Hi Since installing my website on my computer, when I right click a folder, there is an option 'Share Web' (or sth very similar in English) and the address of my Website. As most of the folders are not in my rootdirectory and inaccessible from my default Web page, (having nothing to do w...more >>

I'm currently leasing a (remote) Windows 2000 server and will be upgrading to Windows 2003. I would really like to avoid having problems and therefore, would like to ask the following questions: 1) I currently have a few domains sharing a single IP address (host headers) as well as some...more >>

Our accounting program is a web application, .NET based, running on IIS. The backend is SQL 2000 on a different server. I am building a new Windows 2003 IIS server for this application. I want to make sure that from the perspective of hardware and configuration, it is optimized, since it is a...more >>

Cross posting here as recommended by Bob. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions please let me know. Thanks B ------------------------------------------- "Bob Barrows [MVP]" <reb01501@NOyahoo.SPAMcom> wrote: Nope. I'm assuming MDAC is installed and working on the server*. I haven't a ...more >>

I've got a network running (all 2k) with one server as the DC (Server1) and the others as members of the network. I've got IIS running on Server2. I'd like to configure the websites from the IIS console on Server2 to use a UNC path that is actually located on a drive of Server1. I've created a...more >>

I have a QA Webserver running iis 6.0 hosting multiple websites. Up until now we have been running .NET framework 1.1 sp1. Now the probability is I will need to host an application developed with the ..Net Framework 2.0 (most likely beta2) My question is, will installing this application...more >>

Hi, I recently was excited to learn and receive a DDNS address and domain. Now I want to use it to publish a web page. I have XP and W2k with IIs installed. How do I publish to my site? Can anyone give me any advice. Don ...more >>

I've got a special file type that I'm linking to within a web site that we've built. When I click on this file, IE opens the file as text inside of an IE window. Isn't there a way using mime mapping that I can force this type of file to ALWAYS initiate a download to file dialog instead of bein...more >>

Yes I just setup a new webserver I have moved the default home directory to another harddrive and when I run an msi to install an new website I get this error "The specific path 'http://servername/foldername' is unavailable. The Internet Information Server might not be running or the path ex...more >>

Another error: Error Type: Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A01F4) Variable is undefined: 'adCmdTable' /myweb/connect.asp, line 14 Line 14: objRS.Open "Available Courses", objConn, , , adCmdTable where "Available Courses" is a table in a MS Acess DB (office 2003). ...more >>

Error Type: Server object, ASP 0177 (0x800401F3) Invalid class string /myweb/connect.asp, line 13 This is line 13: Set objRS=Server.CreateObject("ADOB.Recordset") I don't know how to fix this....more >>

Is there a way to configure IIS 6.0 to return the "last-modified" header for all static files? The documentation states this is automatic for both HTML and image files (e.g. GIF). Testing has only found HTML files to return "last-modified". Is a custom ISAPI filter/extension the only way t...more >>

The spider gets the below error message. Authentication scheme NTLM not supported error when using Verity Spider Issue When running Verity Spider (vspider) in Macromedia ColdFusion, the following error may be encountered: Warn 2004/03/07 21:05:50 (ind022005) Authentication scheme NTLM...more >>

006~ASP 0177~Server.CreateObject Failed~800a801d...more >>

I am in process of setting up a website on Windows 2003 and IIS 6.0. I created a vitual directory but when i want to access it from remote computer using IP then it displays a User authentication window. Even if i try to access this site from local machine using IP it works same but when i us...more >>

Dear all Currently our web server is running 100% CPU Usage and process tha causing this is w3wp.exe. I ran a IISState and pointing to PID (w3wp.exe) and not reall understand how this log representing to. I attached this log file for you to review. Could you please give a guidance reg...more >>

IIS Fails Intermittently I have a Windows 2000 server with IIS that hosts about 50 WEB sites. I have periods where I have re-boot the server many times as IIS is not functioning correctly. I have checked event logs and found :- Source: W3SVC, Event ID 28 Source: W3SVC, Event ID 37 The...more >>

