I transfered an intranet site from a winnt IIS4 system to a win2003 IIS6 system. Static pages work fine but some ASP pages have errors or settings that need to be resolved. Here are my questions: 1. What are the IIS6 related accounts and folder permissions for the following type of folder situ...more >>

I'm doing some mods on an ASP Classic site for a client against IIS 5.1 (XP Pro SP2) running on my laptop or desktop ("localhost"). Everything runs and looks perfect on these machines. However, when I upload the files to their web server (IIS 6 on 2003 at a shared hosting company), styles ar...more >>

I have an existing SSL certificate installed to a web site on IIS 6.0. I would like to replace that existing SSL certificate with a new one specifiying a new FQDN on the same web site. Is there anyway to generate the new CSR without having to remove the current certificate or can I at least ...more >>

I have a cable modem (Adelphia) connection at home. I have IIS installed and I have a ton of ASP pages and a few virtual directories set up. They have expected behavior using http://localhost/whatever. I have a router, and have forwarded port 80 to my machine. I am unable to access pages/dir...more >>

We have a small domain with approx 50 users. We have a member server (Win 2000) that mainly used for file sharing. We have installed IIS on this server and have been using it to work on designing a new web site. The web site is NOT on-line. Now we are hiring a consultant to design a web ...more >>

HI, I have a question. We currently have a single website that we are hosting in house. IIS6, Server2003, NLB, and DFS. The DFS replicates the root web folder between the 2 servers. The previous administrator set up 3 individual webs for this single site. Web1, Web2, Web3. I have config...more >>

Hi, IIS 6 VB.NET How to generate SiteID like it is generated when I create site with iisweb.vbs or from IIS Manager. It is some hash function of ServerComment, I read about that. But I don't know how to achive that, I searh a lot but didn't find examples. I need only SiteID number....more >>

I am running some off-the-shelf software that is written in ASP, which uses JScript to generate dynamic content within HTML forms. There are several ASP pages which are partially rendering to IE, but stop midway through with an error embeded in the page: "Microsoft JScript runtime error '800a...more >>

Hello, I have recently upgraded a production server with Windows Server 2003, thus my IIS 5.0 has become a IIS 6.0 ; one of the .NET web apps on this server is using lots of HTTP uploads (multipart encoding), with sometimes very big files (around 50-100Mo). This application works fine on II...more >>

I've been hearing some rumors that IIS6 doesn't work well with PHP, because IIS favors ASP. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this rumor? Thanks, Steve...more >>

Does any one know if IIS 5.0, blocks http file download of files with certain extensions such as ".map" (perhaps security reasons) . I am trying to write an application (mfc http inet calls) that needs to download binary files with a .map extention (a proprietary binary) from a IIS 5.0 serve...more >>

Hi, we use a software called Promail off of our Windows 2003 server were user enter orders to be shipped via a web browser. Yesterday we rebooted the server because a user was getting a "404" error and got the error, "IIS Worker Process encountered a problem and needed to close". In the Deta...more >>

Hi Iam using Win XP Pro,IIS 5.1,.net studio The ASP.net controls Do not show up. The .net studio does not opens C#,ASP.net web forms Projects. From http://www.developmentnow.com/g/59_2003_10_0_7_0/inetserver-iis.htm Posted via DevelopmentNow.com Groups http://www.developmentnow.com...more >>

I have a windows 2000 Advanced server with iis 5.0. Every 2-3 days users are unable to connect to the website. While users are unable to connect I can telnet to port 80 which shows iis is listening. Is there anyway I can troubleshoot this behavior? I really appreciate all your help. ...more >>

Hello, I have the following problem: When openening a word document from within Internet Explorer (a link linking to a *.doc) word opens up, load document and than hangs if I try to close the internet Explorer Window. The window disappears, but is still visible on my taskbar. The winwo...more >>

hi, this is probably a very easy question to answer. i'm having problems with visual studio.net 2003 and iis. vs wants to use localhost to create sites in, but i don't have a "default web site", for some reason its grabbing one of my websites as localhost. how can i set which website is use...more >>

