Hi, We are running a web application that has both ASP and ASP.NET pages on Win2000 SP4, .NET 1.1, IIS 5 From last few weeks, we are experiencing regular IIS "hangs" for ASP.NET. The symptoms are, requests for ASP.NET pages take infinite time so that IIS appears to have hung. Even the most ...more >>

All, I am getting following error while browsing my web site.. A ScriptEngine threw expection 'C0000005' in 'IActiveScriptParse::ParseScriptText()' from 'CActiveScriptEngine::AddScriptlet()'.. I am not able to find out any reason for the same. Any ideas on the same? I am running Windows 20...more >>

Hi, I'm in the situation where I want to get the absolute path of IIS code base directory (i.e. typically <website name>\bin ), without passing the website (virtual directory) name. As the default current directory (or working directory) for the IIS is "C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv", the "D...more >>

Hi, I have several pages under "Basic Authenticated" virtual directory visible to all users. To allow this, I have created a username and password. How can I prefill and submit the security dialog box, when user tries to access these pages. I do not want to move these pages out and to allow...more >>

G'Day All, I am trying to get IIS going. The Default Web Site is stopped and when I try to start it, I get the following message. Any ideas? Thanks "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." ...more >>

Hello everyone, I'm having issue with IIS after we lockdown security. Is there way to assign a user permissions to IIS (Specifically to have full control over a website) without having to be an administrator (This is how it was previously) I couldn't find anything like in SQL where you coul...more >>

I'm wondering if the following is possible with IIS... I have a virtual directory called "test". Let's say I'm using the ip address of '99.9.99.99' and port number of '9999'. In properties of the "test" directory I have "A redirection to a URL" checked and "http://localhost:9999" in the "Re...more >>

I am trying to get the IISADMPWD to run without allowing anonymous access. I have downloaded and added this patch http://support.microsoft.com/?id=833734 and every time I tried to changed the password with an expired account, it just reprompts me to log in. According to the KB article anon...more >>

The problem we are having can be reproduced with this short code segment; <%@ Language=VBScript %> <% Dim LoopCount for LoopCount = 1 to 1000 Response.Write "This is a test of some text" next Response.End %> When the browser is pointed to the IIS 4 machine this pa...more >>

Hi, Can somebody please tell me what needs to be configured to allow me to view a CGI page in IIS 6.0. I allowed "All Unknown CGI Extension" in the Web Service Extensions Folder. What else do I have to configure. Thanks ...more >>

Running IIS6 in a SBS2003 server and FP2003 My FP public site was working fine - but a few weeks ago I can not publish to it using FP FP tells me that the remote server may not have FP extensions installed. On the server, I uninstalled and re installed the server extensions - no luck. ...more >>

Could anyone help me to troubleshoot this ? I was suddently getting inetinfo.exe 100% cpu again! Opened log file 'C:\iisstate\output\IISState-1036.log' *********************** Starting new log output IISState version 3.3.1 Sun Feb 06 19:55:20 2005 OS = Windows 2003 Server Executable...more >>

I am trying to migrate from 2000 IIs 4.0 to 2003 IIS 6.0 and i am having trouble running perl scripts when accessed through the browser. Do i need to have a .pl MIME added into the metabase or should it work otherwise as well? Thanks! ...more >>

When I change the Connection Timeout property in IIS 6 and reset IIS it changes back to the default value of 120. How can I stop this behavior?...more >>

I have set IIS 6 to host some files for downloads. When a user downloads files they get the following error Internet Explorer cannot download filename from domainpath. The connection with the server was reset What setting am I missing?...more >>

I installed IIS but IIS SnapIn is not shown in the Add list in MMC. FYI, I verified that IIS is checked in the Add/Remove program. Does Anybody have an idea what file I am missing or what else I can do about this? ...more >>

Hi, One of our busier sites has started hanging in the last week or so, queries to the site just timeout, IIS itself doesn't crash but a 'memory could not be 'read'' event appears in the System Event log. The site has been partially re-written in .Net about 2-3 weeks ago but there have been n...more >>

