We are using windows 2003+ asp.net. We have a virtual directory with the "Anonymous Access" disabled. We are using "Integrated Windows Authentication" and "Baisc authentication" for this virtual directory. This virtual directory is automatically updated by a build system. We keep on seeing t...more >>

Hi all - I've been lurking about trying to learn to read my own IISState Logs - and while I can pick out some things, I am not yet comfortable that I'm learning anything yet :-) I'm hoping to receive some help reading an IISState Log. Here's a quick background: We run a fairly busy (50k + un...more >>

Hi everyone, Is there a way to supress the "ETag:" herver header in IIS 5.0? Thanks, rusga...more >>

I have lots of ISAPI applications in my IIS4 + WINNT server. Suddently a MTX.EXE hangs with CPU at 100%. Is there anyway to know which isapi .dll uses this mtx? Thanks! ...more >>

I guess I'm a litte bit confused about app pool and worker process. In IIS 6.0 We have a concept of worker processes and application pools. As I understand it, we can have multiple worker process per appliction pool. Each worker process is dedicated to a pool. If I assign only one applicati...more >>

I made a c# .net webservice that uses a class in a separate .net dll (x.dll) . This .net dll (x.dll) has dependencies on other DLLs. I put all of these DLLs (x.dll along with it's dependencies) into the bin folder of the webservice. On a WinXP machine the webservice runs properly when I try to i...more >>

Windows 2003 Server/IIS 6. WebDav enabled. ASP pages do not upload, other files do. I think this has to do with something like 'Check if file exits' feature. Does anyone know where/how to turn this feature off? Thanks....more >>

Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Applicaton Pool 'defaultAppPool' because of the following eror: cound not create Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The Data may have additional error codes. This error message is generated three to four time a day. ...more >>

I have a problem with certain clients being able to access a protected area of our website. We're using IIS6 and have a folder set with security properties that deny access to iusr_win2003. For all but a few clients, the login dialog appears when they try to access a page that is in the fo...more >>

Hi, recently I did an update of a Windows Server 2003 Webedition to Service Pack 1. Since that update, I have a problem with the FTP-service: If a FTP-client issues the PASV-command to switc to passive FTP mode, the FTP-service answer immideately with "425 Can't open data connection.". Th...more >>

Hi We have a high traffic PHP built website which is hosted on a twin processor (Zeus) Windows 2003/IIS6 server. PHP 4.4.1 came preinstalled as a CGI but because of the load we were getting random 'CGI Header' errors. Microsoft have found the problem to be with the processors entering '...more >>

Ok.. I'm stumped. I changed the regional settings on my test box to UK to test some date formatting issues. The date format properly changed from mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy. Now I wish to change back. Again, I changed the Regional Settings on my server and Windows returns mm/dd/yyyy, ...more >>

We have a site coded in ASP.NET and see w3wp.exe crash every once in a while. it also runs high on memory. Here is the IIS State log, If someone here can determine what's happening in this log it would be much appreciated. Opened log file 'C:\iisstate\output\IISState-1700.log' *************...more >>

Hi: Has anyone used Windowx XP's Internet Information Services 5.1? I am trying to set up my PC as an FTP server, so other people can access it (and download files, etc.) from another computer but I haven't had any luck. I already did all the steps and everything but I'm starting to think...more >>

Here's the scenerio: HAD: Entire Windows 2000 domain multiple servers Internal Web Server - Windows 2000 NAS Server - Windows 2000 Internal Web Application (On Web server) utilizing .ASP scripts to access shared directories through mapped drives on NAS Server. (And yes, I know UNC pat...more >>

Hello, We have a problem with IIS 6 hanging on 2003 Server. We cant seem to locate the error and therefore we have innstalled iistate. Our web application is run in asp, not asp.net. iistate gave us the log below. Perhaps someone could help us to locate where the error occurs, or at least hel...more >>

