Hi I have a small website running on IIS and I was wondering if it is possible to have a second site. They don't have to be running at the same time as I only will need to put them on line on request. If it is possible, how do I set it up with regards to folders, default document etc....more >>

This might sound crazy, I have a user who would like to have internet users access her site without knowing anything about URLs; for example, she wants them to be able to type mycompany.com http://mycompany.com mycompany in the URL window and have her site come up. In other words, she w...more >>

This article explains how to set up the Cache-Control with script for a particular directory using a command line or ADSI. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;247404 This only seems to work for a virtual directory, as sub-directories don't show up in the ADSI object model. ...more >>

I switched webhosting companys not too long ago and I'm still sort of moving in. checking over my logs I noticed alot of people hotlinking to some of my files. I hadn't seen that in a long while because I setup an .htaccess file originally to prevent that sort of thing but hadn't uploaded ...more >>

I'd like to write a VBS that will help me set up project directories in our dev environment, as well as creating the necessary websites and virtual directories in IIS. Please point me to some documentations which exemplify this. Thank you in advance. ...more >>

Hi All, IIS6 running on a W2k3 server stops responding appr. once a week. IIS hosts a couple of asp.net apps and a web interface for our e-mail server (www.mdaemon.com). Last time it stopped responding, I could successfully ping the server and also open a ftp connection to the server (Secure F...more >>

Server 2003 standard with IIS6, only used for SUS 1.0 I've been at this problem for a while, and I'd like to resolve it before attempting to upgrade to the now released WSUS. Auto Update clients are not updating. I'm seeing 401.3 errors in IIS's logs. I see the 401.3 error in the browser w...more >>

Hello, I have recently migrated a web app from Win2K server/IIS5 to server Win2k3/IIS6. With IIS 5, when a user attempted to access a file they did not have access to, the app queried security to check permissions. With IIS 6, I am not seeing security being queried and the user is able to a...more >>

I have a II6 brand new setup on a dual pentium 2.8 ghz w/ 1GB Ram setup and all RAID 5 SCSI drives. IIS6 seems to be very slow when opening sites, pages or even saving pages. It's even slower on another server that's a single cpu with ide drive. The one thing that comes to mind is both of t...more >>

Good Morning. Is there a way to have IIS 6 automatically include a header file on every HTML page for a specific website? I know there is a way to include a footer file, but what about a header file? I'm looking for something similar to Apache's version of mod_layout. Something I can set v...more >>

I already posted this on the WIN2K3 forum. I am trying to load balance my intranet site. Right now I have it configured for 2 server's. The NLB setup went fine. I tested it with a simple HTML page and evrything works fine. I try to get my intranet site up and running and I can't get it ...more >>

I've got IIS 5.1 installed on my Windows XP Pro system. The localhost site works fine. That PC is connected to the Internet with a cable modem and I have the ZoneAlarm firewall. Is it possible for me to allow just one person (or maybe a small group) to view the Web site hosted by my IIS? I'...more >>

I am trying to connect to a Microsoft Access Database from my ASP.NET Application. I use the following code to create my connection string: cmdSelect.Connection = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection("PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;DATASOURCE=" & Server.MapPath("/WebApplication1/nathanso...more >>

Hi, This is Kiran ,new member of this group and would like to post m issue. We are about to move a SECURE SSL WEBSITE which is running on IIS4 t IIS5. 1) Is it possible to use the same certificate of IIS4 in IIS5 . 2) If its possible what are the possible steps to be done 3) If its...more >>

this is doing my heads in. for quite a while, application pools begin to crash from one minute to another. sometimes after 3-5 days without problems, other times shortly (2-3h) after rebooting the server. the eventlog error shows always the same message (see end of post), but for different a...more >>

I am running Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 I get the following message when viewing any pages but the default web page. HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. Internet Information Services (IIS) IUSR is a member of guest If I give the ISUR account admin rights ...more >>

I would like to create new Web sites as fast as possible. All Web sites on my IIS6 Web server will be close variations of an existing Web site on the same server. I am currently using one script (iisweb.vbs) to create new Web sites, and then another script (iisvdir.vbs) to create 12 virtual...more >>

Hi All, I have been having issues with a production server having one specifi application pool that seems to hang. Any help much appreciated. attached the log file. Thanks! Regards, -Adam +------------------------------------------------------------------- |Filename: IISState-100...more >>