Hello, I am seeing source HTTP event errors 15001 and 15000. The descriptions are: Event 15001: Unable to create the log file for site W3SVC1713575364. Make sure that the logging directory for the site is correct and this computer has write access to that directory. Event 15000: Unabl...more >>

I am getting the following error The registry key for IIS subauthenticator is not configured correctly on local machine, the anonymous password sync feature is disabled. Anyone have any suggestions??? I have not been able to find out anything on microsoft.com Thank you ...more >>

Hi all, I asked a similar question in iis.security, but no replies at all in almost a week. Perhaps I didn't ask it properly, or in the right group. We're trying to create a virtual directory on a standalone IIS6 box to access resources on a Netware box. Can create the virt. dir. and all ...more >>

I just set up a virtual directory in IIS using an UNC path and entering the username/password to access that network share. I'm able to read files there now, but cannot write to it. Using the same username/password to access the network share, I'm able to write just fine. How can I fix this p...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for an ISapi filter (or anything like this) to redirect any request mode to a virtual folder to a back end server (like a web proxy do) http://mycomputer1/virtualfolder --> http://mycomputer2/virtualfolder This filter must support authentication delegation. thanks for y...more >>

Hi, Im creating a virtual directory in local IIS with adsutil.vbs and I can set its path, but I can't find any documentation on how to set all the other options, like the Execute Permissions and Application Protection. Can someone point me at a web site that documents all of the path options? ...more >>

I am concerned about the potential memory consumption of multiple AppPools in a shared hosting scenario. Given ~350 concurrent w3wp processes (one AppPool for each site), memory will quickly be eaten up. I am noticing about 35MB memory usage by w3wp.exe for the most trivial of .aspx pages being ...more >>

OK, I've read every post here about webdav. I have win2k3 server, all latest service packs bla blah. NO Office server extensions. I have tried everything to get rid of FPSE, but they wont go away. I followed all the notes in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=221600 http://support.microsoft.co...more >>

I have installed IIS 5.1 on my machine (WinXP SP2) without the documentation initially. Now I need it, I've added it via Add/Remove Programs, and it created a %SYSTEMROOT%\Help\iisHelp directory with all the help files in it. I've created an iisHelp virtual directory which points there, but wh...more >>

Hello, I have a problem with my website, which is on a Windows 2003 server. I can't get some images to show up within web pages. Take this one for instance: http://www.jla-engineers.com/projects/RCHD/test.htm The only difference (I think) between the two images is that one goes to a WWW ad...more >>

Have IIS6 on a SBS2003 server. When I go to http://www.mydomain.com/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fpadmdll.dll?page=webadmin.htm I am prompted for a user name and then it tries to open the admin page but never succeeds. I have only one site on the server Any clue where to start looking ?? Pat...more >>

We have an application that communicates with a PLC in the field. All of the values from the PLC are written to registry keys under hkey_current_user\software\vb and vba programming\application name\subkey\value. We were trying to access the registry key directly using asp. I found a to...more >>

I'm running Dotnet on Windows 2003 and was wondering, can scripts write to files/folders outside of the webroot, for instance, in another drive? How about writing to a network share via UNC? Is that possible? If so can someone point me to documents that talk about this, or perhaps show me how...more >>

I used to be able to get frontpage to connect to my Small Business Server 2003 and publish web site changes over the internet. Now It no longer prompts me for my username and password and when I tell it to get the ceritficate it just hangs up. I reran the internet connection wizard and tol...more >>

Hi ALl, If I create an ASP.NET application and deploy it to IIS ,it works but if I want to install an ASP.NET application (any kind which uses setup file) ,,it just simply gives me some memory write errors and I can't install it,is it because the setup file can't create virtual direcotries ...more >>

I seem to be having this issue when trying to download a pdf from a asp.net web page over https: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812935#kb5 Is there anywhere I can download this fix (nearly a year old now?), I really don't want to risk getting billed £100 contacting P...more >>

If I use the MSJVM to run the applet it can POST to IIS6 with no problem If I switch to using the SunJVM/JRE the POST fails with a 400 error The SunJVM can post to IIS5 with no problem. So... what is it about sunjvm and/or IIS6 that is causing the problem? Posted via DevelopmentNow Groups www.de...more >>

