Dear All, I am facing a problem with IIS server 5.1. Whenever i try to browse the default Web site on my IIS server or browse http://localhost....i get this error-->HTTP 500 -Internal Server Error-> "Server Application Error The server has encountered an error while loading an application d...more >>

I hope this is a right group... I am running FrontPage that is using IIS 5.1 and I installed Apache 2 to run PHP (so I can migrate e-commerce web sites from FP). Both are competing for port 80; how can I set it up so one of them would use another port?? I would like to have the ability to run...more >>

I am working on Win2K Pro & use IIS5.0 to run ASP & ASPX intranet apps. To begin with, let me first honestly confess that though I have been using IIS5.0 since a long time, my knowledge on IIS is highly limited. I want to create an ASPX application using which when a new user registers, a fo...more >>

Hello, I'm learning ASP.NET, and so i tryied to configure the iis in my machine, to host the trainning applications. My computer is running Windows Server 2003, and my IIS version is 6.0. The problem is that when browses a classic asp page, it works properly, instead when i browse any simple ...more >>

I do web development on an XP Pro machine so I run IIS 5.1 on it. I am setting up a new laptop and trying to do the same. After acepting all of the high priority updates from Windows Update my IIS suddenly started demanding a password and then failing whenever I went to an asp page. I tri...more >>

For the record, it's not only one site that is broken down, it's all of the sites. The internet browser I'm using currently is Mozilla Firefox. P.S. I'm new at this so I don't know what you meant by checking the default page (.htm or .html) ...more >>

I did the analysis tool of upgrading my Win XP Pro SP2 to Vista...and all is well except I didn't like the report that I would have to UNINSTALL Norton Internet Security and that I could NOT REINSTALL it after Vista was installed! So, I am wondering if I could get the benefit of downloading...more >>

Hi, My IIS Application Pools contain child applications that don't exist. That is to say, there *was* a directory in a website that had an IIS Application Scope applied to it, but the directory was deleted by the MSFTPSVC service, yet the Application is still listed under its parent appl...more >>

My System event-log is littered with Warning messages from MSFTPSVC about users with incorrectly typed passwords or session timeouts. This seems awfully unnecessary, and what is it doing under "System" anyway? When I'm hunting for errors relating to system stability I don't want to be told ...more >>

I can run an asp.net web site without debugging, but not with debugging. It fails with the following error: Unable to start debugging on web server. Operation timed out. I am running IIS on Windows XP Sp2. The IIS error log contains: #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1 ...more >>

I have a situation where on the inside of my network, I have 2 different computers. These computers host different web sites. However, I can only direct port 80 to one of the computer. If the router can split it out based on the web site, I have not found the way to do this. I'm using a Li...more >>

This is a new installed server Win2k3 and I am trying to install IIS on it and I get this error. Event Type: Error Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 1005 Date: 12/28/2006 Time: 1:55:13 PM User: N/A Computer: OMNIIIS Description: The World Wide Web Publishing Se...more >>

Problem with inetinfo process and event id 7034 MS outlines the problem as being fixed with patch in this article. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=827214 However, I installed this patch over a year ago and continue to get this error. I am using SBS 2003 Std as an exchange se...more >>

I've been reading for two hours other people's threads but none is helping, please help! We have a secure site, it was using a self-issued certificate which expired in June.. so there's been this warning about it - now I need to get it fixed. Running Windows 2003 SP 1, IIS 6.0. When I logged i...more >>

When I try to access my Internet Explorer, it shows this : Under Construction The site you are trying to view does not currently have a default page. It may be in the process of being upgraded and configured. Please try this site again later. If you still experience the problem, try conta...more >>

I have an internal websited hosted on 192.168.0.7 on a windows 2000domain controller. The website works fine internally. I type inhttp://192.168.0.7/website and it shows no problem. Its configured in IIS as a virtual server under the default website, the default website is assigned this IP ad...more >>

