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 >>

Hi, I have a IIS6/Win2003 based webserver set to use US English. Users from Japan store files on this server in their language. These files are accessible through the UNC share, but are not accessible through the HTTP path. The hyperlink properties show these files as boxes. Besides I do not se...more >>

Our web server is a brand new dual opteron machine running win2k3. Right now our sites run under the same app pool, which is setup with a max of 1 worker process. We run a lot of legacy COM code, unfortunately, so it may be the case that increasing the number of worker processes would cause is...more >>

I recently updated our Exchange 2003 server to Exchange 2003 SP1 and Windows 2003 SP1. Exchange works but I am receiving DCOM (Event ID: 10016) and COM+ (Event ID: 4830) errors. In addition IIS is no longer working properly. All attempts to connect to OWA (port 443) or Symantec (port 8081) resu...more >>

OK we're running our website on IIS 6. today i tried to upload a new javascript file to the website. I went to view the website to check whether the update had taken place. When the web page loaded i found that the new javascript was not being run. We've had this problem before so i went into II...more >>

I am developing ISAPI Extension DLL on VC++ (Win XP). I am working with IIS Version 5.1. I found in the MSDN example application Afxpool.exe - this project demonstrates mechanism of creating a thread pool for an MFC - based ISAPI Extension. In the file ThreadPool.cpp used SendData(...), thi...more >>

Hi, From an application install point of view I am interested to know a mechanism to programmatcially check if a particular web service extension is enabled or not on IIS 6.0 I read the following article http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/security/ws...more >>

Hello.. I am a newbie And want to start learning IIS ans using Asp .. Can u give me details of good books available online and in market to master IIS and ASP . Send reply Soon Email:niet_student@hotmail.com ...more >>

Hi, What's the equivalent of SCRIPTS folder of IIS 5.0 in IIS 6.0? We are trying to move one of our IIS 5.0 based apps to IIS 6.0 on Win2K3 platform. Our App has an ISAPI component that sits in the SCRIPTS folder. The application also has a client side (downloaded) component that keeps sendin...more >>

I installed a cert and can now offer my web (virtual directory) using SSL. How can I make that the only option? The VD currently serves up on port 80 (http) and port 443 (https). It seems so simple, but how do I do this at the VD level. I see how to do it at the Virtual Server level, but I am ...more >>

Hola, When I interogate the httperrors metabase property I only get back those error codes set to "File", the "Default" and "URL" ones (which are present in the IIS Snap-In Custom Error property page) don't show up... Anyone know where I can get and set the Default and URL http custom errors ...more >>

Anyone used virtual servers (multiple web sites )with the Jakarta Tomcat (AJP) connector? It looks like this isn't practical. I'd like each virtual server to front for a different tomcat instance, but can't see anyway to do this, and based on the way the connector's configured (from the regis...more >>

How I send mail for all my POP3 in windows2003 server ? I have 22000 accounts create with POP3 windows2003 thanks for ideas Marina ...more >>

Is there a way to exit a script in an asp page? In a plain vanilla vbscript I can call wscript.quit, but there doesn't seem to be a way to exit a vbscript in an asp page. thank your for your help john ...more >>

Hello everyone I've got two machines, one is a windows 2003 server, one is a windows xp pro. I've installed Index server on the XP machine, but then I try to access the administration console, I got a page not found error. On checking I found that I didn't have an iisadmin folder, or any ...more >>

I just rebuild a server and there are no menu items or module in the "Manage Computer" console to manage the IIS server. How do I get these back ?? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I searched the newsgroups and have already tried a few things which haven't resolved my problem. My setup is this; W2003 Standard Server acting as a file server (holding centralised content for one website - asp files and a lot of images) W2003 Web Edition Server using IIS to serve...more >>

I would like to write a program that finds all asp.net errors in iis logs? what characteristics should i look for? (a line in the log that has the error?) what about sql errors? Thanks in advance, Aaron ...more >>