I just installed IIS on my machine and the default test page and the IIS help page work fine. If I use .net to deploy a website or use notepad to create an arbitrary html page and create a virtual directory for it, I can't view it. The error I get is 403 - Forbidden. I followed a troubleshoo...more >>

Hi everyone, Hope someone can help me on this one........ I have a website that depending on the if you try to access on the local machine or a reomte machone you get the above error message Error 500 Internal Server Error on the local machine Error 404 directory of file not found on a r...more >>

I'm running PHP5 under IIS 5 and trying to access a file in a shared (hidden) folder and failing. I've asked on comp.lang.php about this and someone suggested that I may get more help out of this ng. <?php $filename= '//print-admin/Public$/planningprepress/planning/prepresslist.xls' if (fil...more >>

Anyone help me with this error!!!! Server Error in '/multiqual' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Failed to access IIS metabase. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Pl...more >>

Hi, I'm creating a simple app that periodically sends an email via a console application. Currently I'm using the MailMessage object & the smptMail objects to do this. I'ver simplified the test just to test whether I can send mail. My Test looks like this smtpMail.Send("from@here.com", "...more >>

Friends, We did a hang analysis on a w3wp.exe dump using DebugDiag, but I can't really tell what might be happening. Somebody grabbed a critical section in thread 11, and what? SO some other threads are now blocked behind 11, and we don't even know what 11 was doing really. We are plague...more >>

I am attempting to send mail from a server connected to the public Internet using CDOSYS called from VB 6 active X dll. The server is running Windows 2003, IIS 6.0. The email file is created and put in the Pickup directory, but it goes directly to the Queue directory, stays there for a while...more >>

hi, have a problem with iis5.1 and ado db connection. from time to time the ado db connections from customers to their access db are not working. it occurs the 80004005 error what could be the reason for that? regards, ed ...more >>

Hi... I have a couple of questions about ISAPI functioning... 1) It seems by default that when the isapi handles the request and returns a SF_STATUS_REQ_FINISHED, whatever response is made is made with the same protocol that the original request was in. I.e. if the incoming request was ...more >>

Hello, I am having a problem and cannot figure it out. I have a dc that is running two Web sites. I have asp.net installed. The websites are running fine (one is running dnn4). I have FTP enabled with my two websites as a virtual directories under the Default FTP Site. I can connect to...more >>

We are experiencing a large handle leak on one of our servers. There seems to be some ASP requests executing in a loop. These requests do not time out so I don't they make it to the IIS logs. Is there a non-invasive way to see what ASP requests are executing? I can't install MS Debugger or ...more >>

Experiencing regular crashes (w3SVC event 37) with IIS. Windows 2000 server, fully patched IIS5. Loaded IISState with -sc -d switches. IISState returns "(fac.d78): unknown exception - code 800706bf (first chance)" at the command line, but no log or dump file. Am I attaching to the wrong PID...more >>

Have been advised to approach this forum, having tried ASP.NET We have a web application that stream images (generated by IIS6/GDI+) back to the client. On one particular server (MS 2003 web edition server, 2GB memory, twin 2.6GHz cpus, latest patches etc.) we are experiencing a problem where...more >>

What is required to allow PUTs on IIS 6.0 ?? I have enabled WebDAV but I am still getting a 403.1 Can the PUTs be limitted to a single site rather than the entire service? Or even limitted to just a vdir? ...more >>

When i Access the web site with the http://localhost/login.aspx the IIS log write the IP:127.0.0.1 But When i accesswith the http://ServerName/login.aspx the IIS log write the Server IP :128.11.63.12 why there's a differnt??? both ways i can get the login.aspx page but to the other pages(in su...more >>

I am facing a problem in my network that suddenly my intranet site is asking password in some of the computers as i have the network of 2000 computers and when user are giving passowrd its showing access denied. Can anyone help me on this as i m facing this problem and users are anoyed. i will...more >>

http://localhost/iishelp/iis/default.htm does not access the help file. The help file is in c:\windows\help\iishelp\iis\default.htm but there is no way to access the file even if you try to open default.htm in a browser. What is localhost? How is this supposed to work? How do I make localh...more >>