Well, I had posted this issue in the Asp group, but I think that it suits better here. I started again wondering how to fix this problem, the thing is that we had an old extranet coded in ASP, and now we have to add another extranet in ASP.NET. The problem is that they demand me to let the l...more >>

Our webmaster has quit and I have a webserver running Server 2003 web edition and IIS 6.0 that is in danger of crashing. IIS Resources Tool Kit was installed on the C:\ and the logs have taken over the drive space. I have very little drive space remaining and I'm getting warnings about it. ...more >>

I am doing performance testing on my website on IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003 where 20 users are hitting site at same time at same functionality It runs successfully for 15-17 users and then gives SQL timeout in SP's for remaining users. Please suggest. Same site when running on IIS 5.0 on Windows...more >>

I got the analysis report from the IIS applicationpool crash dump file by using Debug Diagnotics tool. But I still can not figure out what is the problem with our ISAPI application. I appreciate if anyone can help to analyze what cause the crash happen. Here are some of the report: The first...more >>

I found a directory that does not have a name. I know it is not a directory that is suppose to be there and when I try to change it via windows explorer, it it can not read teh file How can I rename this folder or delete? ...more >>

Hi there, I am having problem to display asp page in win2003 sp1, it give me the http 500 error, the asp is allowed on the server under IIS/web extension. Displaying html page is fine. On another win2003(w/o sp1) server, asp display is fine. Could it be sp1 problem? Any help is apprecia...more >>

Hi, I am installing my development stuff on a brand new windows xp media center machine. I have a strange problem with IIS, it refuses to run any aspx page, bombs out with 500 Internal error: I have found the following error in the Event viewer: Event ID 36 'The server failed to load app...more >>

Is there a way to tell if IIS is installed on my XPpro PC? If not is it a purchased separately item? I have Visual Studio Standard 2003 Edition and Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition x86. Thanks! Dav ...more >>

Here is how everything is setup. The IIS machine is W2k3 Server Std. Ed 32bit with all the latest updates. This machine is connected to the only domain that we have. A 2nd machine (used for storing the log files and importing them into a DB) is on the same domain, and it is a Win2k3 Server ...more >>

I am a web developer and I would like to setup IIS to do this: 1. My physical structure: d:/www/company1 d:/www/company2 ... d:/www/companyN Each folder is a website for that company 2. On my local system, I would like to access to a company's website as: ...more >>

Hi, I decided to completely move my site (currently on IIS) to a new server (Apache) and a new domain (and structure). i.e. complete change except the majority of contents. I want to save my most important incoming links and redirect them to the new appropriate page as they bring some traf...more >>

I am using the W3C log format on IIS6 (Windows 2003 Std. SP1) set to rollover using the local time. I am in the eastern time zone, so we are currently 5 hours behind GMT. The header at the beginning of the logfiles has a date line like the following: #Date: 2006-12-22 05:00:00 The pr...more >>

Running InetInfo.exe 5.1 on XP Pro. I've just created a named pipe in a process that I've spawned from inside IIS isapi extension. Now I'm trying to connect to it with CreateFile(). hPipe = CreateFile( PipeName, // pipe name GENERIC_READ | // read and write acce...more >>

hi, a few other users on the internet, myself included, have noticed that FireFox is desperately slow to display web pages on a IIS 7 server (vista ultimate in my case). the same page loads lightning fast in IE7 but many tests have shown me that firefox takes about 10 times longer to load th...more >>

How to logout users that were authenticated using IIS Basic Authentication? This link has a solution that is browser independent, it works great I'm using the idea. http://nanodocumet.homedns.org/rest/ Just posting this so others can find it, it took me a while to find it. -khaled ...more >>

Hello: I am moving from IIS 5 to 6 which is on a different server. I need to move over my sites and also all my certificates. I know when I move the certs I have to get both the public and private keys. I have been searching for a TechNet article to cover this. Does anyone know the numb...more >>

Hello, I have 2 things I need to run on port 443, Outlook web access, and a secured web application. I have a PIX 501 firewall, and Small business server with IIS 6.0. Can IIS forward the weblink to our tomcat server, and use OWA itself? How would I go about this? Thanks ...more >>