I am trying to move my ASP.NET site from my XP Pro desktop to the webhosting service where I make it public. The site runs great on my desktop, where I have it in the root directory of XP Pro's IIS. However, when I move it to the webhosting service (which uses Windows Server 2003) all the page...more >>

Not sure where to ask this question, but here it is? I know that when we install IIS we get an SMTP server along with the localhost. Why does this not work. For instance when developing in PHP, perl, or ASP and I want to test the application on my laptop before uploading it to a live serv...more >>

I have a relatively simple but (seemingly common) dilemma. Here is my situation: I have a ASP.Net/VB.Net intranet application going against SQL Server which works great on a single IIS Server. It is a pretty straightfoward OLTP application with a database backend and also stores images/PD...more >>

I am using NLB to loadbalance two web servers. Having NLB only failover if the machine is down is not very useful and so I am looking for an easy way to monitor a url on each webserver and then script NLB to start/stop if the website is up/down. I have read lots of posts on this subject and ...more >>

Hi ISS6 run on windows 2003 server . I keep my DNS setting on the ISP dns server. I haven't configured my DNS server on ISS installed win2003 server. in outside when i check the dsn setting with nslookup command. it show my static ip address which is connect to my server directly ...more >>

Hi All Is their a limit on the number of web sites that IIS 5.0 can handle? -Solomon...more >>

Greetings. I've got IIS 5.1 and XP Professional Service Pack 2. I've disabled Microsoft Firewall for all connections and even turned it off entirely. Unfortunately, when attempting to access the websites on the localhost, I can't reach the pages. I end up with a "Cannot find Server or DN...more >>

Hello, We have two web sites and public access it with http://Site1.OurDomin.com and http://Site2.OurDomin.com, now, I have this new application, I created a web site for it and I want reach this application as http://myApp.OurDomin.com, I am not familiar with IIS side and I do not know how...more >>

Hello, Do I have to create virtual directory in our internet or intranet to get web site working? What is exactly virtual directory for? Is there any site that talks about this. Thanks, ...more >>

i changed the default web site to point to the url /exchange which is a virtual directory within the default web site. i answered yes to reflect changes on the child objects, when i should've said no. iis 6.0 changed all the virtual directories to /exchange. i can change the default web sit...more >>

Hello, Following problem occurred on Windows 2000 Server SP4 with Microsoft Exchange 2000 SP3 - only IISAdmin service can be started. Other services report following system errors: > net start w3svc System error 87: The parameter is incorrect > net start smtpsvc System error 87: ...more >>

We have some web applications with web services and are having some issues with IIS. Sometimes when we reboot the server, some of the web services fail to come back up (i.e. none of the WebMethods are available to client apps and a default page with no WebMethods is listed if you type the .asmx...more >>

Hi, I've windows 2003 with IIS 6.0 (with 100 domains) and I recently installed SP1. 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 Front...more >>

I have Visual Studio .NET and SQL Server Desktop Engine on my computer. I have created an empty database using Visual Studio .NET's Server Explorer. However, I am having trouble connecting to the database using ASP.NET. I think the problem is somewhere in my connection string, but because I do no...more >>

I have a Windows 2000 Server that was upgraded to Windows 2003. I am unable to download any exe files. I get the following error: CGI Timeout The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time for processing. The server has deleted the process. I can change the file exension to a z...more >>

Hello, I am doing MDI child window in MFC. I have a combobox on the toolbar in mainframe. How can i reset the combobox and list a new item everytime i click on child window. Let say, i have 3 child window opened. Then i click window number 1, i want the property of window 1 such as "window nubm...more >>

I know until recently to do SSL for multiple domains on one server, host headers were not enough and that separate IP addresses were required for each SSL certificate. However, according to KB 187504, Windows Server 2003 SP1 now supports SSL for host header-based sites. Unfortunately, after ...more >>

Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to manipulate Application Pools property programmatically. Application Pools became available from Windows Server 2003, so I guess this would be specific to Windows Server 2003. Any Win32 API or nice COM or .NET objects I could call to change values? ...more >>

