Hello, I recently installed service pack 4 for Windows 2000 Server on my webserver. I am running a web application that uses a COM+ (VB 6.0 dll) application as the back end communication to my SQL Server. Before the installation of SP 4, everything was running fine, I have not modified any cod...more >>

Is it necessary to change the VD in IIS Manager to Application in order to make asp.net page work? As I can run asp page in normal VD but no need to change it to application. The web server is running on IIS 6.0. Thanks, Alan...more >>

All, We have a web application and are facing a strange problem at one of our customer's intranet site. When people try to access certain web pages (.asp), they are getting "HTTP 500 - Internal server error (Page cannot be displayed)". We tried removing the "Show friendly HTTP error messag...more >>

When trying to install IIS6 on Windows 2003 Server I get the following message when the install starts to copy files: "Setup could not copy one or more files. The specific error code is 0x57..." There are no additional errors in the event log and no failure events in iis6.log. A search ...more >>

We are migrating our web server to a new machine and are planning on using the same OS (Win 2000) and IIS 5.0 So far, I've recreated the users on the new machine (via text file), copied over the content, used subinacl to recreate the NTFS permissions (via text file), and used metabase editor t...more >>

Hi all, I have a fully patched IIS 5.0 box running on win2k standard server. Just recently we have begun encountering a problem where everytime we try to access the Server Certificate button under Directory Security for any website the iis console crashes. Here is the error message we are gett...more >>

Hi - we've just noticed that on a couple of internal servers in the company the IIS services (FTP, SMTP, IIS Admin) all stop running. We have to set them to automatically restart to k eep the services going until the next crash. To try to get round this I have installed and run IISstate, tied to th...more >>

Hello, I have a W2003 Server Enterprise Edition with IIS. When I try to execute the iiscnfg.vbs command the result is: "The sequence of commandos of IIS administration only admits IIS 6.0.", but my IIS version is 6 for the W2003. How can execute this command of vbs? I thanks very much you...more >>

Hi, I have ISA 2004 and IIS 6 installed. I am hosting a couple of very small = web sites (in terms of content) and sometimes outside users get the = error "the page cannot be displayed." If they then try after a couple of = minutes, no problem. Does someone have any clue of what the probl...more >>

Hi. I have IIS running on Windows 2000, and I cannot get it working... Then, I found out that in Component Services, COM+ Applications the IIS Out-of-Process is missing? Do I need it and if so, how do I install it? Best regards, Alfred B ...more >>

I have a Wk2003 webserver running IIS6, with one IP address. My site consists of several subdomains (terminology challenged) that looks like: acme1.mysite.com acme2.mysite.com acme3.mysite.com The A records setup by my DNS provider have it resolving to my www.mysite.com site. Each ...more >>

I'd like to load the server version of iis on XP tablet. I do get the iis console in admin tools and the basic web service is running but I don't get the full iis admin utility or service. How do I do it?...more >>

My IWAM and IUSR have the wrong server-name after a rename of the server after Ghosting so I want to re-create them with the new server-name, because else two computers have the same IWAM and IUSR accounts. How can you accomplish this? Can I uninstall IIS and re-install it? Does this re-create...more >>

I was wondering if the 10 connection limit is due to the OS, or is it inherent in IIS? ...more >>

I am receiving the following error event: Event Type: Error Event Source: IIS Config Event Category: Catalog Event ID: 51228 Date: 2/12/2005 Time: 10:54:04 AM User: N/A Computer: <computername> Description: An error occurred while saving the metabase file. This can happen when the ...more >>

Hi! I'm posted this because i have a big problem.I want to open a File( .doc, ..xls ) and download it to client aplication the the user changes the document and updates the file in Virtual Directory.So, I created a Virtual Directory for my documents and created and Web Page (Aspx). This pag...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem with my IIS 5.0. I have a main webpage and some virtual directories. When I rediredt the main page to another URL all virtual directories are redirected too. When I now try to change the properties of the virtual directories so that the home directory links to the l...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem with my IIS 5.0. I have a main webpage and some virtual directories. When I rediredt the main page to another URL all virtual directories are redirected too. When I now try to change the properties of the virtual directories so that the home directory links to the l...more >>

