I am posting this again because my last post sort of had an out of body = experience. I noticed in my IIS Manager Windows 2000 SP3 that I had a new = application called RPC. It had a stop sign next to it saying it wasn't = working. I think that is good. I have had the RPC hotfix installed =...more >>

I noticed I had this as an application in my IIS Manager Windows 2000 = SP3. I have the RPC hotfix installed. Has been for quite some time. = Any way it had a Stop sign on it meaning it wasn't working. Thank = goodness I think. I am not using secure https. The location of this application...more >>

Hi all.. can anyone tell me if its possible to use the Posting Acceptor (CPSHOST.DLL) to upload files in IIS 6? We've been using it in IIS 5, no problem but cant get it to work in 6. Whenever I attempt to POST to this DLL, I just get a 404 eror. Heres the line in my IIs 6 log file. 200...more >>

Hello, We have IIS6 running on a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition server. For the past couple days, one of our application pools, named 'Secure' has been crashing often and at random times. It seems more concentrated in the afternoon, but it happens at any given time. I have several I...more >>

My company has developed an html emulator with a custom User-Agent. This has worked fine until Win server 2003 with IIS 6.0 came along. I not get a generic "400 Bad Request" from the server if I use this custom User-Agent in the HTTP header. If the User-Agent is changed to a more common Moz...more >>

My company has created an html emulator with a unique user-agent. Starting with IIS 6 I am blocked with a generic error 400 Bad Request. If I remove the User-Agent or replace it with a common Mozilla, I can get past ISS to the server app. Does IIS allow customer user-agents? Can it be conf...more >>

I have a Windows 2000 Server and its only purpose is to host a few websites using IIS 5. Naturally, I keep on the lookout for critical Windows Updates. If they happen to be IE security updates, I will install but will not reboot the server until I install other future updates. Is this bad po...more >>

I am trying to browse the localstart.asp from IIS just to test the installation and I am getting follwoing error: ------------------ The requested URL could not be retrieved -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While trying to retrieve the URL...more >>

Hi We are having this problem for a couple of months from now. We also have a support case open with PSS but have not found the exact problem and the nature of the problem. The IIS server seems to hang and causes some of sites to go down. In few cases we noticed that we cannot even login in to...more >>

Hi all, How to open file type .fld? Please help ...more >>

Hi all, I need to deploy a web site for a client and they need me to setup a web server for them. Besides the connections limitation, is there any reason I can't use WindowsXP Pro as a web server instead of the more expensive Windows 2000 server? Thanks. - Jeff...more >>

The Server in question was upgraded to Server 2003 and IIS 6.0. It seems that some of the Virtual Directories are missing and yet they show up in the Application Pool Foder. If you try to create a new Virtual Directory, it states that it is not a unique name. How do I get them back to being...more >>

We are going to get 2 new identical servers with Windows 2003 standard server and use NLB (Since clustering is not the way with IIS6.0 and 2003 Enterprise is so expensive) and we have a NetApp filer using iSCSI. We want to put the wwwroot on the NetApp and have the 2 servers with IIS6.0 and N...more >>

Hello, I have a strange problem here. I'm trying to implement URL string matching and for that I need to telnet to the IP address and get the webpage using 'GET' cmd and compare for matching strings. This works fine for port 80. but after connecting to the port 443 thru telnet, GET cmd does not...more >>

what is the html syntax that should be used if an html page is in the inetpub\wwwroot folder but it wants to pull an image or page from the inetpub\scripts folder ? trying ../scripts/file.gif or ..scripts/file.htm did not seem to work ( i thought that the '..' went 'up' one level as in DOS ...more >>

When I try to work on my company website I get the above message. I cannot even get into the site!! Can anybody help? I run Windows XP and hosting by Register.com using easysite wizard. Thank you. Sandie...more >>

Dows IIS 6.0 now offer any performance improvements when we mix asp and asp pages as a part of the same application (in terms of marshalling overheads)?...more >>

Where can I get a PHP install for IIS and how do I install it?...more >>