We are experiencing a problem with our IIS 4/NT 4 server and the way it handles web server logs in the event of an unexpected power failure. Whenever a power failure occurs, the contents of the web log files for the prior 6 days are deleted. The file sizes have not changed, indicating that ...more >>

For the last year I've used no-ip.com for domain forwarding to my website, which I'm hosting on IIS 6.0. After discovering that Yahoo Small Business Services was offering a special price of $1.99 per year for what was purported to be nearly the same service, I switched. Now I'm wondering i...more >>

Can I use perfmon to run reports on how many hits some of my web sites get per day? Running Windows Server 2003 SP1. IIS 6.0. -- Spin ...more >>

Not sure if this is the right forum for this but... I have built a Win2k3 server w / FPSE 2002 to replace an aging Win2K / FPSE 2000 server. None of the FrontPage forms on the site ar validating, writing to the output text files or sending emails. I ca send email when I invite a FrontPage user...more >>

I have written a web page to use cdosys to e-mail. The page works fine on 2 of my 3 servers, all Windows 2003 with IIS 6.0 and ASP 2.0. Anyways, on the one server I get the following error: CDO.Configuration.1 error '8007007f' The specified procedure could not be found. /email.asp, line...more >>

I have a pc with iis installed. It is to be used for testing in house only of my web site I have put together. I have it on a network with 3 other machines. Where should the website be published? In a default directory on that pc or in the iis directory? The default page is index.htm, d...more >>

Hello I use Win2K and want to serve ASP pages on my desktop. Alas, I am unable to install IIS as I mislaid my installation disks. Does anyone know whether the server on Visual Web Developer Express runs ASP web pages? Thanks in advance Martin Placek ...more >>

I'm getting this error after 5 minutes (300 seconds) of processing a PHP file in IIS 5.1 (WinXP). I've searched for hours and every solution is the following: Open the Administrative Tools control panel. Open the Internet Services Manager item. Right-click on the computer icon in the left p...more >>

IIS 6 W2K3 I have an interesting problem. I'm trying to setup a simple virtual directory that points to a remote share. When I create the new virtual directory I choose the "A share located on another computer" option and input the UNC path in the "Network Directory:" box. I then click ...more >>

Due to a somewhat lack of documentation in how to create a website entry in iis I attempted to look at an existing one and retrieve its data to use that in creating a new one. I seem to get most of the data, but the host header is missing. It is supposed to have 2 entries: news.brandmark.no an...more >>

Hi, I have a question about IIS process Inetinfo's memory behavior. Over the course of two days, the perfmon process,virtual bytes counter grows from 1G to 2G at which time out of memory errors are thrown and the server is restarted. However, during this time, private bytes and working set...more >>

hi, i have a htm page which runs shockwave files. it used to work fine on Server 2000 but NOT on 2003 server. I have done some research about this problem on the net and accordingly i have done some changes to the IIS 6.0 Default website properties. In the HTTP headers section --> MIME T...more >>

I am receiving the following error message when anyone visit my site: Your server lacks support for file system object! Any ideas on this. http://www.repairmicro.com Thanks in advance Chad...more >>

I just wanted to ask what others are using for create a development or backup version of their web sites? We have two identical servers (development & production) and of course want a mirror image of our web site on both pushing the changes from dev to prod. What software or tools do you use to...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to configure a new website. I absolutely no expert on IIS so forgive me if there is a stupidity in the question. when I send a request to the website there is no response visible, in the IIS log there is a Rejected-By-UrlScan error. I assume that it is a security item, is...more >>

Hello everyone, We are runnign a Windows 2003 Server with IIS, we did the hot fix that was released, and now since than our ASP scripts will not work correctly giving us a Permission denied. Checked Permissions and all is fine. Not sure why this is still receiving an error. Here is the e...more >>

I have installed IIS on my win2k3. I also created a directory on the C: drive for a website and started that on my IIS and stopped the Default Website. I have a LAN. All the workstations can see the website , but it cannot be seen from the outside. Any ideas what is blocking it. I have a NAT ser...more >>

