Hi, For quite a few years I have been working on sites hosted on Microsoft IIS servers, working with asp/sql/access etc. However, for my new business it would be great to host my own site from my office. I have a spare Compaq PC running Windows 2000. Could this be used economically as a n...more >>

Hi, I have set up the default FTP site to allow UNIX users to ftp to my = server. My Solaris user can log in to the ftp site (ftp [address] --> = administrator --> password) and I received a confirmation (in the UNIX = shell) that the administrator user was logged in. However, when I try ...more >>

I'm trying to access my domain internally, on Windows 2003 Server. My domain is 'domain.com', which I can access from anywhere outside the network. When I access internally, it points to the domain controller. I set the DNS forwarder record for 'www' to the external ip, and I can access intern...more >>

Greetings everyone, We are in the process of integrating all of our previous web sites and applications from our previous server to our new SBS 2003 machine. Our sites include several forms that submit data to dBASE .DBW files that process the SQL lookups and return the results to the brow...more >>

Why does internet explorer not work sometimes when trying to access an ftp site (either anonymous or otherwise) but if you try the same thing through an ftp client it works fine? Is this a setting in internet explorer? Ray ...more >>

Dear All, I have a WIN 2000 AS (IIS5.0) where some web site are hosted. Since a couple of week I have experienced an error which is able to stop = some web sites. Error is : Event ID 4238 Source COM+ COM+ has determined that your machine is running very low on available = memor...more >>

Hi I belong to an install group that installs a website on our customers computer. We put an internet shortcut on the users desktop during the installation. I need a way to deterimine if the shortcut should be HTTP: or HTTPS:. Is there a place I can look in the registry to determine this? Or...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to use WMI to monitor the state of a webserver (IIS6 / W2K3). In particular I wish to check that an ISAPI filter is (remains) correctly loaded. On my test server I have a clean build of W2K3 with IIS6, and my filter installed on the default web site. I've been using WMI CI...more >>

Hello all, first, sorry to x-post this but not any closer to finding information than months ago... have any of you seen anything like this before? I have been having a problem with IIS5 logs not capturing en=ADough URL information and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced=AD this. U...more >>

Hi all, My web server needs to support both Windows and non-Windows authentication. Hence I need to enable both anonymous access and integrated windows security. Both type of authentication works fine. However I realized if I login using integrated windows security the credential will be...more >>

My website has a person that is hammering my website, he has set up a bot that run searches on the website. Hi is effectively copying my database. The problem I have with this is that it is hammering my website and slowing it down to a crawl. I have banned his IP but he keeps coming back with ...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know what ration of compression is achevied when this setting is enabled, using the gzip compression dll. TIA MattC ...more >>

I have IIS5 as my local intranet. We have asp based site which works fine on my intranet but when i upload it to a internet server IIS6 it cannot be accessed from internet. It gives '500 Internal Server Error' when i try to access a page within that directory. Same works fine locally. I o...more >>

Good morning: This is my environment: Windows2003, IIS6.0, SSL + Client Certificates, .NET Fmk 1.1, All the current Fixes released by MS. I have a production server that has some really big pages (lots of data), from time to time (but becoming more frequent everytime) I get blank pages,...more >>

I'm having some problems setting this up correctly. A company wants a solution where a client can plug into their network, browse to a webpage and connect to a printer. I have set a DNS alias for the Print server with IIS on called Printers and auto-forward to http://printers/printers. I have ...more >>

Hi, I'm using the following line in ASP script on IIS6 running on Windows 2003. biData = Request.BinaryRead(Request.TotalBytes) It works successfully for filesizes less than or equal to 113KB. It fails on greater file sizes with the error "ASP 0104 Operation not Allowed". I've recreated the...more >>

I have an IIS 6.0 website that accesses a SQL Server 2000 database through an asp page. I didn't write the website I just manage the IIS and SQL Server. When the link to the asp page is clicked it should access the database and return a drop down list. Instead, it hangs for a while and then...more >>

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I've got this on the event viewer while the IIS is not responding. pls help. Thanks. Event Type: Error Event Source: WAM Event Category: None Event ID: 204 Date: 2005-01-31 Time: 12:36:25 PM User: N/A Computer: WEB4 Description: The HTTP server encountered an unhandled exception whi...more >>

I've read many articles on web concerning renaming the IUSR account and secure practices. But none went step-by-step telling exactly how to do it for IIS and user/groups. Also, most articles on securing IIS are for versions 4 and 5. IIS6 took care of many gaps in security and I'm just intere...more >>

Hello, I have a server 2003 domain controller and 2 server 2003 web edition webservers. I would like to use a domain iusr and a domain iwam account which are on the domain controller. I can't figure out how to create these domain accounts, the iwam account on the webserver is member of th...more >>

Hi,=20 i'm using asp-dot-net on IIS 6 and the http headers include a = transfer-encoding: chunked how can this be canceled? TIA, z....more >>

Hello, I am programming a script in Jscript with ADSI that automatically configure IIS. I meet with a problem to turn on the ASP.net web service extension. I don't know how to do that. I tried to var filters = GetObject ("IIS://localhost/W3SVC/Filters"); and use alert (filters.lengt...more >>

Hi, I manage a Windows 2k web server (SP4) which hosts a database driven site with content management facilites. The same server hosts a copy of this site for training purposes. The only difference between the sites is that the 'training site' is password protected using Windows authenticatio...more >>

Hi Guys.... I know this is am IIS discussion group but does anyone know anything about Sharepoint Team Services or if there is a news group for it. I am an experienced and season user of the software however something has stumped me and I need some help. Microsoft don't have the answer to ...more >>