I have tried many times. When I install IIS it goes through the install and then it says ''Please Wait' and I have waited over an hour and it doesnt go away( killed the task in taskmanager). So then I try to install the .net framework 1.1 (my ultimate goal is to get VB.Net working so I can crea...more >>

How can I create a "virtual host" in IIS ? (as in Apache webserver) Thanks, GGy ...more >>

Hello, This has been a long time thought of mine I never really tried to do but was very interested in how it could be done? If IIS cannot host multiple SSL URL's on 1 IP without changing the port How in the world does a hosting company get those SSL URL's to work? I thought about a r...more >>

Hi, We are incrementally migrating an ASP application to ASP.NET and have some .NET class libraries that we want to use from both the ASP application and the ASP.NET application. This works fine on our development PCs and also our backup production server. However, whenever we deploy to our l...more >>

I have an interesting problem that I believe has to do with some IIS 6 settings that I am not aware of and I have just about exhausted searching google and this discussion group. Hopefully, someone here can shed some light on the issue I am having. Anyway, in my .NET web application, I am...more >>

Hello, I'm developing a log analysis application that shows you (approximately) what paths though a site are most popular. This currently works well as a script under unix for Apache logfiles, but I've been working on a GUI version that works on Windows (http://pathalizer.sf.net/gui....more >>

I created a new site in IIS...with all the default settings (which is how I usually do it) It throws a 404 error on ASP pages (although the logs show the pages are accessed.) And it displays HTML fine. Another application has been installed in IIS (InterAction) and I'm thinking this has ...more >>

We have a file management system that serves fles. In IIS5.0 we have a virtual directory pointing to the managed files and a get works fine. In IIS 6.0 the same set-up returns an empty file (content-length:0). ...more >>

We've been having intermittent CPU Peaks and hangs on our webservers. We have ASP 3.0 and .Net Interop Components hard to tell but it looks like one search page is hanging but it seems that some threads may be locked before this page hangs. I've looked a tother posts on within this group...more >>

Hi, We have a program that creates a .txt and an .iif file on our 2003 server, then we get a link through Internet Explorer where we can view and download these files. They are both put into the same directory on the server. I can view the .txt file but the .iif file comes up to a Page Ca...more >>

Hi there I have developed an asp.NET web application that runs on an internal network as a companys' Intranet. As people have started to use it, the Event Log on the Web Server is clammering at me telling me that IIS 5.0 does not have licences. If you check the Licensing app in the W2000 Ad...more >>

I have a Windows 2003 server & I would like to publish a training DVD as a link on my intranet. Is that possible? The server does have a DVD in it. Thanks, Mark ...more >>

Hello, I have moved my win2k server to win2003 server with IIS 6 since 10 days, but since yesterday i have a big problem on my server, and he was come alone, i haven't change anything before... Then, my server say this error... (bellow) and he did not respond anymore, the page seems to be l...more >>

Hi, We have an sophisticated application that works great on a Win2K+IIS 5.0 combination. We are the process of adapting the application for Win2k3+IIS 6.0. We are struck by a problem with one of our sub-system on this platform. The app is configured to use Integrated Windows Authentication...more >>

Hi everybody! I manage some IIS servers (5.0 fnd 6.0) and about 10 WWW-sites on each works. How about anonymous users (like IUSR_*) for each site? Which practice is the best? Use one user (iusr_*) for all site at the IIS or create certain user for each WWW-site? Thanks for your attention! ...more >>

Hi need help Sorry for my english I hope you'll understand. I'm working on win2k3 iis 6.0 I've two domains on one static IP both on port 80, default domain1.com have public directory C:\Inetpub\wwwroot and second domain2.com have the public directory under C:\Inetpub\domain2 now I've some prob...more >>

I'd like to know how to program a routine to change the log path of all FTP sites and Web Sites on my local machine?Which API should I use? In addition,Is there a way to get current user-linked-count and the size of log file? Any suggestion are appreciated !Thank you!...more >>