I am a beginner in this whole computer "thing",but I do know that my computer isn't supose to 'freeze up' while I'm in the middle of a task. Is there any updates?,programs or ANYTHING I can do? Any sugestions?...more >>

Hi, It seems IIS restarts webservices after a period of time. I have installed WebServices on a server, these WebServices maintain a state in themselves according to the requests by client application. The problem is that these WebServices restart all by themselves and the state is lost. Why ...more >>

I recently loaded Windows XP Proffessional onto my system. Everything works great except for one "wierd" thing.....When I shut down my system, it restarts itself in 2 or 3 minutes? Why is this happening and how can I stop it? Thanks....more >>

I'm getting an error when opening a web site in front page. Server Error: Error 5 opeing regisrty key "software\classes\.application". Where in IIS can this be resolved? I cannot find a document that address this issue. Hopefully someone has an idea how to fix it....more >>

Hi All, I am having problem with the virtual directory that maps to the remote folder in Novell File Server. I have Win2003 server with IIS 6.0. I am trying to map a virtual directory with the remote folder in Novell Server. I have made sure that I have used correct user and password but...more >>

I've moved my PHP from Apache to ISS. Everything is ok except for writeing to files: Warning: fopen(administracja/rejestry/wywolania.dat): failed to open stream: Permission denied in c:\serwer\wierchy\pliki\rejestr.php on line 50 Any ideas? Thanks ...more >>

We have an internal website on IIS 5.0 (Win2000) http://(Win2000_server_name)/site.htm which works fine. This was copied to IIS 6.0 (Win2003) with the link of: http://(Win2003_server_name)/site.htm and when opened it displays the html code of the page rather than the page itself. Any idea...more >>

I am trying to find the hot fix mentioned at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817177. I am missing many image files when I load a web page. Anyone know how to get the hot fix or correct this problem? Thanks....more >>

I currently have a old windows 2000 server that hosts a couple websites. I have a new server that I would like to move all these sites to. The new server is running windows 2003. Is there an easy way to this? Thanks Mike from PSU...more >>

Guys, I'm using a 2K server with IIS to send few emails from some applications. Everything run ok :) Now, I'm going to use it during night time to send a weekly newsletter. How many address ? more than 100.000 Main Question: Do you think that IIS will manage the queue without problems ? How d...more >>

What do you recommend for a good software firewall that is for windows 2003 server. I have only remote access. IT is a web server, and folks ftp. that is about it. I am running Fprot anti virus on the machine, and also integrated with the email system called mailenable. So far so good. I ...more >>

Hi all, How can I backup the sites under IIS? I remotely manage this server and there is no backup ability. I think it may be a good idea. Is there a way to remotely back it up using ftp perhaps? IIS 6 with windows 2003 server Thanks for your help Julie ...more >>

At our department some users want to have their web pages direct under the main home directory. The problem is that I can not create virual folder which make allias to folder which is already within our home directory. How to create alliases to the folders which are already in the home direc...more >>

hello everybody I would like some general advice on hosting a website for the college that i work for. I want it to run sepearately from my internal network. I was thinking of getting a seperate machine to run the webserver, and run it side by side of my internal network, off the same firew...more >>

I've got an asp app that needs to use SSL only for certain pages. Is there a way to shut off port 80 for certain pages (HTTS pages), but have it open for other pages? Can this be done in IIS? OR is this something we can do testing server variables in the asp classic vb script code? -- C...more >>

I am trying to get an intranet site up and running, however it is making me log in everytime. I was wondering if someone could explain security in a quick manner so users in my domain don't have to login to the site. -- Thanks, Dirk...more >>

Hi, I have installed II6 and .NET Framework 2.0 RTM on WS2K3 with SP1. After the installation I have configured ASP.NET 2.0 using aspnet_regiis -i from command line. When I try to start II6 I have the following error (sorry but it's translated from italian, I think sound like this in english):...more >>