Folks, we have an ex-con running an anti-spam list, AHBL.org & Sosdg.org. He was convicted of first degree Computer Tampering charges! If you need more information on Mr. Bruns, I suggest you call... 1. Christopher Nicolino in the Suffolk County DA's Office...(631)853-4161 regarding indictmen...more >>

I want one of my aspx run under a certain user's credential, the user name is vcadmin, so I went to IIS, under "enable anonymous access", I select the vcadmin user and type in password. And unselect all security setting under "Authenticated access". I expect any anonymous user will run the aspx ...more >>

If I do not give this user administrative rights the asp pages wont work. if I do, then it works fine. But giving that administrative rights seem to indicate too much of a security risk. Any suggestions on hwo to overcome this. ...more >>

I am new at setting up websites. I want to add a site to my 2003 server and assign it an IP address with a host header name. What info do I have to give to register this site with a 3rd party registar? ...more >>

I read the differences long ago but now forgot. The most important, I believe, is that IIS6 spawns a new process for each http request from a client (?). Of course, I don't include the fact that iis6 is only available on WS. ...more >>

I guess the subject says it all. My IIS6 server will publish on the LAN perfectly with no problem. But on the internet, if anyone pulls it up, it says "Website found, waiting for reply" in the bottom of Internet Explorer and continues to try to pull it up until it times out a couple mins later...more >>

Hi! What are the risks of having the IUSR as the application pool identity.ie, what are the risks of having the application pool identity to anonymous user. If no risks exist then why did they even have these two as separate? Thanks, ...more >>

Is there an explanation somewhere as to how IIS6 determins how many ASP threads its actually going to use? I have configured IIS6 to have 20 threads (ASPProcessorThreadMAX) but it rarely uses them all. I am using the MACT test tool to stress test and with 50 concurrent users I quite often s...more >>

We have an IIS+ASP based application server that is capable of providing complex reports to hundreds of users but in some circumstances these reports can take a long time to create. However the data for the report is cached so subsequent calls to view the same report come back with a sub-second ...more >>

does anyone know if windows scripting host is enabled by default in win2k3? wouldn't that be a security concern? Aaron ...more >>

I tried to install EXCH 2003 this weekend, using the "new hardware" method and the "deployment wizard" I got stuck because I could not find any way to install.enable the NNTP service on my W2K3 server. I read all the docs/help - using Manage Your Server (IIS and ASP are installed) and Add/R...more >>

On a development server using IIS 6.0 we allow some directories "browsing" access. When we accessed the directory thru the browser we would get a full listing of files, folders, datetime, file extensions, etc. All of a sudden that same display only shows the name of the file. A DOS analog...more >>

I have a .NET web service running on IIS. The client is a Java applet. The client calls a method on the server every few seconds. When running the client in IE 6, it gradually uses up all available IIS connections (limit is set to 10, but have tried it at 40 with same results) resulting in a ...more >>

Is it poosible to host two different websites off the same IIS server? I would like the client to use www.newwebsite1.com and www.newwebsite2.com in their address bar? I have looked into host headers and I am unable to get this to work? Any ideas? Thanks ...more >>

We have a machine running Windows 2003 Server, IIS 6, and Windows SharePoint Services. The machine resides in our DMZ (outside the firewall), and is on a separate domain that has a one-way trust relationship with our intranet domain (separate forest; the extranet domain trusts accounts from our ...more >>

I have three PCs in a workgroup network, all using Windows XP. I have iis running on one of these pcs (named mf1), and from this pc I can view a website that resides on this same pc - using either: http://localhost/dbsite or http://mf1/dbsite What do I need to do so that the two oth...more >>

Is there a way t get iis 5.1 to recognize virtual paths for a vrtual folder ?? for server side includes, I am unable to use virtual paths in my websites on a IIS 5.1 server (Winxp Pro sp2). <!--#include virtual="/<virtual path>/<filename.ext>"--> I can only use parent paths <!--#incl...more >>

I have a SBS 2003 server that, up until about 2 weeks ago, was serving my companys Outlook Web and Remote Desktop services without issue. Something apparnetly happened that is now preventing any SSL connections. I can browse all HTTP virtual directories OK, but any site or directory that re...more >>

Hi, I am trying to post a form to a html page and I am getting this error. HTTP Error 405 - The HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed. Internet Information Services (IIS) I have checked that name of the document is correct. Please help ...more >>

I have a hosting company hosting one of my sites. I noticed in the IIS Log files that there were over 20 restarts that ocurred during the day. There were 20 times that the log file headers appeared which I think happen after an IISReset. When I asked the hosting company about this they indi...more >>

Is there a guide to help to setup IIS6 on a windows 2003 Server Thank You ...more >>

Howdy, I have a webserver where the "Requests Queued" keeps climbing over time. I have downloaded, installed IISState, and run IISState against inetinfo.exe and all the dllhost.exe PID's. I am including the log from inetinfo to see if anybody can give me assistance in interpreting what is h...more >>

Hi - new comer to the list I am looking to build on some work I did using ACT (Application Center Test) from the MSDN KIt and take advantage of the new stuff in IIS 6 Resource Kit that featues the WCAT (Web Capacity Analysis Tool Version 5.2) for load testing and performance monitoring ...more >>

Hi, I set up a webdav folder using kb323470. I can access it using ie but if I attempt to create a folder using add network place, i get the following message: "the folder you entered does not appear to be valid. please choose another." I tried this with a 2000 and xp client, as well as on th...more >>

We have a new 2003 server just basically running a third party email program it's called workgroup mail. We are a relatively small comapny but have people across the US and need webmail access. here is the problem at least twice a day i need to restart the IIS services so the webmail page can ...more >>