Hello, I have a problem with my IIS 5.0 server. Suddenly it won't carry my session variables from page to page. My clients will log on with a session variable identifying them as a valid customer that is allowed to shop on our site, but as soon as they navigate to another page it logs t...more >>

Hi, Maybe someone here has some insights for me. I am moving an old asp application onto a new Win2k3 server with iis 6 from iis 5 on win2k. Some of the pages perform quite a bit of data processing and so they might take upto 3-5 minutes to complete on the old system. Since the new serve...more >>

Hi all, I have an executable file (my.exe) in a folder on my web site. When people link to this file, they should be presented with a "Save or Run" dialogue, but instead they get "the page could not be displayed." What can I do to enable download of this file? --Eric...more >>

Building a w2k3 server to host our intranets. Currently use w2k with content stored locally and index server indexing all sites. We'll be accessing new content from a SAN and need to know if it is possible to search the SAN via index server? I heard a rumour that it can because the SAN is ...more >>

Howdy, Wondering how to autodelete IIS logs that are old, like 2 weeks old or something.... Thanks, -- David Lozzi Web Applications Developer dlozzi@(remove-this)delphi-ts.com ...more >>

Ok.. This one is driving me crazy! I am trying to solve a problem for our developers. I'm no programmer but I made a basic page to update the description field of a test user in AD. I want to have my credentials to pass through this page to make the AD changes ( I am a domain admin). This...more >>

The Windows Server 2003 includes an IIS provider. Is there an equivalent provider for IIS 5 (Windows 2000)? Is there an alternative means of collecting data (i.e.; web site or virtual directory properties, etc.) for IIS 5? ...more >>

For site traffic reporting purposes I'm strongly considering http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ for providing Web site traffic reports. One of my concerns is that it requires Perl to be installed on the server. I have a very clean IIS 6.0/2003 Server and I'm wondering if Perl can be considere...more >>

Config: Dell PowerEdge 1750 Dual Xeon 2.4 GHz 1GB RAM RAID 5 Windows 2003 Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition 7.6 I've been getting generic Application Errors relating to IIS (generally in w3wp.exe) for a while now, so I decided to capture one with IISState and see if I can track down ...more >>

Hi, I Have a problem when I run asp and .NET pages at the same time. The error is generated by asp pages Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 8007000e' Server.CreateObject Failed index.asp, line 41 8007000e we are running asp and .net at the same time, .NET run fine but when I run asp i g...more >>

Hi there, I'm using Windows XP Pro. SP2, IIS 5.1, MS Outlook 2000, SQL Server 2000 Dev. SP4 I dont have Exchange server. I configure SQL to use system account with my email I configure smtp in IIS with my internal IP Now when I use SQL alert to send mail its does and the email go to ...more >>

Hi, I would like to transfer my ASP development from the office to home. platform Visual Interdev 6.0 SQL Server 2k IIS 5.1 are installed on my XP Pro workstation. How do I transfer my web project to my local server? I can not get the "Add to master web" option in Visual Interdev is ...more >>

Hi Im planning to change the servers to upgrade the performance, actually im working with a dedicated server for web services. The actual configuration is the folllowing: Pentium 4 1 GB RAM 200 GB HDDisk (Mirror) A usuall statistic of every month is of: 9.300.000 hits 1.600.000 page views...more >>

Hi All Can anyone please tell me what this error means? Our website is experiencing difficulties serving up ASP pages (IIS5 and IE5). The pages are definitley there, and if you refresh they will often display. We've restarted the service several times but over the period of a few hours the web...more >>

I am trying to setup IIS which is shown as running on my XP Pro computer and it is driving me to distraction. If I type http://localhost in my browser I get the error "execute access forbidden". If I type the name of the server http://mycomputer I get the error message "DNS Host not found". I...more >>

Hi All, I got the following Error when I try to run my ASP.NET app ,hosted by IIS 5.1 in windows xp. Event Type: Error Event Source: ASP.NET 1.1.4322.0 Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 6/20/2005 Time: 5:21:02 PM User: N/A Computer: MYBENQ Description: aspnet_wp.exe (PID:...more >>