Hi All, I have a problem I haven't ran across before: I got a new Machine running WinXP pro and set up .NET and Visual Studio on it. I also installed IIS and it's working, but I can't open property box for any of the virtual directories. My previous PC had exact same set up, although it ...more >>

Hey, Have posted this before but seem to have lost the thread. I seem unable to map a drive using UNC convention from my IIS 5 server to a remote file share on a Domain File Server. There is no trust and the IIS server is outside the domain. This is not a name or DNS resolution issue,...more >>

Does anyone know of a method for replicating FTP sites among multiple IIS 5.0 servers? I'm looking for a way to have redundant FTP servers but I need a method to ensure the meta data and virtual directories can be synchronized. Any ideas? Ron...more >>

We have an SSL certificate on a web server that is accessed by internal intranet clients as well as external clients over the Internet. Therefore, we have installed a root SSL certificate from a certificate provider (such as Verisign) vs generating one ourselves. The name on the certificate ...more >>

Can somone let me know where should I post questions on Index Server? I would like to index our Intranet contents, I believe using Microsoft Index Server I can achieve this. I would like to have documentation on how to index various documents and other related information. Or if anyone know...more >>

As per the warning about enabling parents paths, am I protected if I do this? I have a root web, lets say "www.rootweb.ca" which is a parent folder with a default.htm page. The default.htm has hyperlinks to subfolders like "www.rootweb.ca/childfolder/default.asp In the home directory tab of "...more >>

If I create web address www.example/test site. I can creat the site but in a browser the url will display % signs between test and site. Is the only way to do this to eliminate that www.example/testsite? ...more >>

Hi all, Is it possible to customize the IIS directory listing? In what dll does the directory listing component located? I've been googling but failed to find any solution. I need to build a UI which allows access to a certain location with HTTP and WebDAV, and switch from HTTP interfa...more >>

Hi there. Can anybody tell me if session state will have any influence on the performance for a website under IIS 6. What Ive heard is that there should be great advantage in performance by turning session state off. /Morten ...more >>

Hi, There is a strange error on our server (iis 6 win2003) Server pauses for 9-10 seconds in every 4 minutes and it does thi perodically. There are 10 web sites hosted in server, tried to sto them one by one but error still occured. Only the ASP pages are no served when it's paused, stati...more >>

Hello, How do I limit number of combined downloads from each client? A typical example is Microsoft website: Goto MSDN/.NET Shows link and try to download the Shows to your local hard disk. It will allow only 2 active downloads. The 3rd download will begin only if any of the first 2 are...more >>

Whenever I try to access my web site by going to Internet Explorer and typing in localhost. I also cannot write applications from VIsual Studio .NET, as it says it cannot access the server. Thanks in advance, ProMaker....more >>

I need to use Microsoft Access 2003 as a database for my website. I would like to test my site on my home computer using the version of IIS that comes with Windows XP Professional. However, I am not sure how to set up Microsoft Access to do this. Can anyone help me here, or possibly give me a ...more >>

Hello, I would like to do some website design for small companys and would like to know how I can host more than one site on a single server. Is there program I can use? Any help would be great! Martin *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***...more >>

Hi all expert, I have two domain name www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com and I would like to know how to setup them on one IIS with only a public IP. Thanks Rena. ...more >>

Our web server seems to stop serving ASP pages, but html and asp.net pages still load. I found the IISstate tool and ran after the crash, but I don't know if this log tells me anything helpful. Your help is appreciated. ...more >>

Hi, I've just started with IIS and have a web site running. However I want to create a form for the user to input certain information. How do I get an HTML web form to submit the information to a text file. I have found the necessary HTML tags on the web to create the form, the text bo...more >>

Hi, I have a 500MB avi file which i would like to share with internal users. How can i enable media streaming so that users do not have to wait for the file to be downloaded completely before playing it ? thanks ...more >>

i have 6 or so sites on a webserver. i've setup all sites on the server with no problem.However, one site is giving me a big problem. I setup www.mywebsite.com fine. Setup frontpage exts with no problem. When I setup www.adminsite.mywebsite.com, IIS6 seems to setup fine. Problem is when I g...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to map URL's of the following format to a specific dll? http://www.mysite.com/myapp/xxx/mypath/yyy/my.dll =3D=3D> my.dll where xxx and yyy can be any arbitary sub-path (eg. = path1/path2/.../pathn). We have an ISAPI module that generates dynamic web pages. Howev...more >>

