hi, we just migrated our web server to a new server. And we are having a problem with order e-mails the server will stop at a line in the sendmail.asp page the line reads as follows set TempTags = Server.CreateObject("MC.TEMPTAGS") And the order will not be e-mailed to the customer. Any ...more >>

I am having a problem with both IIS 4 and IIS 5 on two separate boxes. IIS 4.0 --> When trying to access a web through IE I receive an error 500 -- Internal Server Error. When I check the Event Viewer the message reads: "Cannon open file "service.lck" for reading." IIS 5.0 --> When c...more >>

We have a new windows 2003 standard server. Partition is C:12GB D: 126GB E:126 Gb At first I installed Jrun on C, for I think JRun will connect with IIS which is on C. Now we have 7 GB in C. I wonder if I should have installed Jrun on D: instead of C: which is mainly for operating syste...more >>

I get this error in the event log. IIS logging was unable to create the file d:\data\logfiles\W3SVC1\ex030707.log The data is the error. Has anyone had this problem....more >>

I have a 'classic' ASP application on IIS5 that uses CDOSYS through the local SMTP server to send emails. It works fine until I include an attachment that is greater than 90k. The SMTP server uses an Exchange server as it's smarthost. There are no message size limits defined on SMTP or ...more >>

hi, has someone ever used this kind of home networking set up? I use a 500 year-old Windows 98 machine mainly as a primary storage space while I use newer Windows XP Pro machine to study ASP.NET. On this latter machine I run IIS 5.1 and ASP.NET 1.1. I tried to point the default web...more >>

Hi After a new install I have re-setup windows xp pro and=20 iis 5.0. Previously my default currency was =A3 it has now changed=20 to $ I have changed my default currency in Date,Time, language=20 and regional options but this has not altered my iis asp=20 pages. Any ideas on how to ...more >>

Once I have written here about my problem with constant attack at IIS server from Internet. But did not get correct answer. So the position is following: Windows 2000AS+IIS+Service Pack 4 When I first begin work with this server, there was SP2 only, and lots of messages in Application Log, fro...more >>

Hi all, My company want to develop another domain in 1 server which already exist. as i know, 1 domain or 1 web address is in 1 server, doesn't it ?? so the question is can we integrate 2 domain or 2 web address in 1 server ?? Does that situation can we apply at Windows 2000 Advanced Ser...more >>