Is there an "easy" way to duplicate an IIS config onto another server? I have IIS v5 running on a Win2K machine and would like to duplicate the IIS settings on my development box....more >>

Hi all, Could somebody please enlighten me with the following issue: I have an apllication that uses OWC11 to generate a chart. Everything works fine until i try to use ExportPicture. I get an Access denied exception which I tried to resolve by making sure that the authentication was set to w...more >>

We recently migrated our website from one server (W2K) to a NLB cluster with two servers (W2K3). The servers are in a domain that has trusts to several (40+) domains running both NT4, W2K and W2K3. All our clients are IE5.5+. The setup works fine for some time (1 - 12 hours or so) but then NT4 ...more >>

I have IIS 6.0 with ASP.NET 1.1 and The developers use caching "Dim MyCache As Cache = HttpContext.Current.Cache()" for proformance gain. They have asked if I can set a global setting in IIS to not do caching in our development environment. I've been looking around and haven't found any thin yet...more >>

So, creating a virtual directory will only give me http://www.abc.org/sales21. Is there any other way to get sales to be a virtual site of the domain? For instance, when users type http://www.21.org can that be a virtual site of http://www.abc.org/? WIN 2K server SP 4, IIS 5 Thanks in a...more >>

Tom, Apologies for posting this here ...... I've just noticed the IIS = Reporter on your site and wondered if you knew of a similar app that = doesn't require .Net? --=20 Regards Steven Burn Ur I.T. Mate Group www.it-mate.co.uk Keeping it FREE! ...more >>

Hello all, Is it possible to configure IIS 6.0 to NOT write in the log files requests to certain files (based on extension) or directories? TIA, Nic ...more >>

My asp page will give a web user an "Internal Server Error" error if I don't grant "everyone" full control of my c drive... I went through IIS lockdown tool and and also followed Microsoft KB article -271071 "How To: Set Basic NTFS Permissions for IIS 5.0. As soon as I take the Everyone ...more >>

hi all, i'm using iis6 installed on win2003 , dotnet framework 1.1 . My problem is.. an aspx page on my application have a lengthy process which takes about 4 minutes (performing database transactions ..) to completes. user click on the transaction button to start this lengthy proc...more >>

Hello. Not sure in which newsgroup I should post this but here goes. I am using Index Server to index HTML documents and using META tags. I = can't seem to find recent documentation on how to use the=20 Index Server Provider=3DMSIDXS=20 Along with the feature if being able to Query on cus...more >>

I recently installed a vendor's web application on IIS6 with default application pools setting, during testing I found it took the server about 20 minutes to get rebooted, if no testing activities it reboots as normal, further more I found there are many Dllhost.exe processes running under a...more >>

HI, I am hosting multiple sites on a server. One of the sites has a SSL certificate and uses SSL. If on one of the non-ssl sites, I type in https://www.domain.com, it attempts to load the certificate. How can I avoid this? Thanks ...more >>

Hello, I have a Windows 2003 Server Web (+SQL 2000) running 20 web sites. Every few month, the ASP pages stop responding. There are no events in the event log. The HTML pages are still served successfully. I have to restart IIS service for the pages to work again. I haven't been able to f...more >>

I'm using IIS on a W2000 client as an internal host for testing sites created in Dreamweaver. The 'local' sites are on my machine; the remote sites are on the other client and the testing server points to those remote folders. The sites are created in IIS and all appears well. However, for the...more >>

I have an issue with InetInfo.exe maxing the cpu and causing site to sluggish and at times non-responsive. Equipment and software specification follow: Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 4 Dual P3 700MHz processors 512 Meg RAM Server Hosts about half a dozen websites ...more >>

I am experiancing a problem with my Foundry ServerIron Load balancers and IIS 5. When a larger form is submitted using IE 6 the page "freezes" or does not generate the page fully. When using FireFox, Netscape, Opera, etc the page does not "freeze" it posts fine and the page generates fine....more >>

