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 >>

Are there any new security settings for controlling access to the cmd shell in XP Pro? In Win 2000, I have been able to execute a .EXE program from HTML using IIS. When using XP Pro, the program runs (it generates an debug file with the proper data from my HTML form), but when the program ...more >>

Hi, I have an intranet server set up on W2K03/IIS 6 (regular ASP and ASP.NET) which normally works fine with NTLM authentication. This morning, users would log in, then be unable to access some pages. Clicking on a link would send a request from the browser, which would then sit there spinni...more >>

THIS WORKED UNDER WINDOWS 2000 In IIS, I have an application that is executed from an HTML page using a form. It's purpose is to create an input file by editing a template file based on information in the form, then kick off another DOS based program that uses the input file and produces...more >>

I have 2 backup servers (w2k) and backup our company files every 24 hours. 1 is on our LAN, the other is remote on the Internet. Is there a utility to also copy the iis properties and settings so I will have a leg-up if we need to activate one of these backups. Any advice or pointers appre...more >>

Hi, We develop a document management solution that is written in ASP and runs on IIS5 and IIS6. We use a Microsoft Knowledgebase technique to securely access files through an ASP page and stream them to the browser. Our technique is based on this Microsoft Article: http://support....more >>

Hi there, I'm running a windows 2000 advanced server box, running the .NET framework. Every day or so, the asp.net websites become unobtainable, with a page cannot be displayed message. Normal HTML sites work fine, it's just the asp.net ones that don't. Killing the aspnet_wp.exe proces...more >>

I have 2 nlb clustered web servers (iis 6, w2k3, patched to latest) that seem to be having issues. They were hanging with no events reported. I decided to recycle the apppools the were under the greatest load three times a day to free up resources and now see this error in my event logs wh...more >>

I am having some problems with log files in IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003. I have set the new log schedule to "daily", but even though a new log file is created every day, the old log files seem to get deleted, so I only ever have the current day's log in the logfiles directory. Obviously this ...more >>

Hi, my W2000 SP4 IIS5 server doesn't work with *.ASP, I get an HTTP 500 - Internal server error. I receive an error message like the following in the system event log: Source: DCOM Event ID: 10010 User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Description: The server {3D14228D-FBE1-11D0-995D-00C04FD919C1} did n...more >>

We have two extranet sites (IIS 6) on the same server (Win 2003). Both sites is using basic authentication (with SSL), and gets the user’s credentials from the same AD. We can’t use anonymes access. Each site has its own IP-address. The users are using the following URL to access the...more >>

All, I am running IIS on Windows 2000 server and I am in the process of cleaning IIS up. Some of the virtual directories are no longer needed and have by deleted from IIS and the hard disk. If I run the check server extension it tells me lots of virtuals directorties cannot be found i.e t...more >>

Hi all, we develop a custom workflow engine based on Windows Sharepoint Services 2.0 SP1 event handlers. Everything works fine with a few documents, but as there are several modifications done on events (workflow instance and metadata on documents, in addition to several checks requiring reading...more >>

I am unable to reference any web page using http://localhost as a prefix. If I substitute "127.0.0.1" or "192.168.1.101" (the intranet address) for "localhost", it works okay. The environment is Windows XP Pro SP2, IIS 5.1, .NET Framework 1.1, new install. Windows Firewall is off. This ...more >>

Hi, I'm not able to start the Default Web Site? Rgs, /Kjell ...more >>

Hi! I'm trying to set an application in IIS to run as an isolated process, as that seems to be required to debug it. Somehow I get the message "User/Password authentication failed" when I try to set application protection to high. Anyone know why? I'm logged on as admin. and I HAVE got axx t...more >>

NT 4 IIS 4 I cannot get my asp pages to work anymore - I did some patches and then was unable to pull up the help files and figured out it was the asp pages that weren't working. Htm works fine. When I go to upload asp pages to the server it says : This server does not support ASP continu...more >>

I am thinking about the best way to design my network to support several web servers. I can either put them out in front of my hardware firewall with a public IP and install a software firewall on them, or just put the DNS server out in front of the firewall with a public IP and then put al...more >>

Hi, I'm having crashes on IIS 5.1 on regular bases on my Win XP Pro and would like to upgrade to 6.0 to see if this stabalizes my environment! How can I get hold of an upgrade or standalone 6.0 installations? So far, I've just seen it bundled with Server 2003? Rgs, /Kjell ...more >>

I use IIS 6.0 for port 80 traffic. I have a service that requires the Apache Web Server be installed and this service will be using SSL (tied to a seperate IP assigned to the secondary NIC for this purpose). All port 80 traffic is inoperative. It's using the IP of the other onboard NIC. I ...more >>