Hi, Win XP sp2, IIS 5.1, Mcafe internet security suite 7.0. IIS is running OK, I can ping 127.0.0.1 & localhost, I've turned off /on Macfee privacy service/firewall but I still can't load a page from local host - I get a server cannot be found/dns error. I cannot load .asp or ..html. It ...more >>

Hello, After last critical updates my smtp-server return this message: "Message delivery to the host 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' failed while delivering to the remote domain 'domain.domain' for the following reason: The remote server did not respond to a connection attempt." for every email. Maybe this ...more >>

Hi, We have a new Win2k3 server with IIS 6.0 installed fresh. In doing our tests we have found that we are unable to "serve" any non-standard web files (like .ZIP and .EXE) even though their MIME types are defined. When we type in the URL, the file download window pops up, then it pauses,...more >>

Hopefully this is the right ng for this issue since it appears to be related to the server in some fashion. I have a client script (.js file) that only streams the first 32k of the file when I load the page, then repeats itself with the same 32k of text. I noticed this when I was trying to de...more >>

I have an XP Prof computer acting as a small web server. Restrictions on this seem to only allow 10 concurrent users to access the site. Broken connections, which don't release their session, causes us to have to reboot the machine each time. Does anyone know which operating system will wor...more >>

After moving our websites to Windows 2003 Web Edition, now the web developers are having problems getting to the websites though a visual interdev (version 6) project. It keeps asking for a use name & password, but I've tried their accounts, computer admin account, domain admin accounts, an acco...more >>

I have a huge problem and no solution at sight.... :) ... I am using IIS 5.0 and ASP.NET. I need to define in host header of iis wildchars like * for some domains, the problem is that it doesn't work!!!! All undefined domains are redirected to "default webisite" that is defined in iis, but there ...more >>

Hello, Each time a re-boot my IIS6 webserver it restarts with a network address restriction in place. What might be causing this. If I manually change the address restriction settings the server runs fine. This is happening at the golbal level Has anyone seen this behavior before ? Tha...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had ever come across an issue with HTTP 1.1 keep-alives not functioning properly in IIS, although it is configured to use them, and the client requests them. We have several web applications in our environment exhibiting similar behavior. Client sends an ...more >>

I know Windows 2003 supports load balancing, but I already have two Windows 2000 web servers and now I want to run the same websites on both and put a hardware load balancer in front. Can anyone suggest a good make/model? Also, with the hardware load balancer, do you know if I *must* change the...more >>

I have a Windows 2003 Server on which I'm trying to run Sharepoint Services and the regular Front Page Server Extensions. I got Sharepoint Services to work after uninstalling the FPSE and installing Sharepoint on the default port (80). Now I'm trying to reinstall the FPSE so that I can publish...more >>

Need help from experienced IIS admins. When hosting multiple web sites on the same server using IIS 5.0 on Win2000 Server, you create DNS records and add the appropriate host headers to the web site so that web browsers (the client) correctly receive the right web site from the same server....more >>

Does anyone know of an ASP.NET solution for handling WebDav requests? I want to be able to trap WebDav requests in an ASP.NET module (so that I can do some custom authentication), then call into an HttpHandler so that the request can be processed. It seems to be that once the request is di...more >>

What I'd like to see is a program which shows in realtime which files are being handled by the server. The server in question handles a number of large(r) files at the same time but I have no way of seeing which files at which moment. Is there such a thing? Many thanks! Dries...more >>

Hi all, I have a IIS 5.0 fully patched server. Our SSL web certificate expired today and so when I have to renew it. When I go the properties for that website and then go to directory security tab and then click on server certficate mmc hangs. What gives? I need to renew the cert by tomorrow a...more >>

Hi, I'm new to the whole IIS thing and after a couple of days of muddling through way too many online tutorials I'm still stuck. I am trying to set up a web server but am behind a router I have fwd ports 80 and 8080 to my IP and have installed No-IP cliant on my machine to up date mt Mode...more >>