We migrated our ASP.Net apps from a Win2000 server running IIS 5 to a Win2003 server running IIS 6. The new server has more processors, much faster processors, and more RAM. Yet, we're seeing performance problems running ASP.Net apps on the new server. Here's what I see: Running taskmgr, we...more >>

Hi, can any one tell me how can i host multiple sites on myserver with one public ip regards Lara ...more >>

Hi all ! I think that I have an external component that is causing my out-of-process application to crash. What I find very strange is that the exact same script, with the exact same component, works perfectly on 3 other servers on which I tried them. Is it possible that this is indeed an A...more >>

Hi, I've got a problem with multiple threads IIS (ISAPI) application. My application create many new threads (_beginthreadex). It generate many memory leaks, but only under Windows 2003 Server. Example: // Test thread unsigned __stdcall mm_ArchivizerDownloadWatcher(void *ptr) { Sleep...more >>

Hi.... I wanna know if someone could give me some tips aboutt the correct setup of the DefaultAppPooll... The trouble began about some weeks ago when we install the new server with Windows Server 2003 and IIS6... before that everything was working ok with NT. In the event viewer the error is...more >>

Hi All I am getting an ADO Error on the server which seems to depend on the client's network address. I have two computers on a home network connecting to the internet through a router with a fixed IP address. The website is on one of the computers. The router port 80 is forwarded to ...more >>

Hi I've got a problem where IIS seems to be caching certain ASP files randomly. I have a specific ASP file that displays a live feed from bloomburg, but now and again, the page seems to be cached even thought the source feed has changed. This is not browser cache as it happens on a variety ...more >>

Sorry if I've posted this to the wrong place !! Win 2003 running IIS. Mercury Mail PHP Perl I would like to be able to automate file downloads from remote sites. Either by filling in a form with the full URL, or emailing the details to my server. (even if this requires a new address to ...more >>

Hi list ! I am trying to debug an Out-of-process application that is failing from time to time (event id 37 for w3svc in the system event log). I am trying to use iistate to debug it, but I keep getting "ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.", even thought iistate tells me that the symbol...more >>

I'm having trouble with a classic ASP application hanging on a 2K3 server. The page tries to retreive data from a SQL server, but never gets a response. It doesn't time out for about 30 minutes, and the CPU utilization on the Web server stays around 20%. Recycling the application will force it...more >>

I have a file server that has multiple servers connecting to it to retrieve content files via UNC paths. The problem we are seeing is that after a few weeks, we get a message that indicates that we have run out of connections. When I look under Computer Management -> Shared Folders -> Sess...more >>

Once again, the state agency I'm at in the morning is determined to unjustly spend a ton of money. Now they want a "search" function on their site and want to buy this Google piece of hardware for $3k and then a license fee of $1k per year. Sigh.....I don;t want to have to support yet another...more >>

I have the following situation :- Objects A and B reside inside MyDLL. I have an ASP running under IIS 6.0 which creates an instance of Object A and invokes a run_app method within it. This method Runs an executable using a CreateProcess call (CreateProcessA within kernel32) . This executa...more >>

Hi, I am trying to restrict access to my site to certain IP addresses. I am running IIS5 in a Windows XP Professional SP2 box. The "Edit" button under "IP address and domain name restrictions" group box in Directory security tab is disabled. What do I do to enable the button? I would apprecia...more >>

I created a website using dreamweaver. I used dreamweaver to publish the site to IIS. When I enter the website in my URL I get the message; You are not authorized to view this page! I'm thinking it has something to do with the server extensions installed on the server. I'm intent on using...more >>

Hi everybody, I'm looking for some information on how to solve the following problem: Suppose I have two domain names (let's call them www.1st.com and www.2nd.com). Basically, www.1st.com is just another domain name with the exact same content and structure as www.2nd.com. I do not want to ...more >>

Have just installed IIS on my Windows XP machine but when I type localhost into Internet Explorer I get "Page not found" etc etc. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but makes no difference. Can someone give me clues as to what might be causing this problem? I am not at all knowledgeable...more >>

Im not sure exactly what is wrong here it used to work. From what i can tell from the internet its all good i can access the different sites based on the domain names from elsewhere.. Internal network must be part of the problem i can only access the default website using http://webname.com ...more >>