Hi, I recently upgraded my Windows 2000 EE server running IIS 5 to Windows 2003 EE SP1 with IIS 6.0. Seems my host headers are not working correctly. I have two web sites set up, both of which use the same IP address and the same port (port 80). One web site uses host headers to redirec...more >>

I am working with 2 com object dlls that are located in WINNT/SYSTEM32 directory. When I need to make changes to the DLLs, I need to do the following: 1. stop IIS 2. unregister and register the 2 COM object, and 3. restart IIS. Is there any way that I can move the newest COM object DLLs to ...more >>

Hi... We're mapping out what we need to do to migrate from IIS 5 to IIS 6, and one of the snags we've hit is with the change to the process model. We have an ISAPI filter which fetches a config and keeps stats on various types of requests that flow through the system. Under IIS 5, ISAPI...more >>

I am using windows 2000. I want to setup FTP site. I want user to type in their login and password before getting into the ftp site. anybody know how should I achieve this thanks ...more >>

Hello, all. I have the need to install WebSphere (for a project) on the same server running IIS. My question is, is this even possible? IIS will still have to run since we have a few ASP.NET apps running. The server is Windows 2003. Thanx! Roz ...more >>

Hi, We have an IIS5 server that will not serve ASP.NET Pages when calling an ASP.NET page like http://localhost/test.aspx the webserver response with Error 404 Not Found the file is there. The IIS has just stopped serving ASP.NET pages without any reason. Any idea wath could be wrong? ...more >>

Good afternoon Developers dex, I have developed a fairly complex web app that hits a 14 million row SQl Server table. It work great on my desktop web server. I deployed it to the production server using the method outlined in the 'Deploying' section of this the tutorial at http://msdn.micr...more >>

Hi! Im looking for some help and advises to configure my web server, here are some points about the hardware configuration: Pentium IV 2.8 GHZ 1 GB of RAM And some average traffic information (per mounth): about 9.000.000 hits, with 1.700.000 page views, 50.000 visitor sessions with 70.00...more >>

I'm running ASP classic that performs CreateObject() on a VB6 DLL. This works fine on W2K with IIS 5.0, but not on IIS6. I get the classic 'ActiveX component can't create object' error message from the ASP page. We've tried creating a package in COM+ to run as admin, running the application...more >>

I have a wierd issue here - I have a web site on IIS with some .aspx files in it that work fine. I put some .aspx files in a subdirectory, and they still execute fine. I convert that subdirectory to an IIS Application, and then all the .aspx files fail with this error message: Server Erro...more >>

Our webserver crashes for no particular reson, and I am very new to the IT field. Little by little I have been picking up on things and thus I came across a debugger for IIS. And.. wait patiently for the crash to occur. I have several logs of crashes but I believe most of it is not importa...more >>

our web group would like to implement Server-Side Includes on their new design of the site on HTM and/or HTML pages for static content, primarily using the #INCLUDE tag. from what i've come up with so far: 1) since ASP pages are already in use, they can parse content to ssinc.dll - no ad...more >>

Hi We've been having problems with our IIS server; from time to time, DLLHost with go to 100% usage of the CPU, and stay there until we restart IIS. It seems to happen intermittently - we'll be fine for weeks, then it'll happen twice in a morning. I assume that there's either something that...more >>

i have winxp pro sp2 & iis 5.1 installed. when i try to access my website like: "localhost/website" there is no problem, but when i try to access it like: "10.0.0.*/website", ie says: page not found, ff says: connection refused when attempting to connect 10.0.0.*. i have external ip and i wan...more >>

(Assuming this is the correct newsgroup for attribute/reflection questions) I've just tried to make an attribute on a class an array but get the error message: Property or field 'Test' does not have a valid attribute type This infers that you can't use all variable types as attribute param...more >>

I am somewhat new to ASP.NET, and need to know how to move my completed site from my IIS server (the one that comes with XP Pro) where I test it to my web hosting service (which uses Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0) where I will be hosting my site. My basic questions are: 1. Which files do ...more >>

how can I add a web site outside of the default web site? I have created a partition (v:\) which I would like to use for all web sites. ...more >>

