Dear All, We are from a webhosting company and we are using IIS 6.0 with Plesk control panel. Here is the issue is that, In all the website's property we found that the Application pool : has been filled with an error called <Invalid Application Pool> (under Execute permissions in Home tab)...more >>

Hello all, I'm having an odd issue with IIS 5.0 and I'm hoping some one can help. The site is an intranet and if user go to it with the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), the site does not respond. You can watch the request come into the server, but the user never gets a response back. If y...more >>

I have a small number of websites on my IIS6 web server, each website using their own IP address configured on a teamed NIC interface (ie for all intents and purposes one "virtual" NIC). I use a hardware load balancer in my infrastructure which is configured to monitor website availability by ...more >>

IIS5.1 giving "Class does not exists" when running the ASP page. IIS is running on window XP SP1. It is giving "Class does not exists" when putting http://localhost. I am confused. It has been working good and from last couple of months, It started giving this problem. I am not able to run ...more >>

Hello Experts, I am running Windows 2003 Server and IIS. I have a static IP which points to a default website on the server. The problem is that I can not access the site from the server when I use localhost, 127.0.0.1, or the static IP. It returns the message: "Bad Request (Invalid Host...more >>

Hi - I use directory listing on an IIS machine - where can I edit the template for the directory listing page that gets produced? ie - so I can change some of the HTML on it (eg background colour, etc)? Many thanks. ...more >>

I've been having this problem with the MSNbot for several months. Most requests that it sneds end up with IIS sending back a 406 error. I've read that a 406 is usually caused by the request headers missing an accept-type header. Is there anything I can do on IIS v5 (Win2K) to correct this ...more >>

Hi all -- I was wondering if anyone had a link or material on IIS 6.0 performance with regard to the amount of users hitting web pages, CPu speed, etc. Basically, I'm looking for if you have 100 users hitting your site, your server should have at leave ? MB per user, and so and so CPU for ...more >>

I am trying to run an application, that worked fine on W2000 /IIS 5.0, on Windows 2003/ IIS 6.0. I am trying to use IIS compatibility mode. When I set the application to High Protection, I get the following error: "COM+ was unable to talk to the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinat...more >>

I have a webservice that is set up with IIS 6.0 that runs fine. I have been wanting to run another application on my machine that needs the user of port 80, so I have tried messing around with httpcfg to try to remedy the problem of IIS binding to all port 80's on my machine. Httpcfg see...more >>

I have a user posting to a page. They are going fine, even posting on the page. At a particular point, they click a button to do a post and the browser just hangs. When I look in the W3SVC1 log file, I see: 2005-07-28 14:28:52 10.28.98.130 POST /GPCStoreFront/WebForms/PartInquiry....more >>

We have a Windows 2003 server with .php and MySQL installed. I can run the test of .php (ex. http://www.eventsportraits.com/info.php) and receive the desired output. However, I cannot process any file outside the wwwroot directory. I created a simple file 'helloworld.php' and it works if th...more >>

Any help on this issue. I could not run script debugger in xp. ...more >>

What are some easy ways to get IIS 5 programs run on a box with IIS 6?...more >>

For the past two days we have had intermittent issues with our IIS5 servers. From all the symptoms we are seeing, it appears that the Oracle ODBC connections are not closing correctly and eventually draining the resources for IIS5. If we reboot the server or restart WWW services, the problem...more >>

Hi! I am developing a solution where clients upload files to a server by using Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). As long as the files I upload are small, everything works fine. But when I try to upload a 4GB file I receive an error message indication that there is no more disk ...more >>

I have noticed that there is very litle information around on the BITS framework, the BackgroundTransfer NewsGroup seams almost dead and I can't find very much anywhere else on the net. - Is BITS somethign Microsoft see as as an internal service? - Do Microsft encourage 3:ed party solution...more >>