Hi all, Can anybody help me out i am into a strange situation, the FTP is getting automatically disabled frequently. What would be the reason friends? and what would you all suggest me in this condition .. what can i do to over come this.. please help. Sam ...more >>

Hi everybody, I am facing an error while running JNI COM object in ASP. I was wondering if someone have the solution to the problem. Thanks in advance. The problem is... Steps are: 1.Created one C++ Win32 dll to call a Java code Using JNI. In that I am Creating JVM and Destroying the ...more >>

We have a web application whose session timeout is set to 180 minutes. However, I believe we are still getting timeouts of considerably less than that. I know that we have both ASP and ASPX pages in the same web application. Would this make any difference? ...more >>

Is it possible to place an Excel file onto a website and allow users to edit the file and save the changes onto the server? I have a file that I want to utilize as an availability log and have each person enter their availability. If this is possible how can I accomplish this? Thanks. ...more >>

I am trying to use the host header config within IIS 6 to indentify our intranet site by a different name. Right now you can get to the intranet site by typing: \\servername\intranet. I've added the host header info to have it point to the ip address 192.168.2.5 (port 80) with a new name of f...more >>

I configured IIS to redirect error 404 to the default page of the site. Is there anyway to send http code 404 in the default page ? ...more >>

I'm being told by my hosting provider (they run windows server 2003) that all hosting providers (in a shared hosting environment) have to restart IIS one or (more often) multiple times per day usually because of coding problems on the part of their clients. I suppose by this they mean bad asp.n...more >>

I keep getting access denied error that my IP address does not have authorization to view this page when looking at the .Net 2.0 samples. On my local 2000 workstation the button to deny or grant IP access by IP address is disabled. Any ideas? Thanks, Jim ...more >>

how do you setup a simple internal email system in win2k -- Thanks for your help. Kevin...more >>

When I try to download update Internet 6 explorer it gets to about 3/4 of the way then it just freezes. I then have to shut down my computer and reboot. When I try and go to Google search engine it flashes up then immediately goes to a error message that says Program Manager crashed due Access...more >>

Hello, I have a server and It was configured as an application server. I mistakingly removed this service which includes the iis. I have ever since been trying to reconfigure and reinstall the server as an application server and install IIS. The configuration wizard always tells me it cannot cop...more >>

Hi, On the same Server, I would like to have 2 Sites running independantly. Thus under "Web Sites" I have: Description Identifier State Port "Default Web Site" 1 Running 80 "My Application" 858050600 Running 12500 ...more >>

I am getting the following error in event log for IIS, what is it and what is the fix? Faulting application inetinfo.exe, version 5.1.2600.2180, faulting module ntfsdrv.dll, version 6.0.2600.1, fault address 0x000032e3....more >>

HI, I am trying to get SMTP working on a develpment machine with Windows XP-Pro and IIS 5.1. I installed the SMTP Service and it is running under the local system account, also the SMTP Virtual Server is also running under IIS. I followed the instructions in the following article, replacing t...more >>

I receive a MSIMN exception c0000006H in module DIRECTDB.DLL AT 017f:01bf556c when I try to open Outlook Express. What can be done?...more >>

Hi; The email from the IIS SMTP server in the Badmail folder puts a 3D before each attribute like this: <table width=3D'590' style=3D'border-collapse: collapse; padding-left:5.4pt;padding-right:5.4pt;'><tr> Any idea why? (I don't know if this is in the mail sent also.) -- thanks - da...more >>

Hi; I am testing using the IIS SMTP server for when my web app (java-based, not asp) sends an email. The java code to send the mail reports success (and returned an error the first time until I allowed a relay from my test system). Note: In this case I am sending from my workstation (runni...more >>