Hi all, I've just discovered a fatal flaw in my design for some websites I am working on. I have multiple websites all of which share a virtual directory called common. The problem I have is that the login information for these sites is stored in session variables which I check on eve...more >>

I'm trying to make my intranet site available through the internet using ntfs permissions. I want my local users to be able to have access to the intranet without having to log in and from the internet would require ntfs login. I've removed anonymous access and change the folder permissions to ...more >>

I've read through page on IIS 5.0 redirection: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313074 but wonder if there is a way to automate this process (instead of selecting options within the Internet Services Manager GUI). More specifically, I would like to schedule a task in Windows Task Scheduler...more >>

Hi, I have a PHP website where I can upload files fine if they are under 4mb but any file over that and I get this error: CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. I know it is not a PHP error as I have set the max upload filesize to...more >>

I am using NT4.0 and IIS. My webserver is getting bombarded by many GET request for the home page (index.htm) by some virus / hacking software. When I block the IP Address, the same host tries to get in using a different GET request as below 2005-02-08 04:53:37 69.154.16.224 GET /config/l...more >>

I downloaded and installed IIS Lockdown 2.1 and URL scanner, but later removed the URL Scanner component. How can reinstall URL Scanner again? Or can I uninstall IIS Lockdown 2.1 completely and reinstall everything? How can I uninstall that? Thanks a lot....more >>

I have a web site that uses host headers that works fine in IIS5 but doesn't work in IIS6. The web app uses .net and runs a query on the ADS (2000 ADS domain). IIS6 is installed on win 2003 member servers in an application cluster. I receive no errors (Just a list of ADS lookups returns no e...more >>

Hi, I have 2 servers Windows 2003 Std running IIS 6 with NLB. My web sites need authentification with NTLM and there is a webservice that need to be anonymous. This same configuration is working properly on one server. The reason for my webservice to be anonymous is that's it's called by a V...more >>

Last night we moved our intranet website from IIS 5 to IIS 6 and switched it to intregrated authentication. Today we are seeing users randomly getting access denied messages when using the site. On the access denied it is saying that anonymous was the suplied credentials and they are denied. W...more >>

I am working on an intranet server. I have installed IIS on my machine and can get to the url http://hostname from anywhere.. the same goes for another machine I have tested. However, on my intranet server I deleted the default website in IIS and made a new one. I can't access the site VIA ...more >>

Hi All I am trying to configure IIS5 with tomcat5.0.28. My tomcat works fine. I have tested IIS http://localhost/ <http://localhost/> it shows the IIS page fine. However if I try to access jsp-examples http://localhost:8080/jsp-examples/jsp2/el/basic-arithmetic.jsp <http://localhost:8080/j...more >>

After adding a team website to the default website root, all virtual direcories under the root are now coming up with 404 errors. This includes /exchange /rpc /oma So that no-one can access their email etc I have checked the default content page and the extensions I'm using are still list...more >>

does having .NET installed on your box slow performance of serving large static files ? possibly because of some sort of buffering ? ...more >>

Is there a tool or method where I can see which site I am hosting is using more than it's share of bandwidth? I am running a vanilla IIS6 server with nothing funky over it. -sed ...more >>

Hi all... I can only set Logfiles directory where the logfiles are installed. Actual logs are stored, for example, in a folder named W3SVC1247439254 under LogFiles folder. Is there a way to change that strange folder name to be something more meaningful (for example, the name of the site)? ...more >>

Hi all.... Platform: - Windows Server 2003 - IIS 6.0 hosting some sites Problem: Here in my country is 11:12 PM, but this was the header of the web site log entry when I connected to the page at this time: #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 #Version: 1.0 #Date...more >>

We have a domain name that mapped to our in-house server's public IP so we can host our own site. We would like to start an additional site. Can we still use the same public IP, but different domain name? Is there any online documents on how to do this? We also have firewall considerations. H...more >>

How does IIS 6.0 handle serving ~90meg files on a heavily surfed website ? say, compared to Zeus on FreeBSD 4.10 ...more >>