Hello everyone, I am currenltly running a win2k sp4 box with iis installed. i am trying to get something to work here that is a little out of standard practice. I am trying to install Jakarta Tomcat in order to host some jsp servlets on the same machine that is running IIS. I want this to ...more >>

I have a few development machines in a workgroup (I'm a .net aspx developer) and I often browse websites on the machines from othe machines. they are all win xp except my new one is xp Media Center. I can't browse web sites on this new machine. I have iis 5.1 installed and annonymous access...more >>

Hello, I try to use this following command : cscript.exe C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/CentralBinaryLoggingEnabled true under windows XP SP2 and IIS 6 for enabling Binary Logging. But i receive always the same error message. ErrNumber: -2147463164 (0x80005004) Error...more >>

I change an ADSL modem to a router Dlink-502G. After this change, my IIS 5 in a Windows 2000 Server(named: hrserver) is running, but in another computer, when I try the address: http://hrserver/hrsoft (that already exist in Standard Web Site in IIS), the HRserver can´t show the pages. Before...more >>

I have seen various Web hosting services provide reports that summarize traffic on their hosted Web sites (number of page requests - graphs, summary stats, etc). I need to provide similar reports internally for an internal company Web site (available only on our Intranet). Where do I get st...more >>

hi i am a complete to windows server 2003/iis i have went thru the help section on iis and i dont understand it to be honest. i do not have a domain name i am currently using 1 ip of the 6 given to me from the place i rent my server. so what i want to accomplish is to be able to link im...more >>

How can I see how many users are currently using my website?...more >>

I have a mixture of IIS 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 giving inconsistant results when serving up a .csv page. Some of the servers are serving the page up and IE will open Excel and the page lookes like a normal spreadsheet. Other servers are loading the page as an HTML page, eventhough it has a .csv exte...more >>

Can I do this using the new website from file function in IIS6 on windows server 2003? I havent tried yet as I dont want to break my freshly built server straight away! :) Thanks ...more >>

We have twice had our SQL Server unsuccessfully boot up on a reboot. After the SQL Server is back online, ASP.NET apps still are unable to access the SQL Server. Is this typical? Why is this the case and what can be done, short of a web server reboot to re-establish communications betwee...more >>

Hi, I've windows 2003 with IIS 6.0 (with 100 domains). Now i'm getting an error (50/100 times a day). I can't find a way to resolve it...hope you can help me. Source: FrontPage 5.0 Category: None Category String: Event: 1000 User: N/A Message: Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions: Err...more >>

Hello, I have a W2K server running the most currenty SP, with IIS installed (I have this same configuration on 6 servers on a Citrix Farm). On one server, the "inetinfo.exe" is running at 60-100% and causing terrible performance on that system. When I shut off the SMTP services, everything ...more >>

Hi, I would like to enable IIS 6 on our Win 2003 server to develop ASP .NET applications. Prior to this update, I would like to estimate the hardware capacities used by ASP .NET and IIS 6. So, I'd like to have figures on : - How much memory and processor uses IIS 6 + ASP.NET without any a...more >>

Hello, After the promotion to windows 2003 dc the users IUSR and IWAM_machinename where removed, because a dc does not use locally based users, ofcourse. But now the IUSR and IWAM users have been removed. I addes these accounts manually but IIS is not happy with this. Is there a workaround t...more >>

I created a form with a group of radio buttons. Intent is for user to select a button and click submit activating a page with a form processing script . In the form processing script, after declaring the variables that will hold the values for the chosen radio buttons, what is the code to c...more >>

I have an image folder which need to be place outside the root of my web folder. but still I need to pull the images using relative path to display on my website ... how should I do this ?? How can I set the virtual path for the image files in the folder outside my root web folder ? I ...more >>

I have a simple web site (just a few pages) running on my computer (IIS in WinXP Pro), on which is a table where a cell uses a .JPG file as a background. Locally, the .JPG file displays exactly as intended. But over the Internet, the .JPGs will not display. If I change them to ..GIFs, they ...more >>