I have IIS6 on windows enterprise server 2003 on a virtual machine, hosting a couple of web and ftp sites (which work fine). I have a php form (the code works because I have tested it on a different server) which I want to send to my e-mail address. Can some-one point me in the right direction...more >>

I'm very new to IIS - so sorry if this is an "RTFM" type of question. Is there a way I can back up all of the Web site definitions to a file? The scenario I'd like to be able to recover from is if my server completely crashes and I have to bring up all sites on a different/clean server. Is ...more >>

For development purposes, I used to uncheck the "Cache ISAPI extensions" option in the Application Configuration dialog box. This way, I didn't have to restart the web server process every time I wanted to recompile my ISAPI extension. Now with IIS 6, this option does not seem to do anythin...more >>

I often use the command line SUBST command to assign drive letters to specific folder, for example: subst X: f:\source If I use this new driver letter X to point to a ISAPI extension or create a virtual directory for a website, IIS 6 cannot find the files. If I use the original path (f:\sou...more >>

Hi, I was wondering how some web site hosts give out sub domains on their domains. An example is one user having the domain user1.freehost.com, and another user having user2.freehost.com. How can this be done in IIS6? Is there a tutorial I can follow? Thank you in advance, Tim. ...more >>

I am having an interesting problem. When I try to download a 107MB file using the https: protocol, it fails at ~100MB everytime. However, when I use the http:// protocol, it works fine. This is happening on my production server. However, on my QA server, I don't see any issues with the htt...more >>

is IIS 6.0 only for server 2003. Is 5.1 the latest for developers? Thanks, G ...more >>

Hello, I have a few servers with Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 = Servers installed and .NET Framework 1.1 installed on all the servers. = These are shared servers with multiple websites running on the same IP. = I have written a small code which returns the name of the URL on which = ...more >>

I have a problem regarding W3C Extended Log File Format (IIS 6.0). In default Web site properties, the option When the file reaches size (50 MB) was checked and I made a change to Daily logs (format : exyymmdd). After that change, everything was OK for three days... But, then the log name was...more >>

People, this is an old post I found that was related to the exact problem I am now having but it did not appear to provide a resolution to the issue. The pages are seemingly working, but are giving frequent errors of web site not available and clogging the event viewer with the same message o...more >>

Hi, I have been using CustomAuth and can get it to work using the default login page. I can also get it to work using a simple html login page that is essentially similar to the default login page. However what I cannot get to work is when I try and use a more complex ASP.NET login page...more >>

Is it possible to change the port that IIS listens on for SSL connections?? If so how do you do it. Thanks in advance Ceti...more >>

I am running a domain on a server 'ServerA'. On this server, I am running several websites ('WebA' 'WebB', etc). I can put Server Extensions on any website without any problem. but when going to a subweb, say 'WebB/Sub1', it brings up a windows authentication screen requiring me to sign in....more >>

Hi everyone. I'm having a problem on IIS 5.0 (on W2k +Sp4) When accessing CERTAIN .asp I get the following error, after being prompted for a User/Pass (none of which I've tried worked though!): "HTTP 401.4 - Unauthorized: Authorization denied by filter" followed by "The Web server has a filter...more >>

We are using IIS 5.0 along with weblogic 8.x application servers. We have configured iisprox.dll in IIS to proxy requests from the web server to the weblogic application server. Recently we observed that under load, the webserver spawned too many dllhost processes (30-40 in number) and eve...more >>

We have a Windows 2000 Domain Controller and its running our website with IIS. What we want to do is demote the DC, and just make it a regular member server. BUT, are there any IIS settings that will change because the server IIS is running on will no longer be a domain controller? Ar...more >>

Hi, We are experiencing a problem where IIS 5/6 fails to deliver the latest version of a css file. It only happens to CSS files and not to other files such as jpg, gif etc. Our application is modifying the css and I can open it using notepad and see that the changes are there. When accessin...more >>

This may not sound like an IIS problem at first but bear with me. I recently moved from an IIS 5.0 running Frontpage Server Extensions 2000 to running IIS 6.0 without the extensions and just creating Frontpage webs as virtual directories and mapping network drives to the content. Since the...more >>