The subject says it all. I am looking for a cheap solution to monitors a client's website and want to know if and when it goes down. I have a really CHEAP client how wants to host his company's website on cable model. I want to monitor is so that I could tell him how unreliable it is....more >>

Hi all, i'm having a bit of a problem here. My IIS Admin service will not start (running IIS6 on W2k3 server). The error message it returns is ' Could not start the IIS Admin Service on Local Computer. Error 2: The System cannot fine the file specified' I've looked in the knowledge base, bu...more >>

I am looking to turn on ODBC Logging for my FTP site running on Windows XP Pro. The only options I get are W3C Extended Log File Format, and Microsoft IIS Lot File Format. Is ODBC Logging available on Windows XP Pro SP2? Thanks, Jeff...more >>

I am lucky enough to be the proud owner of an previously loved P3 350Mhz, dual Xeon processor with 1GB of RAM and six SCSI RAID 9GB HDs. Would this server class box be better served as an IIS server or as a SQL Server machine? I'm currently running IIS on an 800Mhz with 256MB and a 40GB HD...more >>

I fresh installed XP PRO SP2 on a new machine. Installed IIS 5.1 and could access sites in the local host. However, I have difficulty accessing these sites from machines within the same network. Authentication is set for Anonymous access. What am I doing wrong?. Also, I don't find FTP install...more >>

Hi, Although I don't understand the reason to change the application protection to high, I have to change it because our other component requires. My question is on some our qa boxes, when I do that I do get User Password/Validation Failed error and fix it according to KB 296851. but on ou...more >>

I have a complex web application that uses the Microsoft WebServices Behavior (webservices.htc) to communicate from the client to a group of web services written in .NET 1.1. It runs fine on Windows 2000 with IIS 5. I've moved it to a Windows 2003 servier with IIS 6. Now when the client cal...more >>

We are a second tier ISP based in Australia who has recently started pushing Windows based hosting as an additional revenue stream. We currently host 700 websites on a load balanced IIS6.0 based server with a NAS backend. We are currently experiencing problems with our IIS 6.0 / UNC configur...more >>

We have two extranet sites (IIS 6) on the same server (Win 2003). Both sites is using basic authentication (with SSL), and gets the user’s credentials from the same AD. We can’t use anonymes access. Each site has its own IP-address. The users are using the following URL to access the ...more >>

I need to create a virtual directory so I can run .aspx pages in sharepoint, but I cannot seem to get it to work. I created a virtual directory called "RSS" that has a simple index.html file in it... this directory is in IIS/Web Sites/Default Web Site/ along with the _layouts and _vti_bin ......more >>

Hi I cant get my ASP page to work in iis 6.0. it is allowed in iis (web service ext.) I get HTTP 500 ( with no friendly I get The requested resource is in use.) my log: 2005-02-24 15:35:28 127.0.0.1 GET /Default.asp - 80 - 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1...more >>

I can`t install IIS on XP Pro. I wen to Add\Remove windows com.. ,click the check box of IIS etc.. when it tryed to install needed files it asked me to put XP Pro SP2 CD, I did it. But it can`t find needed files, I also can`t locate them. Thank`s...more >>

Hi, My ASP code was working find in windows 2000 server under ISS 5, but now after migrating to windows 2003 server my same asp form does not work in remote users sites who are using port no. to access our server. However the from my desktop same asp works well. My remote users get Invalid use...more >>

Dear all, Can I setup IIS FTP over HTTP/HTTPS? I find some solution, maybe WebDav can do that. But I hope can use another method to make it. Thank you. ...more >>

hello, i am running iis 6 in my sbs 2003 pro and hosting about 5 different websites. lately i noticed something very unusuall. for instace if i go to domain a, domain b web pages will show and if i go to domain c, domain b webpages will show. there's no pattern and every time a website from...more >>

IIS 4.0/ NT4.0 sp6a My problem is this, please someone help, I've spent days trying to figure this out on my own: I have set up my web server and have 2 domains that I want on one IP. Domains are registered and parked at networksolutions, so I forward them to my IP on my server. If ...more >>

Hi all, Beginner question. I had a network contain Windows 2003 AD Domain with an NT 4.0 BDC running IIS for intranet. I am thinking of upgrading it. Thinking of Windows 2003 with IIS. The problem is that everybody calls the intranet using the server name e.g. http://MSServer01 will...more >>

I have a web site that has links to a few .mpg video files. When I just open the html file in IE and click the link, the video plays fine. When the page is served by IIS, I get the following error: "Windows media player cannot play this file. Connect to the internet or insert the removabl...more >>

I asked this question on the FrontPage newsgroup and attached the details below. Major question is: (I found the following information from one of the replies. If this is true, is there any way to make the search feature works? | "In Windows 2003 server, the default FP search feature is disa...more >>