We're trying to serve a 2.5Gb file from IIS on Windows XP as a "local cache" of a file on a win2k3 server's IIS. The win2k3 server works fine, XP gives a server error. Is there an IIS limit on served file size in XP? Any way to remove it other than installing apache? ...more >>

I am trying to create several virtual directories all to the same basic website. They get created without a problem, however when I restart IIS, all of my hard work (okay easy work) is GONE. The virtual directories have disappeared. Any suggestions on what happened? Brian Welch Pipkins...more >>

Hi, We have the Win2000 Server with IIS 5.0 installed. Starting from some time users notify us that the access to web applications was slowed down. Sometimes the page is loaded for 2 seconds and another time for 2 minutes. The issue is that the slowness is only when application is accessed fr...more >>

What gives? Why does the AspErrorsToNTLog metabase property no longer work in IIS6? How am I supposed to debug applications without adding my own logging layer, with all the added points of failure (including permissions) that entails? I can't even use the WScript.Shell LogEvent method a...more >>

Earlier I posted a older IISState log, i just got a fresh one when the cpu spiked for 1 min or so. I'm pretty sure thread 93 has something to do with the spike...but I can't really make heads or tails out of anything else in the log....more >>

Howdy, Can somebody help me interpret these IISState Logs. Requests Queued on my server occasionally starts to rise and when it does nobody can use the website. I posted a similar thread and it was identifed that ACBtr732.ocx was the problem but I don't show that file anyhere in any of the...more >>

Hi I have been trying to create a virtual directory on one of our web sites and have it use basic authentication to allow a user access to it. Heres a break down on what we have set up: - Windows 2000 Server (in a domain) - The site is on the the domain contoller - the root site, lets cal...more >>

hey- i've been running an http server on XP w/ IIS 5.1 for a while now. i haven't used logging before tho. i just recently enabled it, but i haven't seen a file yet in windows\system32\logfiles. it's set to log hourly. all users have all permissions for \logfiles. and it is no longer a Rea...more >>

Hi, i know this is a frequent post but I'm really stuck trying to diagnose this problem so pse help if you can. My setup is probably as simple as you can get - windows2000 server SP2 (can't put it higher due to a piece of software running on the server). The software running on the server doe...more >>

Hello, I'm having a problem with CPU spikes when a web application I'm hosting. The setup I currently have is, 3 frontend boxes running Server 2003 EE, and IIS 6.0, with two backend boxes running MS SQL. It is a ASP.Net Application that we wrote in house. Basically through out the day w...more >>

I have a few sites that all use utf-8 encoding .. all of a sudden they are showing ?'s marks for a things like apostrophes, mdashes, ... the encoding is set both on the serverside and clientside to utf-8 ... what else could I look for to troublshoot? ...more >>

I have installed IIS 5.1 on my WinXP Pro desktop and WinXP Pro laptop. The IIS on my desktop runs fine but not my laptop. Whenever I want to start IIS, it give me an error message: "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred!" I have tried uninstalling and re-installing IIS - still the same pro...more >>

I have a SQL 2000 Standard server setup and I have a table in one of my databases to store files in. I am using asp code to retrieve the files from the database. I can download txt, bmp files just fine but when it comes to pdf documents it just hangs at the downloading the file screen and th...more >>

I am moving a site that's been on a W2K server to a W2003 server. Dang thing won't run. I've only set up one other ASP app on IIS before, on a W2K Server machine. I guess I forgot something, but I am not sure what. I have IIS running. The defaults web site says it's running. I haven't changed ...more >>

Windows Server 2003, IIS 6 I'm teaching myself some basic ASP (i'm very good at VBScript, but I'm very new to using it in a web environment). As a test, I have a very basic page that connects to a Group object in AD, and returns its name. When the page is set to anonymous using the loca...more >>

I have installed IIS 6 and deployed my dll's to the bin directory. However, when the aspl.net page is compiled it complains: "The type or namespace name 'MyNameSpace' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)" Although it used to work fine and the DLL d...more >>