My production ASP.NET site is running on Win 2000 and IIS 5. I'd like to migrate this to Win 2003 and IIS 6. I also have 2 QA web servers, and Build server and each developer has a web server all running Win 2000 and IIS5. My question is can I keep my developers and Build box running Win 20...more >>

I have a web site with SSL enabled in Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 server. I would like to access my server using "www.myserver.com" from my browser. It should automatically redirect to my actual web site "https://www.myserver.com" I can see many MS documents only related to Exchange OWA (Virtual Di...more >>

Hi, I'm running Windows 2003 Server SP1 with ISA 2004 SP1. The problem I'm seeing is as I browse round one of our websites, every now and then the requests seem to get lost or never makes it to IIS. The error I get is this: "The page cannot be displayed Error Code: 500 Internal Server...more >>

Hi, Lately, my IIS server stop responding and i noticed that the DLLHOST is leaking memory. Especially on the virtual memory, usually i see about 100Mbytes, but when the problem occur, it takes up to 2Gbytes of Virtual Mem. Please advise how do i nail down this problem ? Thanks. Teren...more >>

If I open up the /fpdb folder live in FrontPage, I notice the MSAccess ldb files for all mdb databases there don't disappear unless I delete them manually using FrontPage. This behavior was not occurring in IIS5, I have only noticed it since our webhost upgraded to IIS6. Theoretically it doesn...more >>

Hi All, Got the job of fixing our intranet after another admin moved it accross from IIS5 to IIS6. Fixed most problems except for the file upload. can browse for the file from the webpage but when clicking upload we are faced with the error '006~ASP 0177~Server.CreateObject Failed~800401f3' ...more >>

Since our webhost (www.usbusinesweb.net) upgraded from IIS5 to IIS6, we are losing session variables intermittently on our shopping cart page -- namely the amounts. The page is http://www.orbisoft.com/products/taskmanager/2005/purchase/select-version.aspx. Sometimes it does, sometimes it does...more >>

Hi, i am not sure if this is the right group to post this question. I have to write a asp/aspx page to test the speed of our intranet. Can any one give me some ideas on how i can go about it....more >>

Hey all, I'm developing an ASP.NET app and have loaded Windows XP SP2 and installed IIS 5.1 on it. I loaded my app onto the computer and fired it up in IE, but when I get to a certain point in the app, I get an HTTP 500 error. Now I know about the log files in the W3SVC folder, but the lo...more >>

Hi, How could I monitor IIS AppPool from the ASP.NET web service which is hosted in that same AppPool ? I guess I could use WMI but I've not played around with it. Is there an example code in ASP.NET for this need ? My problem is Application_End is not being fired and so I want to trap when...more >>

We are having a problem where our server starts to lockup. The only problems we can see is that the w3wp.exe is taking up about half of the memory on the server. I have been watching the Servers Performance and noticed that the Session Duration jumps to about 3,000,000+ milliseconds but as far...more >>

Hi all: This has probably been covered ad nauseum, but is there a good article that describes how to back up IIS 5.0 and restore it to a DIFFERENT server? All the articles I find are about backing up the Metabase and that it cannot be used if the server is rebuilt. Thanks in advance! ...more >>

I have a problem setting up IIS 6 on my Windows XP machine. The Session ID has a new value each time the page posts back to my ASP.NET form. When I run this form on my PC at work, it works fine. I have duplicated all the IIS properties for web sites/default web site/appl_folder so tha...more >>

My webserver is running W2k3 (without SP1) and IIS6. We have some files that are more than 50mb and each time someone is trying to download them they get "the connection was reset by the server". I think this is a timeout parameter that does it and I dont know which one. 1, is there a way to ch...more >>

Hi, Could anyone tell me what a SC_Status of 500 means? This field is from the IIS log file. Thanks in advance. J...more >>

About 3 weeks ago all my IIS services and exchange services terminated with event ID 7031. This now happens about once a week. I have Win2k and Exchange2k with all the latest service packs, patches, and roll ups. My inetinfo.exe is constantly running at about 100,000k-120,000k in my task ...more >>