I recently installed "Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager for Windows XP" on a XP SP2 Workstation and whenever I run the tool I get the following error: "Interface not registered" ...more >>

Running Win2003 and Asp.Net Created first HttpHandler application that works without any problems. When I created a second one, get the following error: Access denied to 'C:\Inetpub\vhosts\website.com\httpdocs'. Failed to start monitoring file changes. [HttpException (0x80070005): Acce...more >>

Given the name of a virtual directory I need to get the name of the physical directory (programmatically) ? I am running a .NET C# application. Any ideas ? Thanks, RM. ...more >>

Hi I use a cgi-bin counter script written in Perl to provide graphical counters on my site. Part of this relies on writing to a private directory not accesible on the web server. The script was located at http://www.website.com/cgi-bin/counter.pl and it used to simply have the path to wri...more >>

I can't run my Web applications after doing a build/rebuild in VS.Net. Doesn't matter if I open it within VS or from a seperate browser. The default page just doesn't load. I can't run any other applications after canceling the action, and am forced to shut the power down manually. I've post...more >>

Does anyone know where I can find info on how to run CGI Scripts in IIS 5.0 or what is the equivalent for CGI Scripts? Thanks ...more >>

...more >>

When web clients access our production server, they receive the following error: Error 500 - 12 Application Restarting Internet Information Services Couple of articles on the KB allude to the global.asa file being modified and/or being scanned by an antivirus program. Has anyone else expe...more >>

I tried pulling my .asp webpages in Internent Explorer which was prepared with DMX and I had the error below. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005' [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Dri...more >>

I am hoping to use IIS 6 and BITS as a mechanism to upload files from remote sites to a centralized server. I've done some test configurations, and the bandwidth throttling features of IIS 6 seem to affect BITS downloads, but not uploads. Is there some other way to affect the upload rate of BIT...more >>

Hello All, I want to publish my website from behind a firewall, how can I do that? Here is my setup. I have a small intranet which is configured as follows Router facing the internet configured with NAT so port redirect has been configured. IIS is installed on a SBS2K server behind t...more >>

I am new to servers. I am running a network with Windows Server 2003 SE. I have a very simple form created with Dreamweaver, and I want the information from it to be sent to my e-mail. I am using a PHP script to handle the 'action' of the form (nvform.php). Thanks to these discussion groups I was...more >>

I will be loading a certificate ona win2k server using iis 5 and am trying to figure out how to only ssl certain subdirectories & 2 pages, so that the rest of the public site can be accessed using http I'm a rookie at this and any help / step-by-step info would be greatly appreciated. Thank...more >>

I have two xp machines. This is my code on machine1 Dim m As MailMessage = New MailMessage m.From = "myFromAddr@bogus.com" m.To = "myToAddr@bogus.com" m.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Text m.Subject = "typeOfAction" m.Body = "this is the body of my tes...more >>

I have an error very similar to others here but steps i have taken have failed to rectify the problem. When I try to display an asp or html file in my localhost i get the 500 Internal Server Error. If I turn of the friendly messages it displays: Server Application Error The server has en...more >>

I’ve built an IIS server on W2000 server SP4 that will allow users to access a database on of our live server on the network My question is how is the user is directed to the data on the database server ...more >>

I have IIS 5.0 configured to send everything to a non-MS smarthost. Outbound Security is Basic Authentication w/user+pass over TLS. This has been working fine for 6 months, but stopped working the other day when the smarthost's root certificate expired. I deleted all traces that I could find o...more >>

I'm looking to add a firewall for a Windows 2003 web server that's running IIS, FTP, and SQL Server. I've looked at Kerio Server Firewall and I like their intrusion prevention and application hardening features. However the price tag looks to be a little high, at $600 + subscription fees. ...more >>

I have a Windows 2003 Standard Edition Server running IIS. I have enabled loging for my websites and it logs all site activity to daily files. All hosting companies, that I have seen, have an "Admin" section for thier users that shows them site statistics such as number of unique visitors, mos...more >>

hi, My web application has a link for file download (This file is stored in Database in Binary format). After clicking on which "File Download" dialog will appear. In this the file name is getting junk. Please note that Its a Japanese web site and the web application is hosted on Win2K advan...more >>