I have a router and several computers behind the router. Each of the computers in the LAN has been issued an ip address from the router. Because I am receiving requests from the WAN to see content on my server, I forward port 80 requests to the server's IP. Unfortunately, the server doesn'...more >>

We want to provide web hosting for about 25 of our customers. Can someone please point me to a white paper, tech article or good book on how to set up multiple web sites on a single windows 2000 server. I want each site administrator to only see their site. Thanks Ken ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to get a .NET web server up and running on Windows 2000. I have installed IIS 5.0 and .NET Framework 1.1. When I install, no errors occur and everything seems to be working fine except nothing is listed as started in IIS manager. I try to start the web server and I get thi...more >>

I have a standalone web server running W2K with SMTP installed and enabled. Are there article out there show you how to configure the SMTP to send mail? All the service needs to do is send alert through the SMTP...more >>

My website 100% .ASP ran very well under IIS 5 - since moving to IIS 6 the web site locks up and times out. I have to restart the application pool to get the website working again. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks -- WGH...more >>

Hi can anyone tell me if IIS6 on windows server 2003 has the ILS (Netmeeting) server, or where I can get it? Please email 168pin "at" gmail . com...more >>

hi, We have Web site hosted on the server(Windows 2000 , which is working fine but some times it gives page not found error. So what we do in that case we go to IIS - Web site properties Change the Execute Permissions from Scrips only to Scrips and Executable and change it back to Scri...more >>

All, I recently upgraded my Exchange 2000 server/Windows 2000. I installed Exchange 2003 and then upgraded to Windows 2003 server. In doing so, it broke SSL. I'm not sure why or how a mere upgrade did this, but it did - it could be my lack of knowledge with new features in Windows 2003 s...more >>

Good day to all. This may not be the NG to post this, but here goes. I've created an ActiveX control and tested extensively in VB6. All works exactly as expected. What I want to be able to do is to use it in a web page. However, before the control is used, I need to set a few properties ...more >>

I'm looking for an experienced ISAPI developer to write a custom control for use with IIS v5/6. Need to know the intricacies of the HTTP protocol standards. Will be creating a bridge between IIS and a Java webserver (Tomcat). Respond via email to b26440510 AT yahoo dot com...more >>

Win 03 - IIS 6.0 A form created with Frontpage only works with users in the administrators group. For other users, it asks id & password, but none of the userid work, including administrator. What do I need to configure in Frontpage extension 2002 (or anywhere else) to make it work? Thanks...more >>

Hello All, Hope someone can help... it sounds simple but it isn't, I have 4 web .NET apps in 4 individuals web sites (not virtual directories) on IIS6 with SQL2000 as backend db, default time out was set up to 20 minutes, which was not enough since users of this apps do lot of typing before...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to add a 4th web site to IIS 4.0 - I have 3 already that work fine, using host headers. The error I get is Virtual Directory error - which I have found to be no default page - I go into IIS - sure enough no page, but I published it through Frontpage 2003 (just like the ot...more >>

This is nothing to do with a web-page, but my Laptop with XP Pro was loaded with the directory 'Inetpub', with sub-directories, 'AdminScripts', 'mailroot', Scripts', and 'wwwroot'. I do not plan to start any web-page rooted at my Laptop. How do I remove this Inetpub directory and associated we...more >>

Ok here is my problem. I am trying to host a small family website from my home PC with XP Pro and IIS 5.1. For some reason I can access it with http://localhost from with in my network and even connect with frontpage to update. But when I try to request it by using its actual External IP a...more >>

Hi, I have a new site set up on my lan. Server is a standalone W2k server, workstations are WXP Pro SP2 I have configured an IP in the servers TCP/IP for the site and assigned that IP in IIS I have also created a new user on the server and granted it read access to my sites root folder...more >>

Has anypone run across this? w3wp.exe crashes after a while. I saw it happen while in terminal services. I suspect it might be along the lines of this knowledge base article (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326366) - but could not locate the patch? Does anyone kno...more >>

