HI All After exuecution of any long script the sql server is not releasing System Cache memory which it used for processing of script. Bez of this system becomming slow, i am stopping and restarting sql server every time. After modfying the settings as per one of the KB articles reg MMC al...more >>

Using latest SP Win2k and .NET versions, I have a .NET application running on server1 with a SQL Server database running on server2. I have the Windows user account passwords sync'd for server1\aspnet (installed by .NET Framework and server2\aspnet (created by me--this machine has no .NET Frame...more >>

Hi all, I setup a web server with IIS6.0(SBS2003), and put .dat file in the virtual directory, but users can see this file from web browser but cannot download it. Would you please tell me how to let them download the .dat file? Kind regards Michael Tang...more >>

I have an IIS installed with windows 2003 Enterprise, the website connection limit is only 256. i found it using the performance monitor / Web service anonymous user I want to extend it but where i need to set it up, I think this has something to do with the license which limited to onyl 256 co...more >>

Hi The server is a co-located Xeon 3.0ghz. I am running win2003 with IIS6 and PHP 4.38. When I run a page with an embedded PHP script that generates simple output, it runs quickly when accessed via IE6 locally on the server, or at the co-location facility. When accessed from an outside ...more >>

Hello, is it possible to customize directory browsing page ? Regards Vittorio ...more >>

I have a No-IP Dynamic IP Address (too cheap to buy Static) and want to still have two web-sites running on two separate servers. Because I can't assign external Static IP Addresses to the two servers, does anybody know of a technology that can sniff what URL was originally typed in and using...more >>

Hi, I my websites keep crashing every 1-2 hours, in the event log I get the following error: A process serving application pool 'flensted' terminated unexpectedly. The process id was '2088'. The process exit code was '0xc0000005'. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://...more >>

Hi everybody, I have a website that is running on my Win2k box and it is using port 80. But I put another website under a different port 8080. When I go to the port 80 site it works fine but when I go to port 8080 I get again the website that is on port 80. Is there an auto forward feature o...more >>

Can some one tell me why my sbs 2003 iis5 server only has an option to Configure Frontpage 2002 Extensions on some of my sites and not others? I know the extensions are installed because the sharepoint website gives me the option to configure the fp extensions, but any new website I cre...more >>

I'm new at this. We want to make a website on our iis5 server that's accessable only to our users in one win2k active directory group. We don't want them to have to log on. Is this possible? I removed anonymous access from the directory, but when I try to access a file in the directory...more >>

I have a professor who uses CGI, and I've added the four exe's on his web site to the list of allowed extensions. Will I need to do this every time he uploads a differently named exe, or is there a way I can enable his "bin" directory to automatically allow the new exe's he uploads? TIA!...more >>

I try to open a web with frontpage 2003 on my local IIS server (XP PRO) and I get a message : A Web Server at http://kenny-xp does not appear to have the Windows SharePoint Services installed. Kenny-xp is the name of my web. This was working fine at some point... but all of a sudden it st...more >>

hello, I was wondering is there was a way to allow my server to be accessed from a public ip of the internet host comp. My setup is i have a gateway computer that hosts the internet, then all the other computers get the internet from that (i know this is not the best way, but it is only...more >>

I have a 2003 server running iis6. Whenever I try and set the default document for a site (different than the four that are automatically setup when you create the site), such as index.shtml, IIS does not server the default document. I have checked the default document settings many times - the ...more >>

I'm running XP SP2 and applied 817293. I can use IE to connect to IIS on the same using Windows Auth (NT, not kerb) machine with: o http://localhost o http://<NetBIOS name> but not: o http://127.0.0.1 o http://<FQDN> o http://<alternate A record FQDN> I even a...more >>

I would like to know how long Windows 2k caches user credentials. In particular, I have a web server connected through a rather slow pix-to-pix VPN to a Win2k domain controller on the main LAN. The web application server uses a domain user account to run the application. It's obvious that it ...more >>

Hi, I have a dedicated server running Win 2003, IIS 6, and ASP.net 1.1 I have 8 ip addresses and under the Default Web Site I created a virtual directory called "test" so I can test my app. This uses "All Assigned IPs" My app is asp.net (C#) and uses MS Access db (JET). Here is the pr...more >>

Hi There! My ASP website with IIS 5 is working fine until I installed Windows XP Service pack 2 and since that time I'm getting the following error when I tried to browse the ASP pages... The requested resource is in use. This error does not show up when I browse the following files and...more >>

Is there a free download available for those of us running XP Home Edition? I'm trying to learn ASP and I have Frontpage 2003 but I don't seem to have a way to get a web server running. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian...more >>

I have 2 computers on a LAN. We share the same DSL account. My computer uses WinXP Home and I want to design some web pages using Front Page Extensions. The other computer uses WinXP Pro. I just installed IIS on the other computer. Not knowing that it is very desirable to have XP PRO on the comp...more >>

Anyone have a simplified set of instructions on how to do this? ...more >>

Is there any way to limit the number of simultaneous requests in web aplication? (.NET web application/ IIS6)...more >>

I currently have a site running on a 2k3EE server running IIS and have an interesting situation. I have another server (not accessible via the internet) with information I'd like to access from a link on the previous server's web page. Is this at all possible? Thanx. ...more >>

Hello, On our server we cant seem to get access to the iis websites, manny small ones, outside our network, the server has direct access to the internet and the firewall has been configured to allow the iis to work. We have tried dns access and direct ip address access, form a variety...more >>