Hi! I've got a problem attaching the Script Debugger to ASP pages under IIS6. Set up everything following IIS6 documentation: turned on ASP debug in IIS Manager; edited permissions for Machine Debug Manager in the DCOM configuration, giving Launch and Activate permissions to Network Service ...more >>

Hi, Created a clean fresh 2003 server, after transferring sites across and creating the iis directories i find that none of my asp pages will show, just get a http 500 error: The page cannot be displayed. all html pages work fine, what checks do i need to complete to make sure asp is enabl...more >>

Hello. I need to configure IIS to allow http access to a site when accessed from local machines ( LAN ) and also i need to allow only https access for the same site when accessed from internet (remote machines). Is there a way to do this ?!? Thank you a lot. Bye...Luca ...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with user authorisation in that certain members of a groups can access my website but not others. There are no restrictions set through the file system (IIS 5, Win2K Server). We have basic authentication and integrated windows set. When using integrated windows authen...more >>

Hi All, I have a .Net (2.0 beta 2) smart client running on windows XP, connected to a .Net (2.0 beta 2) web service running on windows 2003. When I don't asking for request from the server for more than 2 min the http connection is close, I see it on performance monitor, to create the new...more >>

I wrote a simple ISAPI extension without using MFC. However, it seems = right after the dll is loaded into IIS, it gets unloaded immediately without even the = GetExtensionVersion being called. What I saw in the log file is DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH: Application Name =3D .... DLL_PROCESS_DET...more >>

Hi,=20 I posted this question before, but I couldn't find the thread any more. We want to map the URLs for this form http://www.mysite.com/myapp/xxx/path/yyy/myisapi.dll to a single ISAPI extension myisapi.dll, where xxx and yyy can be any = subpath=20 of the form path1/path2/.../pathn...more >>

I have moved a site from an NT 4.0 server to 2003 Server. All the subfolders of each subweb are all marked "Script and Execute" but shouldn't be. Is there a way to change all of them to none at one time? Why would this happen? Thanks. ...more >>

We have an existing Windows 2000 server hosting 2 web sites. The directory structure is this: default | \ site1 site2 That way, when I install an applications, I can specify a directory like "site1\foo" or "site2\bar" and everything works like a charm. We have a new 2003 server to ...more >>

Is there any place that list who the current Tier 1 Providers are? ...more >>

Every time I add a new virtual path to IIS5.1, I have to change the home directory path of "default web site" to match the physical path of the virtual folder, in order to run the application, or else I get the error message that the file can't be found. is there something I can set so IIS...more >>

I have been running IIS 6 for several months with no issues, then all o the sudden i am recieving a 404 error response on all ASP pages. ASP.net Pages function properly and HTM pages work fine. The Serve log shows that it is requesting the page but is returning a 404. I have verified that th...more >>

I have an asp application running on both iis5 and iis6. (not .net) The server ruhnning IIS5 has no problem running my application. IIS6 randomly times out WEB users. The session timeout is set for 60 minutes. I will get timed out in iis6 in less than 5 minutes. Are there any o...more >>

What permitions or setting do a I have to configure in IIS 6.0 to enable run Scripts on my site ? Thanks,...more >>

I created an activeX control that will execute a specific DOS command in client machine. when execute the file it works fine, but when move the file to the wwwroot and tried to access the HTML page through the webserver as following http://machinename/test.htm and script error raised said ( ...more >>

Hallo, I am working with SharePoint about few months ago, now I need to deploy a site that use my WebPart Library. I ask you about two issues: 1) I need to authenticate users with login page of my Site asking another system by WebService, so but I don't know how do it (I want avoid "Connect t...more >>

Hi all, Have SBS 2003 running IIS behind a dlink router port farwarding 80. Server has windows update running. IIS is setup with basic authentication for the whole site so no one sees the site without valid account. I am getting a few (not many) complaints that users cannot logon when pr...more >>