Hi, I'm new to IIS on SBS 2003 and would like to do the following: I have a domain for example called www.abcdef.com, I have changed the DNS on our ISP to point to an external IP address on our SBS 2003 box. I can browse to the box using the www.abcdef.com address, however, I would like...more >>

Hello Folks, I am running a windws 2000 with a iis 5.0 webserver. When i tried to run adplus in the hang mode, i do not get any .log or .dmp output . Ijust get somee .cfg files and txt files as the output. Please let me know if i am looking at the worng place or if i am doing anything wron...more >>

We are having an issue with the application pool being disabled due to rapid-fail protection. My best guess is that a routine admin script which is supposed to walk the metabase and copy the previous day's logs to an appropriately named folder on an archive box for stats, is locking the metabas...more >>

I have installed IIS 6 and MS Cert Server on a Windows 2003 server. When I access the site via SSL from the server my certificate seems fine. My internal and external domain name is xyzcompany.com. I don't get any error messages when I am on my IIS server and try to access http://www.xyzc...more >>

I have just resetup my website moving it to a virtual directory. It worked fine under default website. Now I get "You are not authorized to view this page" when trying to go to my website. I can browse the page under the IIS Manager so I have something wrong in permission but can't find the pr...more >>

im currently installing a new server and my old server is running iis6 i have approx 100 domains configured on it. What i need to do is to backup them domains in iis and restore them on to the new servers iis 6 is there any easy way is there any third party software that you can buy or is ...more >>

I am not sure if this is the right group to post this. But can not find a better one. I have a VB6 client program sent HTTP request to my web server. The server is configured to require SSL and using Integrated Authentication (no anonymous). The program works fine for over 6-month now. Co...more >>

I have installed iss propperly (i hope).. selected the "enable default content page" checkbox in the documents tab of my websites properties & made sure "index.htm" remained there as one of the defaults. thing is i have a "index.htm" in the root of my site but i cannot use a browser to see...more >>

After last night automatic critical updates my iis server keeps shutting down, I get a Service Control manger error: The World Wide Web Publishing Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 25 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart...more >>

Where can I get IIS 4.0? Can I download it somewhere? I need it because I am going to uninstall IIS 4.0 and then reinstall it. I am running Windows NT 4.0 Server. Thanks for the help. Derek...more >>

Do you know a way that NLB recognizes the failre of the other web server's IIS and takes all the requests coming to the other server on itself? ...more >>

I have a customer who is having problems with his ASP pages serving a updated page when he makes updates to it. No other customers on the webserver have problems. To give a short example of the issue here is what happens: The page gets updated and when he clicks to view the updates he still...more >>

Hi there, Could anyone tell me something about IIS licensing information? Thanks Alan ...more >>

What can be changed in the Metabase using Direct Metabase Edit that will be picked up immediately on saving the file? So far the only thing I have found that will actually work is changing the location of a redirect for a resource. Is there a list somewhere of what changes are actually support...more >>

I uninstalled IIS from a Windows 2000 Server, as there was no need for IIS to be on it. Uninstall caused explorer.exe to stop, so desktop icons & taskbar disappeared. There were no other programs running during the uninstall, and I was able to go into Task Manager, New Task and start exp...more >>

Prior to SP2 for XP our application was able to launch remote query to an access database through IIS in a non domain environment. Now all we get is 'Access Denied'. We've allowed all access permissions and have 'Execute includes Scripts' for application permissions. As far as security we have...more >>

Just installed IIS on a WinXP Pro machine, and I can not get any ASP pages to show, and that includes the ASP help files. HTML shows up fine but nothing else. .NET is installed both 1.1 and 2.0. SP2 is installed as well as all latest Updates. I ma familiar with Coldfusion server, so I have a ...more >>

Hi All, This is about for a shared web hosting. Could any one please tell me how many maximum websites can be hosted on a single server on a single IIS6.0 Installation? please let me know the server configuration and the maximum websites that can run on a single server. Many Thanks in Advance...more >>

actually what I am doing is here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247389/EN-US/ it works in IIS5. after I ran the script in my IIS6, I can see the added MIME type in IIS manager. however, when I browse for this MIME type in IE, I got "The parameter is incorrect" It may be a known bug in h...more >>

