Hi, Sorry, it may be a stupid question. But I cannot find the application pool setting in IIS manager. I only have "website" and "web server extension". I am using Windows 2003 Enterprise edition (Traditional Chinese) with latest service pack + web server installed + VS .NET 2003 installed +...more >>

We have windows 2000 server with IIS 5.0 installed on it, When I open any site which I have created in IIS, it prompt for login ID & Password,when I add IUSER account in local administrator group it works fine.Everyone has fullcontrol rights on security level on folder. I want to remove IU...more >>

I would like to host multiple domains on our w2003 server. We already host one site. We have a router and a firewall, and ip translation where the outside ip points to the servers ip port 80 on the inside. This works, but how do I translate the new domain so that it "lands" in the correct iis si...more >>

Howdy, Given the concerns of our senior engineer, only members of the systems group are added to the local administrators/domain admins group on our web servers. However, members of other groups still need to have the ability to restart IIS services via IISRESET using their domai...more >>

hi, after install latests windows patches and Microsoft ASP.NET ValidatePath module, IIS hangs sometimes every hour, somtimes every 12 hours. no blue screnn, no eventlog... Attached a Dump File with iisstate -p **** -hc -d -sc cannot created because inetinfo.exe still in process. any sug...more >>

Guys, I setup an FTP server inside of IIS. It works great on the network. I can test by looking to the local server and try my accounts and everything is great. I try it offsite and I get a error that says you may not have permission to access these files. I have tried everything. I ha...more >>

After shutting down the Web server and brought it backup the site will not start. When I manually click on the site to start, I receive an error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." I've. tried stopping and restarting services...still unsucessful....more >>

Hi All, IISLogs has released a free version of IISLogs log archive tool. This is similar (not as many features as full version IISLogs) but will monitor a specific directory, optionally delete the original log file, email reporting, alternative file location for zipped files and more. Th...more >>

I've strayed into this unfamiliar territory while trying to track down various problems (implicating some problem with WMI) on my XP Home (SP1) PC. Could someone here kindly advise me how to interpret and hopefully fix the following please. In Component Services (Run DCOMCNFG.EXE) I left click...more >>

I get this error when trying to start any web site. "The format of the specified network name is invalid." This happend after I installed the new security updates and restarted. Any help in getting IIS back online would be great. jc...more >>

I get this error when trying to start any web site. "The format of the specified network name is invalid." This happend after I installed the new security updates and restarted. Any help in getting IIS back online would be great. jc...more >>

Hi, I have a very simple task: run an EXE-file from an hyperlink in the browser - but I always get the error message: The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are: Unhandled exception: System.ArgumentException: Invali...more >>

Hi, We have need to run server based .vbs files and other OS commands through active server pages i.e... Set oShell = Server.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") oShell.Run("c:\somecmd.bat",,True) Under Windows 2000 the EVERYONE group had read/execute rights against cmd.exe. Under 2003 this has...more >>

I have multiple web sites on a Win2003 server. All sites are running. I am trying to enable one of the sites to use Frontpage Extensions. It comes back with a unresolved host name. Now the web site I am trying to enable is not under the default Inetpub folder. I did try moving it to that ...more >>

I have a current requirement to deny access to a particular website from a list of domains. I can add these domains to a deny list in IIS, however that doesn't give me the ability detect these domains and then redirect users to specific deny pages based on the domains to which they are members...more >>

In IIS 5.1, running Windows XP Pro... ...my default website disappeared from IIS Manager. I see nothing in the "Web Sites" Folder. I can still browse the website through the local host. I can still open my local web application with visual studio .NET. I can also still restart the ...more >>

Hello experts, Accessing http://localhost/, it returned "server application error". Then when I browse the admin tools, component services, computer, MMC closed suddenly. I wondered if IIS error is due to damaged com+. But when following the instruction to repair com+ by resinstalling Windows ...more >>

Hi, I've set up redirection as follows : www.site1.com redirects to www.site2.com which is on a different server. This works fine, but in doing so the address in the address bar reflects the new location. How can I set up such redirection but retain the original url in the address bar...more >>

Hello, I am using tomcat with SSL connection which is running fine, however I have a problem to download an excel files with internet Explorer. In fact I am using a servlet which stream data in the correct format to create an excel files. This servlet is working fine when I am executing it fr...more >>

I am new to IIS and I am trying to implement it up on a computer running WinXP in a small workgroup. I know IIS is running and my web pages are ok because the following web address executes when entered from a browser on the same computer: http://localhost/MyWebAp/MyWebPage.htm ...more >>