I've developed an ASP.NET app which performs office automation using the Office 2003 PIAs. It was developed on an XP machine and I was able to set permissions (running IIS5) to got this working. When I attempt to deploy this to our Windows 2003 / IIS6 machine, I get run in circles by variou...more >>

Hello All: For the past several days, our virus software has found and deleted a backdoor trojan which was destined for our webserver. This came from the outside, not in since no other clients on the network show any signs of infections. My question is this. How are these files being sent t...more >>

Hello, I do have some past exp with IIS, but I have just started a new job and the company I am with changed hosting companies last year. Unfortunatly this was at a busy time for them as far as web traffic is concerned. They are now hoping to look through the logs and be able to analyze som...more >>

I am familiar with how IIS functions (from previous exp), but unfortunatly our website hosting company from 4/04-7/04 has just simply provided us with the log files from each day. 1 log file may look like this (below) is there any any to decifer, import, or otherwise understand what this mean...more >>

I am running iis 6.0 through SBS 2003. I host several of my own sites, some of which use SQL Server or Access as back ends, and some of which are just plain sites. I added another site yesterday evening (an ASP/SQL Server site) using the wizard, and although I enabled Anonymous Access via IU...more >>

When I try to browse page with the content listed down , IE shows message: Welcome.In WebServerLand the time is currently, but it doesn't show time. I have IIS 5.1 and Visual Studio.NET. I' new in this so any help is welcome. tnx;) <script language="c#" runat="server"> void Page_Load() ...more >>

Hello, I am setting up an Windows 2003/IIS6 server. Windows, iis6 and sql have been installed so far but nothing has been configured. In preparing to secure this server, I came across a SANS Institute article for securing IIS6. It recommends moving the Inetpub directory off of C: to anot...more >>

XP SP2. I have version 5.0 of the IIS Admin MMC snap-in. My colleague has 5.1. How do I update my version? I think I need to because my Configuration button (in the properties dialog) doesn't do anything. You click it and nothing happens. ...more >>

Hi, We received the following 2 error mesages in our log file. Does anybody know what they are? 1. Connection_Abandoned_By_AppPool 2. Timer_ConnectionIdle Any input regarding this is greatly appreciated. -- Greg...more >>

Hi, I want my IIS SMTP server to send mail through a email gateway. Is there a way to route all output mails to a didicate server? Regards, Jeremy ...more >>

I have IIS 6 on Win 2003 server. I’m trying to configure Custom 404 error pages for one site in IIS and the page that I created is not being displayed. I have gone into the “properties” of that website and went to the “Custom Errors” tab and choose “file” and pointed to the file ...more >>

Hi, I am having a very annoying problem and wondering if you can help. I have a web application which is hosted in Croydon UK and is used/accessed our client in New York.The website is all developed in ASP.Net/C# and SQL Server 2000. The accessibility is provided by using a secured GRE tunnel...more >>

- Win2k3 Server - running MS Exch2k3 IIS is running to support OWA, but on occaision it BSD's and gives me a HTTP.SYS - BUG CHECK - STOP:0x00000050 error, several of them in a row in fact. After it dumps it always reboots, but not until after the 3rd of 4th time BSD. Is HTTP.SYS no...more >>

When I visit a web page I'm getting a network login prompt. I'm trying to figure out why this is happening. The web server is running IIS on Win2003 server. I've configured a virtual directory within IIS that maps to another server. The virtual directory is working fine. When I visit the...more >>

I run at Windows 2003 server IIS 6.0 I want to limit: Connections limited to 1000 it works perfect But I don't want to the message: Service Unavailable when 1001 connections I have tried to change 403.9, but I got the same message, what wrong? ...more >>

After adding an extension to IIS5.1, I needed to restart IIS to get it to recognize my new extension and hand it off to asp.net. Has anyone else needed to do this? And why wouldn't this work with a reboot? This same problem does not exist on IIS6 as I just copied over the web project, add...more >>

I am having problems with my IIS on my development box and would like to pitch IIS and redo it from scratch. However I do not want to redo my entire box. Is it possible to just pitch IIS without turfing .net? Any links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Problems? I cannot map URLs a...more >>

I am running IIS 6.0 with several websites containing different .asp pages. Everything works fine. All .asp pages work, shopping carts work, contact forms work. After about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks or so, my server stops displaying the .asp pages. All other pages (htm, html) work fine. No error mes...more >>

hi ng, Is it possible to share a DFS domain root through WebDAV service? How I can do this, if it's possible? Very Thanks Wolfgang Friesenecker ...more >>