My boss has handed me another laptop onto which I'm supposed to install our website so the sales folks can give demos without an internet connection. And once again, I'm would be grateful for some help. The problem is, there's no inetpub directory and Internet Information Service does not appea...more >>

Hello All: What are the bare minimum ports needs to allow connection to FTP server via web browser and allow directory listing. I have ports 20 and 21 and can connect find via comman line. But when I try to connect via browser, I get connection cannot be made to that directory....make s...more >>

I attempt to generate a .csr from my Win2003 Ent IIS6.0 and the following error appears when I input my org. unit = "my company # 50" The problem here is the character "#". Two questions: a) Why does this error occurs on IIS6.0 ? I tried the same steps on an II5.0 box, and it worked. b) Do...more >>

When i refresh my webpage 1 out of 5 times the first few lines of the HTML code is repeated in the bottom of the page. I have checked all HTML code and it is 100% correct. This started happening after I moved the site to a new server running windows 2003 IIS6. The server is fresh install wi...more >>

Hello guys. Im using windows server 2003 in hosting my website: (example) http://www.mywebsite.com now i want to have a different website attached to that url name: (example) http://mydomain.mywebsite.com how can i do this? thanks alot guys....more >>

So I ran into an interesting problem today, using XP Pro SP2 and I have IIS installed, it works and can serve pages, but when I create a new Virtual Directory and then go to the properties for it the Configuration button is available but when I click on it nothing happens. I have never seen t...more >>

Hi, I have been using iis 4.0 for years now and can usually fix any problems as they arise, but this one has me completely stumped and I'm considering calling product support to get it resolved. I am running IIS on nt 4.0 with all critical security patches, service packs and updates install...more >>

My colleague has just set up a Win2k3 server, and used the role wizard to set it up as an Application server (ASP/ASP.net etc). This has installed IIS and this appears to work, except ASP pages are not recognised. I have installed on of my ASP applications on this server, but when I call th...more >>

Hi folks, I am still using visual interdev 6 for developing asp based applications. Could any-one tell me what the official replacement is for this product? Also in VI6, having frontpage server extensions installed on the web server was mandatory to allow the product to work, do you know if ...more >>

How many sites can I setup in IIS6 ? My plan is to setup 2000 - 4000 sites each using its own hostheader. Are there any problems with that scenario? Linda ...more >>

I get 1168 returned on any query, delete I attempt with httpcfg. I've reinstalled IIS, Support tools, no good. Anyone have any ideas? TIA, CC...more >>

I am running a w2k with IIS and SMTP as a standalone in a DMZ. There are also a couple of web servers and sql 2000 servers that need the SMTP service to send out alerts. How do I go about setting a server to be the SMTP server?...more >>

Is there a way to change the way IIS 6.0 writes W3C Extended Log File Format properties to a log file. We are trying to position the log file properties in the same order as they were outputted by IIS 5.0. IIS 5.0 writes the W3C Extended Log File Format in the following order: #Fields: da...more >>

i'm new at this, so bear with me if i've tried some things that don't make sense. I'm trying to set up a dev environment to run ASP and COLD FUSION apps. I can see html files fine and I can see .cfm files. but here is THE PROBLEM: ..ASP files throw a 404 file not found, and nothing in ...more >>

We have Exchange 2003 back end server using SSL and self-issued certificate. This is causing security warnings, mainly for Mac users (both OWA and Entourage over SSL). We don't want to buy a new certificate just for Exchange, but we already have one on our web server. The web server is in DM...more >>

We are running a site for our employees on IIS6.0 on Win2000 server. Lately we have are getting severe problems , which are making the site inaccessible as soon the number of users increase. It works very fine during OFF -office hours but start crashing as soon users go up during office hour...more >>

Hi, One of my web boxes (Win2k)has recently started having intermintent web outages requiring me to restart IIS. I think that a new app has been introduced and it's causing the problems, the server is usually very stable. When I was looking for the problem, I noticed that there was 5 ...more >>