I am slowly working my way through the exam 70-290 study materials. After the IIS chapter i can no longer see the results of the weekly backups from the server management page- instead of putting the Backup Results.xml contents on the right side of the server management page it gives me "The ...more >>

I have a simple web page that I want to include a text file for frequently changing content (ie store hours). I'm using the following statement in my .htm file: <!--#include file="hours.txt" --> The problem is that the contents of hours.txt will not show up when I view the .htm file. I've d...more >>

Hi friends: My problem is this: I need to configure on a server Windows 2003, version enterprise, the service IIS 6.0. This server is an enviroment of cluster. I want that if one server stops functioning, the process called failover automatically shifts the workload of the failed server t...more >>

Config: win2003-SP1, IIS 6, stand alone (workgroup), .asp, asp.net, cgi enabled; with virtual servers using host headers. Just built my first win2003 server, all working fine. However, in setting up a scripts directory and a virtual wwwroot, I noticed that MS had granted quite a few users per...more >>

Hi I have to set up an FTP server but as already explained, I only do this when I buy a new computer or sth and so I forget what to do. I now have a password problem. I've unticked 'allow anonymous connections' and I've put in a password and the name of user to be used for connections. ...more >>

Attempting to implement a workaround to allow a non local box admin to administer IIS 6. Following the guide here: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/archive/2005/05/08/46074.aspx All appears to work except step 3. When a user who is a member of the appropriate group logs in the the server, ...more >>

Hello, Running IIS 4.0 on NT 4.0. Can anyone point me to a reference which explains how to migrate a from one IIS 4.0 server to another IIS 4.0 server? TIA, Rich...more >>

Hello, The following code sniplet exists in numerous vbscript files that I've downloaded from Microsoft or other sources. When I run the script, I get the following error: Error: Invalid Syntax Line 7, character 1 Code: 800401e$ Source: (null) 'Option Explicit Dim ObjIIS ...more >>

TIA for all help. I have migrated my web from a hosted provider (W2K and IIS5) to a server under my control (Server 2003 and IIS 6). HTML pages work fine, but not ASP. I have read and applied the Microsoft article ideas re: common issues. I've enabled ASP in the Web services extension, but ...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem... Silly but very annoying... My development and testing environment (ASP on local IIS 6.0 on Win XP SP2) doesn't find the include files if they are virtual paths (example: <!--#include virtual="inc-functions.asp" -->) and my real server doesn't allow parent dire...more >>

This is happening on a windows 2003 box with IIS 6.0. I have set the ASP Script time out to be 360 seconds. When I upload a 63 MB file (i know, its huge, but it is the company requirement), it takes around 3 mins 6 secs to finish uploading process. This is done successfully and there are no er...more >>

I am able to sucessfully build and test a ASP.NET 2.0 application on my local test machine. However, when I deploy it to a test server I get a 404 error. Attached are IIS web log snippets showing the failed service.asmx web service query and a successful default.htm query, although BOTH are in...more >>

I went to START, Help and SUPPORT and read the instructions for installing IIS. I went to ADD/REMOVE Windows Components. Clicked on: INTERNET INFORMATION SERVICES and installed the following components only: COMMON FILES DOCUMENTATION FRONTPAGE 2000 SERVER EXTENSIONS INTERNET INFORMATION ...more >>

Can someone confirm or explain the following? I no expert on the following but I believe I have identified an issue with FTP and Cisco devices. Scenario from INSIDE the network: ---------------------------------- When I try to access FTP or Web address from inside to an inside address, it ...more >>

I have the "lite" version of IIS 5 that comes with W2K Pro installed in my Windows 2000 Pro desktop computer. Everything works fine, including ASP and PHP, but every time I boot up I get the error described below in the Event Viewer log. Can anybody tell me what is going on and how I can fix it? ...more >>

We have a W2K STAGE server that went stupid last week. So Network guy says lets up the box to 2003 /IIS6. SP1 applied as well. I have IIS loaded but it won't render any of the ASP pages. Error comes back as : The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, ...more >>