Hi all - hope someone can help! After a recent reboot, I noticed that all of our websites (we host several small sites) were in a 'stopped' state. on trying to restart them I get the message "The process was unable to access the file as it is in use by another process". I have tried the o...more >>

I have been trying to get the outlook web access working on server 2003 and have been far from succsessful. This is my first time attempting something like this and feel that I am probably missing something simple. The very first step that it apears I need to do is make my server a front end s...more >>

Hi all, I have a ASP application which will call some VFP COM object to read/write some database files. The application work fine in Windows 2000 + IIS5.0, however, my company now migrate to a Windows 2003 + IIS6.0 and some problem appear. I find that when the application run for a 1 or 2 ...more >>

i am using s 5.0 and type urs "http://localhost" it is connecting me with another computer in my network....more >>

I run ColdFusion and IIS on a win2k Server. The server simply stopped serving pages. On restart, iis reports 'error 14 Not enough storage available to complete the operation." Event logs seem normal - not report of anomalous stuff until the restart. ColdFusion will not start either. H...more >>

Hello running win2k AS here. Have a non production server drive that crashed, installed as a secondary on a workstation and I would like to know what directories the websites in IIS were pointed to from the files that I recovered. Is ther esome type of metebase viewer that you can run ...more >>

Anyone have any idea how to do this efficiently? Here's the situation. I have a server hosting a site where several pages are located in a virtual directory on a network share. I would like the sever hosting the network share to be in suspend-to-RAM mode until its pages are called via magic ...more >>

hi, all I have a COM object which uses CAsyncSocket::Create() to create a socket . The object will be used in ASP files in IIS6. when in iis5 or iis5 isolation mode of ii6 , it seems ok. but in worker process mode of iis6 , it seems there are some errors in creating the socket object. ...more >>

Hi all, I'm using Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 at the moment. I have a web page that has a link to a "msg" format file. When I click on the link it adds the "mhtml:" infront of the page address and i have page not available error. Example: mhtml:http://localhost:2012/josey/Industry_Presen...more >>

I'm having issues with IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003. I can create a simple dummy.htm with just the default html tags. About 1 out of 10 times, when I click refresh, it just hangs forever. The site does not have any real traffic...except me testing it. This is only happening for a specific...more >>

Hi, Is there a difference of hosting a web site in XP's IIS and W2K3 IIS? TIA TagaR...more >>

Can some one tell me why my sbs 2003 iis5 server only has an option to Configure Frontpage 2002 Extensions on some of my sites and not others? I've created a new web and need it to be a frontpage web but the option to configure it isn't there! Any help is apreciated. Thanks...more >>

I'm just wondering if there's an IIS pre-installed in the windows xp Home Edition, since I want to use my own server from home....more >>

This morning on one our websites crashed and I saw this error in the event log: Application popup: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library : Buffer overrun detected! Program: c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe A buffer overrun has been detected which has corrupted the program's internal s...more >>

I'm seeing IIS hangs every couple days. These hangs affect only ASP pages; static pages continue service. I'm serving JSP pages using Tomcat with an ISAPI redirector, and it continues serving pages during the hangs. Note that I have removed the ISAPI filter, and the hangs still occur. I hav...more >>

Hi There is running always time depended application in IIS 5 server (W2K) => The server must be just in correct time all the time. I have tried Atomic Clock Sync 2.6 but in spite of that util the time is not excatly correct unless I do manyally time ping every 3th or 4th day. So how c...more >>

Hello! I have some records in a database (access), like this: 001111-10 001111-11 001111-12 002222-10 002222-11 002222-12 I need to retrive the first record of each sequence, "001111-10" and "002222-10" in the example above. Next part is I need to show only the first part of each rec...more >>

Hi All I have installed a cgi-program called MapServer (an free open source component) on a IIS 5.0 server. After the install, everything works, but after a while (a couple of days), the cgi stoppes working, and all i get is CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by no...more >>

I created a new virtual directory on my testing server. When the directory is created the red stop sign error displays instead of the regular virtual directory icon under the default websites node in IIS. The pages display fine when I browse the site under the localhost. I cannot figure out ...more >>

Hi all, I'm having a problem with the IISAdmin service on Windows SBS 2003. The service keeps quitting unexpectedly. According to the MSFT KB this is/may be due to effects of the Code Red worm. I'm suspect, since I run the Windows firewall on this computer but ran the Code Red cleanup tool anyway...more >>

I am looking for some advice on recommended settings for the number of threads IIS and ASP uses. I am currently running IIS5 on a HP DL360 Dual 2.8GHz Xeon server with 1GB of RAM, with HyperThreading enabled. All of the thread settings (MaxPoolThreads, PoolThreadLimit, ASPProcessorThreadMax...more >>

Here's what we would like to do. We have two seperate directories. 1 directory will have all updated files. There will be another directory with some of the files from the first directory. These files will be the same by file name only but the contents will be slightly different. Is it poss...more >>

Hello, In a recent post, I described how the processor resources on our single web server (running on Windows Server 2000 SP4 and IIS 5.0) would become consumed at high levels for long periods of time by inetinfo.exe. After posting the IISState log to this site, our office followed through with...more >>

Gurus, Last night I saved all my IIS 6.0 web sites running on my Windows Server 2003 machine (they run as individual sites with host headers defined, not as virtual directories) to individual files. I then uninstalled/re-installed IIS. I re-imported all my web sites. Now, none of them will ...more >>

I have a cgi email exe in a "cgi-bin" folder. When I post to this file from, <form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/cgimail.exe">, I get an HTTP 405. The "cgi-bin" folder is set for "Scripts and Executables" I think it may require MIME map setting or Application Configuration settings, but I ...more >>