My webpage is password protected, even though I never told it to be. I made sure that anonymous access is enabled, and that by default all IP addresses are allowed access. If I enter the password it loads fine. How can I get rid of the password protection? I am running IIS 6.0 on Server 20...more >>

If I have two websites installed under IIS can I configure IIS to detect a specific URL and direct the user to a specific site? e.g. I have two web sites installed as... c:\inetpub\wwwroot\website1 c:\inetpub\wwwroot\website2 And I have two domains... www.numberone.com www.numbertwo....more >>

If VS (devenv.exe) is used to create a new web app, the virtual dir will point to a physical dir that is a sub-dir of c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ , and the \aspnet_client\ folder will be located at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\aspnet_client\ However, if this default location for the physical dir is not desired...more >>

Can we upgrade IIS 5.x to IIS 6.0 in Windows 2000 Professional machine? I did some research in MS site and found out IIS 6.0 can only run in Windows Server 2003. Is that correct? Please advise. Thanks!! ...more >>

Has anyone seen inetinfo.exe using UDP port 514? I'm trying to set up Kiwi Syslog on my server, and Fprot tells me inetinfo.exe is already using that port - no idea why. Can I buy a clue? Cheers, David ...more >>

Has anyone done tests and or have whitepares describing the preferred scalability model for IIS 6.0? Scaling out vs. Scaling up.... -- ____ - Aragorn...more >>

I've been attempting to track down why we are seeing lots of W3WP Ping failures on our production servers. We are seeing roughly 1 ping failure a day per web server. Our servers are running IIS6 on Win2003. They use a combination of ASP.NET and custom ISAPI filters to process requests. I'd ...more >>

All of a sudden on several of our web servers, the IP block list is being populated with values of frequent visitors. For instance, our customer service web site blocked all of our CS reps, so no one could get in. Has anyone heard of IIS 5.0 autoamtically blocking certain IPs? We are stump...more >>

Hello All, I am getting an IIS error.. that tells the server it is OUT OF MEMORY.. then the server displays a message about the DLLHOST.exe and it waits for an "OK" from me... after hitting OK... it goes back to working fine.... BUT, while the notification is up on the screen... the website...more >>

BACKGROUND I have an web based application that is using ASP, SOAP and COM Objects that reside on a web Server. These COM objects are used to perform LIST/ADD/EDIT/DELETE items from a database on another Server. The SOAP technology is used by creating a SOAP object on the ASP page and initi...more >>

I had two 2000 servers with IIS 5.0 Clustered and running fine. I then did a fresh install of these two servers with 2003 web server with IIS 6.0 Clustered. Here is my question. the web hits decreased by approximately 20% just by making this change. The servers are running great with no proble...more >>

Is this possible or is MS only support MsSQL or Access? I want to move all my ..logs to a database server so I can cut down on storage, run queries for my own log parser and increase security. Any info will help. I've don't have access to the help files since this is a production server and ru...more >>

Hello: I have change my computername but the IUSR_COMPUTERNAME still using the old name. Would you mind to give me some hints that I can rename it too? Thanks!...more >>

Hi, I would like to host the different static websites on a single root url. could any one please help me, what is the maximum number of vitual directories i can add to a single iis installation for a single root url? an early reply is highly helpful please. thanks in advance. -- Regards, P...more >>

I am trying to use the WCAT tool included with the IIS 6.0 resource kit without much success. Has anyone had any luck getting this tool to run? Any help or ideas would certainly be appreciated. Thanks. Gary Gumbiner ...more >>

Hi all, I had a asp.net application that needs to access to a text file on the map drive. The application use an impersonate user account. Originally, this asp.net application runs on a Windows 2000 server and I don't have any problem accessing a file on the other Windows 2000 server. Th...more >>

I'm seeing different behaviors of the EnableExtensionFile method in VBScript running on Windows 2003 servers with different sets of update patches installed. I'm hoping someone recognizes the symptoms and knows which update causes the difference. I'm installing a system management application ...more >>