Hi, A couple of days ago i got a call from a user working from home that they couldn't get onto our intranet site. The machine runs 2 web sites in IIS - default web site where all the intranet stuff i built and things like our timesheet system all live in there as Virtual Directories, and t...more >>

hello I m facing a problem in IIS on windows 2003 when i run local host browser display message " SERVICE UNAVAILABLE" eventhough run IIS service. help me soon i m in trouble . From http://www.developmentnow.com/g/59_0_0_0_0_0/inetserver-iis.htm Posted via DevelopmentNow.com Groups htt...more >>

I am using Windows NT Server 4.0 with sp6a. It is running IIS4.0. There are some files with Chinese filename. (big-5) However, when a user request to view a files with Chinese name, error 404 appears. Directory Browsing is enabled. The file with Chinese name would be shown as ??.html, instead o...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how i can add an options on my html page to return the currently browsing persons IP address ? Thanks Scott ...more >>

Hello, I installed the IIS on a win XP PRO SP2 box but the default website is not visible to other machines on the LAN. I checked and the annonymous user is allowed and the IIS user has read access to the wwwroot folder. Any ideas...more >>

I own Windows XP Pro pre SP2 and also have a SP2 disk I had a new computer built and gave my vendor my serial number of Xp aand he installled XP Pro SP2 on the computer. I now want to install IIS and Frontpage Extensions and when I put in my SP disk it wants an XP SP2 disk and won't installl ...more >>

I spend an hour searching on Internet how to delegate administration tasks in IIS6 and have not found any viable solution. I did hacks with metabacl.exe to modify AdminACL but it did not do the trick, users still can not administer respective websites via MMC. I end up putting users in local ...more >>

This seems like this should be easy but it is not working for me at all. I have configured on my Windows/2000 Professional the SMTP services. The intent is that outbound messages should go to my ISP for processing. So I added under the "Delivery" tab - under "Advanced" my Smart Host's I...more >>

Hi, I am running the microsoft IIS on Windows 2000 Server. The site is very slow. I found out major slowness on IIS when I was trying to download some zip files that I have on out web site. They were in size about 10mb or 15mb. Connection to IIS site is by T1 and download side is connected ...more >>

I am devaloping a web site usign Perl CGI on IIS / W2K. The system works fine when Clients are using IE on Windows, but Mac users get an error message that say it does not recognize ".PL" Also when Client's Browser is Firefox they receive a ftp prompt and the program file is being send to the...more >>

I am running some applications in IIS 6, and it is required that I use the client's credentials, thus negating the use of Anonymous Authentication. In my development environment, I am running IIS 5 and I can run the applications using Windows Integrated Authentication, but when I push the appli...more >>

Since this morning we have been getting this error in the IIS log under "cs-uri-query" for any ASP pages on one of our web sites on an IIS 5 box: |-|ASP_0145|New_Application_Failed 500 Any ideas what it means? I tried changing the application protection to "Low" but that didn't fix it, nor...more >>

We are running Windows 2000 Server and one of our applications on the system generates email messages to be sent out to users. These emails are getting stuck in the queue and are not being sent out. The strange thing about it is that when we reboot the server whatever is in the queue is success...more >>

Hi all, how can I set IIS 6 to show a certain page (like "the web site is down for maintenance") for every request to the web site? I'd like that, for a short time, every request (including .aspx and .htm) to my IIS virtual site could be redirected to a fixed htm page. Thank you so much...more >>

Odd problem with ampersand in file name... When a file is being retrived from the W2k Adv Server it cannot find it (404 error). When I put the same file on a W2k "Regular" server it finds it just fine. We have checked all the settings in the webserver and they are both SP 4 same version. ...more >>