For some reason that feature is ghosted in my IIS settings. Any idea why it can be? Anything else has to be activated first? I wanted to allow access only localhost and one external IP address, because that's all I need and lately my server has been under continuous attack. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

I've been developing for quite some time locally (localhost). Since yesteday I find that suddenly localhost cannot be found, which forces me to reset the service. It has happened twice so far today. I haven't done any system changes myself, so I wonder if I have have been hacked. What stuff shoul...more >>

Will turning on the IIS6 compression change any of the info that is logged into the IIS log files? I'm not compressing my Coldfusion pages, or would that be recommended? Steve...more >>

I have used 'underscores' in host headers under IIS 5.0 without any issues but now under IIS 6.0 in IIS Manager I can't enter a host header containing 'underscores'. Is this no longer allowed or there is a configuration setting (registry entry) that I need to change to allow this. Any help wil...more >>

I have a web application running on Tomcat (port 8080) and I would like to know whether I could get IIS to redirect all requests to this server and port using host headers or something? Thanks, Grant ...more >>

hi, I have a server and have 2 IP adresses on one adapter configured. My Problem is: When The IIS starts, he grabs on all IP-adresses the port 443. But I want the IIS on one IP listening on 443 and on the other ip, I want a different application to listen on port 443 I have assigned the IP...more >>

Hello, I'm searching a soft or method to monitor the iis sessions in real time. I want to know the actual active sessions, page request, ip, time, duration ..... and a kill function to terminate an individual session. Some idea? Thanks a lot. ...more >>

hi, Some of my asp files have UTF-8 format include files. The pages were displaying fine on my development machine. When i deployed the pages on the live server some junk characters are shown. Both machines are Windows 2000 server with SP4 installeed. The only other difference my be that IIS...more >>

Greetings, I want limit the bandwidth of the downloads requests of iis. (w2000: iis5.0) I see the bandwidth limit option of ISS but this is for total site not for function or directory. How can i do it? I can create a independent site for downloads to limit here the bandwidth? How work t...more >>

I currently have one machine running windows 2000 server that I promoted to a PDC. It also runs SQL 7 server and IIS 5.0. I acquired windows server 20003, and I want to migrate the win2k pdc to win server 2k3, that I will promote to a high-end domain controller. I wonder if someone with exper...more >>

we have static intranet site which seems to be working fine without any displayed errors on IE, however, I just realized that "http-error 401" is filling the log with every users' access to the site. I have cross-checked users permission both on IIS and folders. The site is configured with ...more >>

Hello Mohammed, I installed the SUS service on a windows 2003 standard server (Not in a domain), now I want to force an update on new systems with windows XP (pro and home). I installed some settings in the registry (by NWsusutil.exe) and I also tried your published settings. I read a lot ...more >>

Dear Sir, I have bought new PC windows XP Pro SP2. I was trying to install IIS 5.1 through control panel. While installation when the set up configuring SMTP it hanged. And I uninstall IIS and again installed IIS without SMTP. The installation finished successfully. But when I open the d...more >>

Hi, We have a large ASP/VBScript application (on Win2K/IIS5) with man include files, and our IIS Dllhost process has always been very large 500 - 700 MB. Recently, however, we introduced a few changes to th application (started using some .Net code accessed through COM, an added some more m...more >>

Hi I'm trying to understand IIS a bit better and there is a strange window in Services Internet(IIS) >Properties of WebSite>Configuration that has be baffled. I can't be sure of the exact phrases in English but it is more or less 'Methods of authentification' with a check box for 'anon...more >>

Hi After 3 days of trying , I have finally managed to get into (via the net) my ..www site on my computer. But it is not opening as I expected. I get a directory like an FTP server. I have checked the default page option and index.htm is in the wwwroot folder with the rest of the fil...more >>

I have a .dll file installed in virtual directory on web site in Windows XP IIS. It works just fine i.e. I could navigate to http://localhost/virtualdir/myfile.dll and see the results of the dll output in a browser. However, when I put the same dll file into the virtual directory on Windows ...more >>

Hi all, I am unable to tell exactly what is crashing from an IIState log. Any hints would be appreciated as I would like to be able to do this myself. Also, should I be concerned by the prelavent "stack unwind information not available" in the logs? *********************** Starting ne...more >>