Hi, We are running IIS 6.0 on a decent spec server and cannot understand why some simple ASP pages are taking so long to load. The site doesn't appear to have a massive amount of users viewing it at peak times ( <500) but sometimes simple ASP pages (just a single response.write line) can ta...more >>

Hi all, I have a windows 2000 server which was hosting our intranet, all was running fine until I installed WSUS and now when I try to access the intranet I get the 403 access denied error. Can anybody help resolve this please? I have checked the settings and it says it is still allowing ano...more >>

Hi ! I have a server currently running apache 1.3 but I heard about the IIS web server, and I would like to try it in order to compare. The problem is that the distribution I'm using (Debian 3.1) doesn't include that package for some reason. Any idea where I could download this program ? Goog...more >>

WHAT IS THE KEY TO THE DIRECTORY SERVICES TAB FOR IP RESTRICTIONS USING ADSUTIL.VBS OR METABASE EXPLORER? ...more >>

Hi, I plan to build a loadbalaced website with IIS under Windows 2000 and I guesS I'm not the first man in the world to do this ... What is the best way to keep the contents of the wwwroot of the servers in synch? Any recommendations for tools to do the job apart from a scheduled XCOPY? ...more >>

Has anyone ever used Bugzilla with IIS? I'm trying to install bugzilla-2.18.1 and I've got the installation done but IIS can't seem to load up the index.cgi file. Perl is installed, all works well from the command line but when I open it in a browser I get a 404. Any ideas? -brian ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to solve a problem with my intranet WebServer The Administrator configured a dns entry assigned to the IP address of the webserver so people can remember it easilly instead of the server name. Then, he configured host headers for the site but when a I request an asp page I get t...more >>

Hello, We have Integrated Windows authentication turned on for a directory on our web server. The problem that I am experiencing is the when someone goes to a page in that directory, an NT Login box opens and they are forced to enter their login, password and domain 3 times before the authent...more >>

Hi I am getting the above error everytime I try to access my WebDAV folder. Once the error appears, on the server, I cannot even open the IIS MMC snap in unless I stop and start IIS. I have Exchange 2003 also running on the server, and it is a DC. WebDAV used to work for a while but now i...more >>

Can I get the username of the logged in user for use in my ASP code? If so, how? Austin...more >>

I have a webpage where we removed anonymous access. I did this so that the server variable REMOTE_USER will return the NT logon account name in my ASP code. such as in Response.write Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_USER") Problem is, when they got to this page they have to logon into the pop...more >>

I have installed IIS. However, when I attempt to go to the localhost (i.e., http://localhost/default) Internet Explorer does not respond for several minutes and shows "Done" with no page loaded. After several minutes I receive "The page cannot be displayed" with suggestions about checking Inte...more >>

We've got one IIS server in our small network. Customers access it from the outside (www & ftp). We have one AD domain. I've heard that it's a security risk for the IIS server to be a domain member. 1) How true is that? (I wonder because for example, MS markets SBS to be both a web serv...more >>

It seems IIS is not allowing us to host .7z files (displays a 404) - is there something I need to enable them? ...more >>

I can't find the IIS Metabase key to change the IP restrictions via ADSUTIL.VBS. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Bryan...more >>

I've been having this problems on several PC's running IIS V5.1. When I install IIS and setup a virtual directoy and then view it in the browser: http://PCNAME/intranet/default.asp I ALWAYS get "You are not authorized to view this page" and an event 534: The user has not been granted the r...more >>

hi; i've wrriten an asp.net applation that look like a filesystem, treeview and browsing what i'm asking is how can I improve my app so when i open a windows application (like word) "Open File Dialog" i can rich my web app and see my file system application (like sharepoint do ) i appreci...more >>

Hi to everybody, I have installed IIS 5.0 on a Win 2k Pro PC. When I type localhost on IE the page can't be displayed message appears. If I try 127.0.0.1 it ask me for user name, password and domain. 1. IIS is running (Sevice works). 2. I can ping 127.0.0.1 3. In the hosts file 127.0.0.1 loc...more >>