Scenario: Win2003 webServer Win2003 SQL DBserver Both same domain ..NETframework 1.1 IIS virtual directory "/HAS" on webServer points to physical code (including "bin" directory) on DBserver network share (i.e. \\hasdevdb1\has) When browse to http://localhost/has on webServer I get the...more >>

I cannot seem to get FrontPage Extensions working on a Windows 2000 Server we have. It has IIS5. I have removed and reinstalled them, but when I go to another computer and try and add it to my network places, it tells me this is not a valid location. I must admit, I am new to this IIS thi...more >>

I am having an argument with someone right now about permissions and the anonymous IUSER. This person has insisted that I give the IUSER write permissions to a web site he is developing so that he can get his ASP code to work. I have compromised by creating a subdirectory for him. My ideal se...more >>

We have IIS 6 running on an Exchange 2003 server (Win2K3) with an extension called Public Folder Viewer. All users can access the website but when a topic is expanded and a link to a subject is clicked on a Windows authentication dialogue appears entitled "Connect to <NameOfExchangeServer>.comp...more >>

I have created a new site and imported the original site in from another server. I am having a problem with the forms, I am unable to add an e-mail address for the results to be sent to. When I try to add the e-mail in FrontPage I recieve the following message: "This form cannot be configure...more >>

I have a website that uses ASP and VB6 SP5 DLLs. The DLL uses winsock APIs. About every two days, the lookups that I am doing stop working and I get an error message "out of memory". When this happens, I can still call the home page, enter lookup criteria, and attempt the lookup. The error com...more >>

Hi, Tried looking for similar problems, but cannot locate any previous posts.. I have a simple app that uses hidden form fields (userID,password) carried from page to page with a POST and retrieved on the next page and validated against a file. All works well, except that every so often, usu...more >>

I just put a cert on 2 servers. One is our outlook web access website and ther other is a normal web server with login. After I put on the cert the sites still attempt to connect via http://. How do I make them automatically use the https:// without the user getting the error page about us...more >>

Sometimes we have two w3wp processes running. One by user Network service and one by SYSTEM. Why does this happen? The same happens with _IISCHAgent.exe Helge ...more >>

Hi all, I removed our win2k Pki root authority certificate server some time ago where root iis5.0 web server exists, now seeing crypto errors in W3svc root log for the old authority like it still exists but can not connect to it. Tried removing any old root server certificate store objects from...more >>

Does the web.config file control ASP applications running under IIS 6.0? Thanks ...more >>

Hello, I have developed an asp webpage that is suppose to pull a database record. However, I am getting the below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The page cannot be displayed There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it ...more >>

Hi We have migrated from IIS 5.0 to IIS 6.0 and noted that the IIS Utility components are not installed by default. I read in the "What's Changed in IIS-document" that: "You can obtain copies of the utility component DLL files from the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit" I then tried downloading t...more >>

Server 2003, standard. I have installed the internet information service component that allows a website to be created and placed into the wwwroot file. My only problem is that all user's internal, external or logged onto the domain need to enter a username and password. The site is only av...more >>

This might be silly Question. Sorry, but I am rather new to IIS I have been looking at something called MRTG. Se more on http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/ Well, I have succeded to make some flies in my c:\intepub\wwwroot\mrtg which tracks my Nortelswitches. Nothing fancy ! T...more >>

I have multiple websites on IIS 6 that I want to have SSL. I discovered that I must use a separate SSL certificate for each website. I have only one IP so I'll have to use different ports for each website. If I go this route, then my question has to do with ports. I know 443 is the default...more >>

I've installed IISState according to the instructions on www.iisfaq.com But I'm confused 1. Where can I find the dll's that need to be copied to \iisstate? I couldn't find them at the mentioned link. What about the files that got installed with the iisstate installation? 2. I installed the Wind...more >>

I have to write some sendmail code in .net. It's easy to write but Earthlink (my ISP) blocks my smtp generated mail. How can I test out my email code? Is there a way to set up POP3 on my other xp pro machine and send to it? Thanks, G ...more >>