We analyze our logfiles for advertiser performance and have noticed some weirdness: sometimes we are receiving two requests for several ads on a page, very close together in time (of the order of 200 milliseconds). The first request showed no Referrer (relatively unusual, although MAC MSIE brow...more >>

I have an asp application that hits 100% CPU, when the website gets to 110 request a sec. Can adding more w3wp to the application pool help manage the resources better? Thanks for any help. I know that this is more likely an application design issue, just looking for any IIS settings that coul...more >>

I have a web server that is hosting multiple web sites. It is a Windows Server 2000 box with IIS 5. All the current sites are working properly and all have frontpage server extensions working properly. I used the IIS managment console to add a new site and that worked fine. I created a d...more >>

We have a Windows 2000 server running IIS 5. Does anyone know if/how we can upgrade to IIS 6 without moving to Windows 2003? Thanks in adavance. -- Maz...more >>

Hi! I have an asp site on my local machine (http://localhost/...) residing in a virtual directory. Sometimes the pages aren't loaded correctly. I can hit F5 and some of the images/fonts correct themselves but on the next F5 they might disappear again, showin either broken link to image or b...more >>

On Xp Pro I have iinstalled IIS and set the home cataloge of the default website to point at a folder on my disk. However at http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 IE6 still shoew a blank screen. What do I miss? ...more >>

Hello, I am getting the following error on a couple of our sites, I have reinstalled the FP extensions, ran server health, reset permissions, and I still get the same error. I run Windows 2003 Enterprise, IIS 6 The error is An error occured accessing your Windows SharePoint Services si...more >>

I am tring to install IIS on a XP SP2 machine. This is the first try at it and after the it tries to install for a coupe of seconds it starts looking for files to copy from the i386 folder. This folder does exist on my machine and the files are there. I've tried to force it to take the file...more >>

My IIS won't serve up a one-word HTML file (index.html) as configured out of the box. Do I have to manually add .html and .htm to the MIME Types in order for IIS to serve up these static pages? If not then why do I always get the 'operation timed out when trying to contact mysite.com' message...more >>

When I try to run set-up of the IIS 6 manager I get the following pop-up: Error reading set-up initialization file. I am running IIS 5.1 on XP and want to remotely connect ot my IIS 6 on W2K3 Server. I called MS Product support who directed me here! Has anyone else tried to download an...more >>

Hi, I just got IIS 6 installed on Windows Server 2003. When I connect to my site from the same machine it works. When I try to access from my home pc or any remote browser it does not. Not even for a single HTML file. Try http://217.77.186.200/index.html and see it does not work. Does...more >>

I’ve setup a website on IIS on a W2000 SP4 server - using a virtual directory under the default website – in order to host an application – I believe it uses scripts. When I logon to the server remotely or locally (with full admin permissions) and try via IE6 to connect to \\severna...more >>

I have Win XP Pro, IIS 5, 512 MB Ram and plenty of open HDD space left. I create a ASP.Net page or web service locally, written using Visual Studio.Net 2003. I'll open the page either within VS.Net or open a separate IE 6. The firrst time I open it, it works fine and fast. I make a change,...more >>

Hello, My problem is : I've set up a 2003 server which acts as an webserver, 1 user of my domain want to be able to upload documents to the webfolder, to change the website. Only this user has change on the directory, but what I don't like is that every user can login to this ftp server...more >>

Hi Over the last couple of weeks, our IIS has started to crash regularly. I've got no idea what the problem might be, and I'm at a loss as to how to procede. What is happening is that, for some reason, IIS seems to be dying - requests to the server get the 'site not found' error. I can rest...more >>

I have 3 server that run IIS. Is it possible to acces them via the internet if they don't have a public IP adress? Only one have a public IP adress One server host the Coporate Web Site (Public IP) One server host SharePoint Portale Server (Private IP) One server host SUS Admin (Private...more >>

Hi! I have two server, one PDC and the other, a member server My PDC host a web site named http://www.mysite.com I have created a virtual directory that point to a shared folder on the member server and it's not working. http://www.mysite.com/Project I'm always getting the 401.3 error...more >>