I am writing simple ASP pages using server side Javascript. I have a page products.asp which lists all products. When user clicks on a product, I am opening a new window using window.open method and showing products detail information. But for some reason, when I open a new window, my parent wi...more >>

Faulting application w3wp.exe, version 6.0.3790.1830, faulting module mfc42.dll, version 6.6.8063.0, fault address 0x00022659. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. I have done all I could to troubleshoot this. I ran IISState and pr...more >>

My IISADMIN service keeps crashing which causes other services to stop. Since Exchange is mentioned in log is it the cause or just showing in the log as part of the problem... and of course ideas how to fix it. 6/1/2005 11:54:38 AM Application Error Error -100 1000 N/A FHEX01 Faulting applic...more >>

I would like to allow a download of a file with the extension .ams. I'd rather not zip the file because it referenced in quite a few tech documents. I was hoping the user could click on the link to the file and download it, but currently that doesn't work and it seems to be an iis issue. H...more >>

What Web Service Extensions should we use for IIS 6.0 on an Exchange 2K3 server box? I tried to use log parser on W3C files from our Exchange 2k server, but there was no output. Thanks in advance....more >>

If I have 2 web servers setup Win2k3 Web Server Edition (not SP1) (in an NLB configuration), can I point WWW1 IIS Logs to be written to WWW2 IIS log location? Will they merge correctly? Thanks, Dan Foxley ...more >>

During heavy activity, IIS starts throwing ASP_0113 (script timeout) and ASP_0147 (500 error) errors on certain pages - other pages return fine. Restarting IIS clears things up, but if the activity continues we see it happen again in 1-2 hours. The last time it stopped working, I ran iisstate on...more >>

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I was wondering if someone could shed some light on a question I have .... I have an IIS 6.0 site w/ FPSE installed. When I download a file from the site with a browser I get around 400+ kbps however with FrontPage the transfer rate drops to 20 kbps. Any ideas? ...more >>

hi i'm trying to do : <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="myurl..../inc/css/style.css"/> from the url field of the browser i can normally open the "style.css" with notepad but iis don't match the file by itself ?? should i add some configuration to run CSS ? i'm using URLScan and...more >>

Hello All, We have a strange problem.We have multiple web sites on a Windows Server 2003 (enterprise edition) web farm on IIS 6.Some of them having ..asp extensions are not working properly.For example, when a browser attempt to connect, we get no error or response, the browser locks and gett...more >>

Regarding website setup on a Active Directory Domain with a single DC and all Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition machines: I have an IIS web server on one of machines. I need to add an specific IP to the ACL so that requests from this IP can request pages from this website. How do I do thi...more >>

I need to give a user the right to see the properties of a website/ftpsite but not be able to change anything. How do I do this?...more >>

I'm hoping someone here can help me figure out way my iis locks up randomly 2-3 times a day. All sites become unavailable and it comes back up by itself usually between 5-10 mins. I ran IISSTATE when it was down. Thanks in advance. Opened log file 'C:\iisstate\output\IISState-2140.log' **...more >>

I can't get asp pages to render in IIS 6 even though the web server extension is allowed. The site runs fine in IIS 5 however Can anyone help me in this problem Thanks in Advance...more >>

We have a web site using IIS 5 running Php 4.2.1 under Windows 2000 server. All updates have been installed. Unfortunately, the inetinfo.exe process has been going to 99-100% processor usage pretty consistantly and we have not been able to find the cause. We installed and ran the IISSTATE p...more >>

I have a strange problem in IIS6 If I set a page such as myPage.asp as my default start document and I type the address without explicitly adding the page name e.g localhost/mySite then myPage.asp displays correctly. However, if it type the full URL e.g. localhost/mySite/myPage.asp , I get ...more >>

Hi, I disabled all logging in IIS 5 a while back but can't remember how I did it. Does anyone here know how it can be done (and hence un-done). I think it was a registry hack. All the sites in IIS still say they're logging but none of them do. TIA, Chandy ...more >>

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Hi, Im a little confused on this one. Normally I grant the IUSR account access to folders that web pages are under so that they can be accessed on the internet. This also stops customers traversing up the directory tree and into other customers folders. Recently ive had staff adding new web...more >>

Hi all, How can I get my webcam to be seen on the web? http://kujen.dnsalias.com/Test/Test2/Test2.htm I have opened the firewall port: TCP 8080 TCP 80 Image server is started. What can be wrong? /Kent J. ...more >>