What's the best/easiest way to get PHP to work with IIS? I already have IIS set up and have experience with ASP but I want to run PHP from this server too. Is there any Windows Installers that automatically set PHP up for IIS? TIA. ...more >>

I have setup a website which uses an old DLL file (created with Delphi 6.0) created by another individual. What I would like to do is: Be able to update (over-write) the DLL file with an updated DLL file from time to time (this is an automated process - anytime the file <dllname>.update is...more >>

I am trying to install an ASP.NET application onto a Windows XP Laptop for demo purposes where there is no internet connection available. The application has been deployed on servers and is known to work. I have very limited experience with IIS configuration -- I normally handle the softw...more >>

Right now we access our ftp site via the external ip address assigned to our router. How can I set this up to be accessed via ftp.mydomain.com. through iis. Or is this a change in the router that will have to be may (via our isp). Thanks Ray ...more >>

Hi I have a Windows Server 2003 web server. After a while, apparently without any good reason, w3wp goes to 100 % cpu. Thread ID: 17 is taking all the cpu time, but what's it doing? Any help is appreciated! The IIState dump follows: Opened log file 'C:\iisstate\output\IISState-4732.log...more >>

I installed sharepoint services about six months ago and all was fine until yesterday...."The Web site that is referenced here is not in the configuration database" comes up instead of my top level website. I tried to do everything related to this error that was in the knowledge base but no...more >>

I have a Samba share that I've created from a Linux box. I've mapped this sucessfully to drive in Windows 2003 server. I'm also able to read/write to it under Windows explorer just fine. It's using user security so I have to enter the username and password defined in the Linux box when connect...more >>

I keep getting a 500 error when going to a certain directory that's made from a virtual folder using UNC. I looked in the log file and found this: 2005-02-03 15:25:17 192.168.1.150 GET /aa/test.jpg - 81 - 192.168.1.150 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) - 500...more >>

I have a web app running iis 6.0 / jrun 3.1 ... when jrun hangs it blows up IIS too ... anyway to prevent that? ...more >>

Hi, We have an ISAPI dll implemented which is working well with both IIS 6.0 and 5.0. But when we monitered the network packets between IIS server and the browser, IIS 6.0 seem to be sending the page, line by line while IIS 5.0 is sending the information a page at a time. Is this an expecte...more >>

Hi, I have a total newbie question: how do I make IIS aware of an activex dll so I can use it with an ASP page? I am trying to use a zip/unzip dll and it works fine with a simple VB app but not from ASP. Alternately, if someone knows of a simple zip/unzip control that DOES work with IIS/ASP p...more >>

I'm executing an ASP script wich needs at least 8,5 minutes to generate a file (.csv) on the server. After exactly 2 minutes the server returns a DNS error page to the browser. The script execution continues though and after 8,5 minutes you find the generated file in its folder. I'm on a hosti...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for a way how to hide all URL in my web browser. i don't want to use the frame for that... for example : my welcome page is : www.test.com (thanks IIS settings regarding first page), but after if i place the mouse cursor on "tasks" link, status bar shown me :www.test....more >>

I am using IIS 5.1, and it is set to listening to port 80. Now IIS does not start when I reboot and login using my user profile. I can not start it manualy either. It shows "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740" consistantly. This is not happen when I use Administrator to reboot and login. I found tha...more >>

I don't see any error logging in IIS6 running on Windows 2003 server. Where do I enable this feature or find the log? I'm getting a 500 error message in a page and need to find out why. ...more >>

Help! use SSI-files in iis 6.0 - get 404 error ...more >>

Hi all. I have a working website on a shared account thru my hosting company. I'm now moving this to a dedicated server running Win2003 and IIS 6.0. Part of the "plan" that I've opted for requires that I become the server administrator. I am **not** a server person, but can learn quick...more >>

Does IIS keep a log file of accesses and errors? If so, how do I access it. Many thanks. ...more >>

Hello folks. Play broken record here... Running IIS 6 and app pools hang on ASP apps. Looking for any help people can offer. Log file posted in two sections. Thanks in advance, -Brad Part 1 ------ Opened log file 'C:\iisstate\output\IISState-10272.log' *********************** S...more >>