Hi everyone! I will try to define my problem the best I can 1 Domain Windows 2003 (JOHN-PDC) 1 Member Server SQL Windows 2003 (JOHN-SQL) IIS is enable on each. My PDC is my web Hosting server. http://www.whatever.com My SQL is a SQL server and a SUS Server. I have make a virtual ...more >>

http://doom.deadghost.com/maps/ The txt link works, but the pk4 links do not. 404 error. Please advise. ...more >>

The login session using NTLM seems like will be timeout as quick as 3min. I built a sample ASP.NET Web app using Windows authentication. I can login no problem. However if I simply let the browser window idle for 3min I realize the NTLM challenge/response will kick in again. Can anyone e...more >>

Can anyone please share with me any ideals on why I can get my ..pl and .bat to work by typing in manually into my cmd prompt, perl file.pl and file.bat. Both of my files launch an executable application with it's switches and all has absolute paths. From the cmd prompt my console opens and eit...more >>

Hello everyone, I am working on a webpage with a search function on it and cannot get it to come up. I have the server extentions loaded on the server that it is being published to. However, I still cannot figure out how to get the .dwt page to come accross the site. Can someone please help ...more >>

I have discovered using the Treeview control that you can only bind to it using anonymous logins. I need to authenticate my IE5.0+ clients using Windows authenticated logins but allow a form to "drop back" to anonymous logins for the treeview. Aside from a separate virtual directory, can ...more >>

I am trying to find a new laptop, most have XP Home and I need IIS to develop (well, yeah ... duh) and I've looked everywhere. It seems I can find some reasonable laptops with the Media version of XP, but I cannot find out if IIS runs on any of them. Help? It seems that most laptops have XP...more >>

Hello - I'm sure this has been beaten to death, but please if you would... We have an internal Exchange server - www.testweb.com/exchange or mail.testweb.com hosted on an SBS server. We want to add another web page on another server, SERVER2. Art.testweb.com - which is hosted on an internal ...more >>

Hi all, We're having a strange issue with Win2003/IIS6. The specific application we're using is Livelink... when we test download speeds using the livelink.exe CGI we see slow download speeds vs a download directly through IIS. We're talking 60-70% slower. We do not see the same behaviour on ...more >>

I am replacing my current Windows 2000 Server, which is my web server, with my new Windows 2003 Server Web Edition. Is there an easy way to move my web site and FTP sites, from the old to the new? Thank you....more >>

We have a Windows 2k server running on a PIII 450 256MB ram that works as our internet web server and it runs great. I was looking to upgrade it with a PIII 733 with 512MB ram (any other hardware is out of the question) running Windows 2003 webserver. This hardware is acting as our intranet at...more >>

Hi I want to send mail with CDONTS and our external smtp server. This is my code: <% Set MyCDONTSMail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail") MyCDONTSMail.From = "mymail@domain.com" MyCDONTSMail.To= "yourmail@domain.com" MyCDONTSMail.Subject = "test" MyCDONTSMail.Body = "info..." MyCDONTSMai...more >>

We currently have a domain named "mydomain.com". I have set up a website to be used internally and left it unassigned and put it on port 8080. I want users to access this website by entering the URL "mydomainintranet.com" I entered this in the advanced section of IIS properties for the site...more >>

We currently have a domain named "mydomain.com". I have set up a website to be used internally and left it unassigned and put it on port 8080. I want users to access this website by entering the URL "mydomainintranet.com" I entered this in the advanced section of IIS properties for the site...more >>

Just installed IIS on a W2000 SP4 server I have created a virtual directory called ABC under the default website - when I try and connect locally or remotely to http://myserver/abc I get 'you are not authorised to view this page - http error 403 forbidden I have full admin permissions ...more >>

Hi I am a developer and know only concepts we just got computer from hosting company and installed our site. This site sometimes needs to send emails and we (site support) need to read replies platform is w2003/iis6 and as I understand default SMTP server is the ticket now there bunch...more >>