I want to find the log folder of each of my IIS log locations (eg for each website, each smtp server, etc) using c#. Any hints? ...more >>

hi, i have a pbm. i have hosted my site on a dedicated server. the domain name i registered is say 'abc.com'. The site i have uploaded is running very well. Now the pbm is i can access http://abc.com while i can't aceess http://www.abc.com. can anyone help in configuring these thanks in advanc...more >>

I am running Windows 2003 Server and just recently applied SP1. Now, I can no longer "Administer" the FP extension. I can add/remove without a problem, but when I click the site name to administer it, I get the authentication dialog and then authentication fails. It was set up using the Adm...more >>

Hello, I am having a strange issue between my Test environment and my Production environment. The problem is my site runs beautifully on Test and almost beautifully on Production. They are both the exact same machines, with the same memory, and same exact code and yet Production has some se...more >>

I don't have much experience with Windows Server and IIS so I may have missed something real obvious. However, several days of searching the internet for a solution have been fruitless. (This is my 1st post on WebserverTalk.) A week ago we upgraded our web server from Windows Server 2000/II...more >>

I want for example http://a.domain.com http://b.domain.com http://c.domain.com I have IIS I want to redirect each of those adresses to a differente application on the IIS Server. What can I do. As far as I know, we have 1 router, two firewalls and internally there is the IIS server th...more >>

I am looking to find a way to managing all user accounts for expample create delete chance password and account informotion All throught Microsoft IE, Is this possiable to do this or not as i was looking at a company that creates server/cleint software for schools in the uk and they hav...more >>

Hi, I am trying to understand how it works. Imagine that I have a web server (win2003) with enabled only integrated authentication. 1. Which process (component of iis) performs authentication? 2. user is only checked if had provided good name and password or it matters later for e.g in w3wp...more >>

HI, I am looking for a way to set "HTTPExpires" property on web folders using C#. Actually for all the virtual directories and their subfolders which are "included" in IIS metabase file, I am able to get their DirectoryEntry using DirectoryEntry.Children calls recursively (System.DirectoryServ...more >>

Hi, Setup: dotNet Framework 1.1 and 2.0 b2; Win2000 Server sp4 On my development machine, I see the ASP.NET tab when look at the property of a site or virtual directory. This ASP.NET allows me to select the framework version for that particular site. On my production, I don't see that ...more >>

Well, I have a network admin that is running this whatsup professional software and for some reason it is hammering our web server with more than 10,000 hits per month. I'd like to block this machines IP address from either the log files or from being reported on awstats. I don't want to ...more >>

Odd problem with ampersand in file name... When a file is being retrived from the W2k Adv Server it cannot find it. When I put the same file on a W2k "Regular" server it finds it just fine. We have checked all the settings in the webserver and they are both SP 4 same version. The only differ...more >>

Hello, I am currently trying to migrate an asp site from one location to another, and one of the main differences is that the first box uses Visnetic WebSite on Win2k and the new box is Win2003 running IIS6. One of the issues I am having is with a 3rd party COM object we use to send info...more >>

We've got a 2k3 server running our intranet site. About once a week, the site becomes unavailable. I check the server, and there are no errors reported, nothing in the event logs, etc. All services are running at this time. To get the site back up, I restart the IIS service. This of cou...more >>

I'm getting the following error message: Error Type: Microsoft JET Database Engine (0x80040E37) The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot find the input table or query 'Courses'. Make sure it exists and that its name is spelled correctly. /myweb/connect.asp, line 15 where line 15=objRS.Ope...more >>

In IIS 5.0 I could have >1 catchall host header however in IIS 6.0 when I try and set one up it will not let me use a catchall host header. Is there some way to change this? ...more >>

Hi I'm using IIS6.0 with FPSE2002 installed and working correctly (I've run the suggested checks); I also have webs using a SQL connection via a global.asa file. When I create a new web (FPSE2002 working OK again) and use an Access DB thbis time, when viewing the ASP page that pulls thr...more >>

I've got IIS running to host sites using UNC paths pointing to a share on my Domain Controller. The sites work fine with the exception of granting anonymous access. IIS is using the local IUSR account to run, but obviously that doesn't exist on the DC, so I'm pretty sure that's the reason I'm ...more >>