I am totally new to hosting websites on IIS and I would really like to get a starting point a book or something. Anything you can suggest. I am not looking for someone to give me ready made solutions, just a starting point. I come from a background where (I work for an ISP) we had all out sites...more >>

Hi, I deployed my ATL Server web service to a Windows 2003 Enterprise Server box (created a virtual dir, copied MyWebSvc.dll, MyWebSvcIsapi.dll, MyWebSvc.disco, MyWebSvc.htm into it, configured the execute permissions and the mappings). I then tried to tickle it via a web browser using...more >>

Last time I couldn't start it... Solved that, now I get the following output: After this output it won't write a dump, and it has the same exit message when using -sc or -hc... Can someone point me where to look? Tnx! Raymond C:\iisstate>iisstate -p 2948 -hc -d Symbol search path ...more >>

OK I have recently been asked to create a system that will export the IIS metabase from my production server, modify the IP's it listens to and import the new setup to a DR ssystem in case something happens to our center. Well I wrote a perl script that did just that on a Windows 2003 system ...more >>

Hello, I want to redirect my web site on my internal LAN. I have registered site on active host. I want to redirect site on my live ip 202.x.x.x configured on my live windows 2003 server. that server also redirect on private ip 192.x.x.x of my another web site in LAN. Both has insta...more >>

For some reason, when I try to upload a file to my web server using the HtmlFile Control, the Request.Files is empty/null. The same code has worked for at least a year and now it has stopped. I am getting an error "Index was out of range" on the Request.Files[0] . Can someone please help?...more >>

I am running windows 2000 server and IIS5. Recently I installed a verisign temporary SSL cert and applied it to the necessary virtual directories/folders. Now that I have done this I am not able to access the ASP pages. I get a "The Page Cannot Be Found" error page. I even made a blank d...more >>

Can someone please tell me if there is a way to configure an IIS server so that a users domain is defaulted. Within the intranet zone things are handled just fine with the use of a group policy, but from the outside user must use domain\username, password in order to login. This is just too ...more >>

Hey all, Not the brightest on IIS 6. One of my webservers is getting this error in the event logs. The developers have been playing around and would like to get some input on how to troubleshoot this issue. I have the concerning error just below and then the series of errors before this ...more >>

I have a perl script that tries to do a redirect. It works fine with IIS 5 and 5.1, but dies with 6, which complains "The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers." The script returned Status: 302 Moved location: logon.pl?Retry=true What else...more >>

Hello, Running a Win2k box. Every few hours, IIS decides to stop serving asp pages. The machine has multiple hosts on it and this occurs with ALL asp pages. Running IISrecycle resolves the issue. Any ideas? Thanks Dave -----------------------------------------------------------...more >>

Hi, We just upgraded to 2003 server from 2000, and for some reason IIS isn't showing us the "Application Pools" tree. Likewise, "Application Pool" is not an option on the Web site / Home Directory tab. Did IIS or Inetmgr somehow not get upgraded? I checked the version of inetinfo.exe, and i...more >>

Hi all; I have install IIS on windows xp sp2. i have design and copy my website to wwwroot folder. My site access to MDB database. i brows my web with http://localhost/myweb/index.asp, it does not work, it says my MDB is readonly. ** But if i start http://localhost/iisstart.asp first, then...more >>

Hello, I have found several posting refering to the same issue, but I still can not find the answer to my problem. I installed the IISState tool, created a dump file, but don't know what to do with it. I also have a log file. Can someone help. I really appreciate it. Thanks, Alexis Here is...more >>

I posted this message in microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.smtp_nntp which is not explicitly stated as being a msdn supported group, but it is a subset of this group. So is it supported or not? If not, I can post it yet another time here or somewhere else. Kal ...more >>

I'm getting the following Warning: The directory specified for caching compressed content C:\WINDOWS\IIS Temporary Compressed Files is invalid. Static compression is being disabled. I've checked permissions on the folder, and all seems correct. Could the folder itself be corrupt? Can't f...more >>

We are trying to download files from a system running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 using HTTP "GET" with the Inet ActiveX control. The transfer if data appears to reset after an hour on different clients in different cities using different transfer speeds. Are there any server variables that set the tr...more >>

I have win 2k ad server I was configuring IIS to make a web site I have created a folder with html file inside it in c:\. The web site was named as test. When I was going to brows it, it was showing the message address alrady in use. I know that I am testing this site in stand alone p...more >>

Hi, I have a strange problem with IIS on Windows XP. I make a simple web service (with .Net), with a client program the service work. There is a single method that returns "Hello World" !! if use "Internet explorer" I see the info of the service, but if I press "inovke" I obtain an erro...more >>

I need to know if IIS is included with Window Small Buisness Server?...more >>