I am also experiencing problems with the w3wp.exe process using 100% CPU and running away with memory and IIS not serving up any pages. The web applications are ASP. Based on other posts to this newsgroup, I have included a ADPlus log below. The command line to adplus.vbs was -iis -pn w3...more >>

Can anyone point me to a "how-to" article on how to configure IIS and directory permissions for an ASP.NET web application that is to be worked on by several different developers simultaneously via Visual Studio.NET? My client here has not done this before and I confess to not having done it ...more >>

I have installed IIS 5.1 on Windows XP and when I try to start the IIS Admin Service I am getting the following error: Could not start the IIS Admin service on Local Computer. Error 8: Not enough storage is available to process this command I have over 5 GB of disk space available, it shou...more >>

Hey everyone... This might seem like a stupid question, but I figured I'd take a risk at being flamed. I sort of work in a disconnected environment. Does anyone know of a way to get the name of a connected remote user VIA classic ASP when they aren't actually part of the domain? I know you us...more >>

I added a site the server and it can be reached by going to the address of http://servername How can I set it up so that is accessed by going to http://servername/sitename only. I have future applications going on the server and do not want this site overriding the server's name in the url. S...more >>

I updated my DC's and recently started having problems with ASP pages. I went throught the troubleshooting doc for ASP and IIS5.0 (I have Win2k AD) but got "Error: 80110414:", which after some research states that IWAM and AD got out of sync and to manually resync to use ADSUTIL. When I u...more >>

Hi, My question is : Is there a recomended number of Websites you should have on IIS or is it just memory question ? How can i figure out thru a formel how much memory that i need or how many servers i have to set up. Scenario: 1 IIS server 5 websites (seperate IP-adr), aprox: 100 hits p...more >>

Hi, I want to install an IIS alternate server and I'd would like to know what must I do: - Use iiscnfg and backup directories structure but I think iiscnfg don't save paths - What else I can do? Anybody have other solutions Thanks in advance ...more >>

hi, I am new to applicationi pooling concept. I have few sites, with asp and ..net framework enabled. I have few very basic queries - 1. what is application pooling 2. how can i deciede how much vertual and physical memory should i allocate to my application / site 3. what is worker proce...more >>

Is it possible to redirect many urls? Let's say a.htm should go to b.htm, c.htm to d.htm, ..., postinfo.html to index_de.htm etc. I need to have many pairs, about a houdred. For a start I tried with only one pair. Here is what I've done: http://www.mim-sraga.hr/zvuk/iis_redirection.gif But it...more >>

Please HELP.. My website is not published as I only host my email currently. When I write my website name it goes to my firewall setup page asking for my username and password. Why is this happening? How can I prevent this from happening? ...more >>

Hallo, i have some problems with IIS installed on a Windows 2003 System. I rendomly get a problem with my IIS Server. --- Event ID: 1012 A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' exceeded time limits during start up. The process id was '2864'. --- The time the Event is loged is...more >>

I am using an ASP application running on Win 2003, IIS6 and Project Server 2003. The ASP application allows me to run it using Windows Authentication, it uses SOAP to communicate with Project Server. Without going into much detail, i have an issue where the application tries to read/wri...more >>

I have a test server runinng 2003/IIS 6 with a mixture of asp and asp.net files. On my workstation I have a share set up to the folder where the web files reside. I am just doing quick and dirty asp editing (like I used to be able to do with 2K/IIS5) where I use VS.NET, open an asp file, make...more >>

I'm trying to setup my IIS 6.0 server which supports ASP.NET. Basically, it works after installing framework. But I'm not sure which account I should grant to the folder (the home directory located to network share) to make user's browser can run my aspx file. It works if I grant Authentica...more >>

Hi all! I'm running Windows 2000 Server and IIS 5. I have protected a web directory so that Internet users have to insert username and password in order to view asp pages that are in that directory. I don't realize why some users correctly see the classic authentication dialog box but other...more >>