I am having problems with IIS and running another application on trying to bind to port 80. I have IIS running as a web service that uses all available IP's on port 80. Obviously when I run my other application I get an error that the port is already in use (i.e. error 10048: port already in...more >>

Hi, I am hoping you can help me with and "interesting" issue. My company has recently had a security audity. As a result of the audit we were found to have 2 very prevelant vulnerabilities. I have been tasked with finding out the rmaifications of these for IIS and HIS. I am hoping you can ...more >>

I am trying to migrate a IIS4 site to IIS6. The tool is running from the IIS6 server and i am getting a "RPC Server not available" error msg. I have verified that IPC is working. What other "things" can i verify for this to work? tx in advance Asela.P...more >>

I've already posted this in the VS.net group, but no answer. I've got several ASP 3.0 webprojects on a webserver running Win Srv 2003 and IIS 6.0. I would like to "upgrade" them to asp.net projects. Whenever I use VS.NET 2003 to create a new webproject on LOCALHOST, I can define the locat...more >>

What is the role of Internet Information Services in Windows XP...more >>

Is it possible to configure IIS 5 so that when a request is made for http://www.foo.com/bar it returns the file bar.html instead of looking for a folder called bar and generating a 404? I'm migrating a client over from another server that allows this, and they've done a lot of print advert...more >>

Where do I put a DLL's PDB so that DebugDiag can find it? I placed it in the same directory as the DLL, but DebugDiag still could not find it. Also, can VC++ 6.0 create a PDB that DebugDiag can read? ...more >>

Server Configuration: Windows 2003 / IIS 6.0 / FPSE 2002 I keep getting the following event logged multiple times every hour on the hour and it is filling up my logs. This is a relatively new development and can not specifically attribute it to anything in particular. I have verified al...more >>

Hi there, After a server rebuild I got all my sites setup in IIS on my local network, but not connected to the internet. As I was setting them up, I was testing them. Each worked fine. I have since installed IIS Lockdown and URLScan, and have assigned each websites its host headers. Now the def...more >>

I have an IIS6 running on a Win2k3 standard edition server. when attempting to download a 60mb file I get an error. "internet explorer cannot download file.ext from www.mysite.com the connection with the server was reset" I have searched and checked all network devices on the way(ISP/Router+Fi...more >>

I have a dedicated worker process for a site that is crashing regularly and managed to capture the crash data. I would appreciate it if anyone can look at the crash log and provide us with some info on what is causing the crash. Thanks in advance. Regards, Chin Opened log file 'C:\iis...more >>

This problem probably has an easy solution that I'm somehow overlooking, but I've been trying to figure out how to allow users to do more than one thing on my website at once. What I mean is this: User A logs into the website, and chooses to download and save a file from the site. While t...more >>

I have an ASP.NET application that passes data in a session variable. IIS is running on my localhost. When I run this on my PC at work, the session variable is recovered just fine. When I run this on my PC at home, it is not. I have duplicated all the IIS properties for web sites/d...more >>

For some reason I cannot set up the FTP accounts for developers. I created the account in AD, made sure they are not set up for email and such, added them to groups with Full Control permissions on the folders they need access to, they cannot seem to be able to create files, delete, etc... ...more >>

It seems this new feature in w2k3sp1 allows for writing log files on 1 IIS 6.0 server to 1 location, can it write log files from MS Network Load Balanced servers to a single network location? Thanks, Dan Foxley ...more >>

Running IIS4, straight html files and using include files with .shtml. Using the browser to bring up the html, the include files do not show. According to help we need to toggle include files on as the admin of the IIS server. We thought in IIS - application configuration/ app mappings .sht...more >>

I have several domains. The primary works fine with subdirectories. http://www.blah.com/education/ goes to the right page. http://blah.com/education/ goes to the main directory and changes the url to http://www.blah.com/. This happens to all the domains I've added to the Advanced Multiple Web...more >>