Hi, In each http response, my IIS 5.0 server returns a wrong "Date" header. The hosting OS the server is running on has proper time in GMT. However IIS keeps on sending back a "Date" header that is said to be GMT but that is actually GMT-1. For instance: OS time is: 9:00am GMT "Date" h...more >>

Hi, I have IIS5 running on port 80 inside a firewall but the port number is mapped so that it appears from outside to be on port 8000 if the user outside the firewall submits the url http://myserver:8000/webapp/ everthing works fine, but if they miss off the trailing slash: ...more >>

I am looking a writing a vbscript that monitors the iis6 web server internally for excessive load . I wand to show a page if the load on webserver gets above a certain percent. Does anyone know what I should be monitoring Regards Don Grover ...more >>

Hello all. This isn't quite the same problem that others have been reporting and I'm a bit puzzled. It's only started happening recently too and I'm not aware that I've installed anything to cause it... We have an asp page on the server that has a mapping application (Caliper's Maptitude) ...more >>

Hi, this is Pierre Tramo from Las Vegas !! I am running a Win2k box with IIS 5 to host about 100 websites. But that computer is kinda old, so we bought a new one, and I need to move thoses websites to the new box. The problem is that I'm not really a Windows user, and I don't like repetitive t...more >>

Hi I have read a couple of articles on multiple headers but still have a couple of questions. At the moment, my first and only site is in wwwroot directory and there is an index.htm which is the default file. If I set up a second site and put all the pages in the same wwwroot directo...more >>

Howdy, My web host (www.ihost.biz) just upgraded their control panel and the IIS management is awesome. Just wanted to let you guys know in case you were looking for a Windows based web host - you should definitely check it out! There are some screen shots on their home page but you really...more >>

Hello i am on windows 2003 server and i have been testing and using the kernel mode cache for some time now in http.sys. It used to be that the algorithm would only let items in the cache if the same url was requested within 10 seconds and it would only be flushed if the same url was then not...more >>

We are experiencing an issue with the Content Disposition header, IE 6.0 SP2 on Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 running IIS 6. We have recently upgraded our servers to Windows Server 2003, which broke our applications because of this issue. These are primarily intranet applications, and ...more >>

Hi Is save my log files daily. Is there a way that I can run analog on all of these files and not just one file at a time. I want to see the result for a week, but still capture log files daily. Thanks ...more >>

I set up the virtual directory per the KB article 555071. I can change the password by accessing the site via: HTTPS://<servername>/iisadmpwd/aexp2.asp. However, when I try to change the password through OWA the response is "Error: Object required" The environment is Exchange Server 2003 an...more >>

I've got Windows 2003 standard running IIS 6.0. I've set up Isolated users FTP (not dependant on AD). When I install a second NIC in the server and configure it with my public IP (static), FTP work perfectly. However, I want a firewall in between the internet and my Internal network, so I...more >>

Server is Win 2000 SP4 with IIS 5 AuthentiX v 5.3 We have a valid SSL certificate from VeriSign The AuthentiX protected directory is E:\W\X\Y\ using an ODBC database and select statement. The protection method is Basic Authentication (not cookies) with a single realm. The directory security...more >>

Im new to IIS, so excuse my ignorance but can anyone provide me with a little information to a problem i have. The problem is that i am running a website internally within the company but want to make it available over the internet. I have a IP address (i.e. 25.25.25.1) provided by the ISP an...more >>

Hi. I need some help with a specific webserver having CPU usage of 100% at times. The server is running Windows 2003 server, having 2 Intel Xeon 3.4GHz processors and the problem is that lately the server needs to be rebooted more and more often caused by CPU usage of 100% on the webserver ...more >>

We run Windows XP pro with IIS 5.1. We have always been able to access our default web site via either localhost or the router's IP address. Now, all of a sudden, I get nothing with the IP address, but the localhost still works. I can ping the IP address. I can telnet the IP address. I just c...more >>

Hello, We're experiencing some problems with SMS communication with the Management Point Website. I'm posting here because it appears to be BITS related. We're getting some DataTransferService.log errors :Status : ERROR (0x80200013) which just appears to be a "cannot find server" type error. ...more >>