Hi all. I have a windows 2003 server with IIS 6 installed. I have it setup as simple as it gets. I'm serving a folder with static webpages as http://localhost for testing, which works just fine. I created, and imported a *.der SSL certificate. Set IIS to accept SSL connections on defa...more >>

I could use some assistance with a problem I'm having with IIS: I'm running Windows 2000 servers with IIS, each with multiple web sites and a seperate IP assigned to each site on the server. My problem surfaces when I stop a site in IIS. The site, while stopped still has IIS listening on ...more >>

This blocklist is suspect because of the criminal past (convicted felon) of its proprietor/owner Brian Bruns and the usual suspects, i.e. Andrew Kirch, et al! http://freespeechstore.com/public/Sub_Public6/2637_Be_Careful_Before_You_Utilize_ahbl.org_or_sosdg.org__Brian_Bruns_For_Possible_Lawsuit...more >>

Today I needed to renew my SSL cert in 2003 web edition. I've had the cert in iis for a year no problems. So, when I click to renew the cert it asks where I want to save the request, I navigate to a folder. I click to submit the request but I receive an: Access is Denied failed to gen...more >>

Does anyone know of a tool that will automatically archive IIS log files after xx days / weeks / months ? ...more >>

Hello, everyone: I'm having some difficulty, and I'm hoping that someone out there has some insight. I have attached a lot of materials to this post, so if I refer to something, and you don't see it right away, just scroll down. Last week, I implemented an account lockout policy on our Wi...more >>

I am in a puzzling situation and am seeking some advice. I have set up a Visual Studio project in a Virtual Directory in IIS. I am running Windows 2003 Server, IIS 6.0, .Net 1.1. I have .html, .asp, .aspx pages all in this folder. The .html and .aspx pages open and run just fine, but the .ASP...more >>

Hi I have server with 2003 and on one server the logfiles is coming up nice as it should do but on the other server no logfiles are produced. I cant find the difference so any help will be welcome. Regards Kent...more >>

Hello All, I need to multihome a web server running IIS 5.0. I have the IP addresses but I'm not certain about how to configure IIS to have the site answer on both IPs properly. I've done a google search but since my searching skills aren't as strong as they should I was overwelmed with meanin...more >>

I have created a software package that uses the SMTP service to send email and it works fine. However, the setup process is rather painful. Is there any documentation on how to install and configure this silently or programmatically. It would make our presentation to customers far more dr...more >>

I have McAffee Internet Security 2005. I suspect it is stopping IIS working properly because I can no longer browse to local websites (on my own pc) since installing it. Is there a known issue here? Is there a workaround besides uinstalling it? I've also tried removing & reinstalling IIS...more >>

I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise server running as my webserver and I can't figured out how to allow it to let me download documents with the wpd extention. pdf, doc, txt, zip all work fine but when I have the wpd extention it says it can't find it. Even when I turn on directory browsing and ri...more >>

Hi Folks, I´ve a simple question, what´s the metabase properties that ´s "Host Header Name". I´m trying to find out. But the documentation in http://whidbey.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref/htm/AlphabeticMetabasePropertyList.asp isn´t clear. Tk...more >>

Hi. We are finishing an asp.net application that will be hosted on one of our servers. Actually, our customers access an existing application through an IP address, like: 192.176.155.10/App. This application resides on a virtual directory under the Default Web Site, in IIS 6.0. We want that...more >>

Hi I have read a lot about how to use one IP Address to Host Multiple Domains on IIS 5.0, but lets say that I would like to host multiple sites without any fqdns? Normally I would make changes to host header like this Host Header - www.a.com IP Address - All Unassigned Port Number - 8...more >>

hi there, i have made a few asp pages that i wanted to set up on my 2003 sbs server so that i could build a mini intranet, these asp pages are linked to an access database, i have no experiance of using servers or iis so when i set up my 2003 sbs server i didnt connect it to the intern...more >>

Hi, I am trying to use DirectoryServices in C# to create a Virtual Directory on a Win2003/IIS6 server. I am using AppCreate3 to bind the Application with the ApplicationPool. When I execute the program on my Win2000/IIS5 PC targetting my Win2003/IIS6 Server everything works (AppPool crea...more >>