Right here goes. I have serveral Sites made in Visual Studio 2005 that have Crystal Reports on them. These are simple reports that just ask a user for one parameter then display the report. On friday when accessing the sites from the local network or any other network it's starting askin...more >>

I have serveral website hosted in IIS. But when I use the log analyzer software to read the log files. I found that the IIS log files do not tell the bandwidth used by each website. So, how can I know this information. Because my data centre complaint me that our bandwidth used exceeds o...more >>

Hi, I want to store uploaded file in a directory C:\Inetpub\Users\Upload. c:\Inetpub is the home directory I have set, so it is pretty much HOME\Users\Upload. However, when I use following commands, the file is stored in c:\Users\Uoload. $upload_dir = "$HOME/Users/Upload"; $upload_filen...more >>

I had IIS 5 running an ASP.NET 2.0 app (webapp project not website, it also uses Windows auth) on localhost; all of a sudden it broke. My description is going to be sorta incoherent, sorry for that I hope there's still some hope :) Day 0. Everything works Day 1. It works ok and then it brok...more >>

The IIS 6 documentation says as follows: "IIS 6.0 includes support for Unicode and UTF-8 for file names and URLs. ASP can now deal with any file name using the Unicode filename string. Incoming UTF-8 URLs are converted to a Unicode representation and presented to ASP." (http://msdn.micros...more >>

My IIS server hanged almost everyday since November and have run IISState but don't know how to interprete the log file ... please help below are the log date -------------------------------------------------------------- Opened log file 'C:\iisstate\output\IISState-4176.log' **************...more >>

Hi all, There is an application on our intranet which we are trying to give remote users access to. I've programmed a CAPTCHA ASP.NET app which the remote users see when they type in webapp.ourdomain.com. I don't know how to forward them to the application on the intranet after they've gotten...more >>

Hi Can the iis*.vbs series of files be used with XP Pro ? If so, which, what, where would I download and install. Pete (Northolt UK) ...more >>

Is there a way to get a hardcopy printing out web site settings in IIS? Other than taking screen shots of every setting?! Jim...more >>

Hi , in my webserver often i found tis error : Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 1011 Date: 19/12/2006 Time: 15.22.46 User: N/A Computer: server01 Description: A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' suffered a fatal communication ...more >>

When setting session timeouts, it appears you can set it in IIS at the application level, or you can add it to the web.config file. Which trumps the other? From what we can tell, IIS trumps, but I am trying to find confirmation of that. -Darrel ...more >>

Why is it that I can browse a server by name: server1/exchange with no problems and no authentication dialogue boxes...but as soon as I try FQDN: server1.domain.com/exchange, I get an authentication box. Which doesnt work but still, how can I get the same functionality for both. I'd like int...more >>

I have seen a lot of people having problems with this particular event. I get a couple of these event 51228 source IIS Config which has the following description. An error occurred while saving the metabase file. This can happen when the metabase XML file is in use by another program, or if ...more >>

I have an external IBM HTTP server sitting in my DMZ which routes traffic to my internal websphere application server. I now have to introduce IIS into the topology. I would like to treat the IIS server like the websphere application server and secure it inside the firewall. I will need a ...more >>

I moved my environment from windows2000 to Windows 2003. Now when I fetch data more than 1000 records then I see 20-40% performance degradation as comapre to when I was in windows2000 I tried lot of things, couldn't figure out anything in IIS. Please let me know what could be the reason Its...more >>

Hello all I'm looking for a way to restart Component Services - because in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 I want to automatically execute a command or a script when a COM object is locked. Please advise. Thanks. Jean-Pierre ...more >>

1) Under the DEFAULT setting for ISS 5.0, what infomation is logged? 2) Can someone provide me with an list of all events that will trigger the ISS 5.0 logging and result in an entry created in the log file? 3) What are the limitations of ISS 5.0? 4) What events are not logged by ISS 5.0? 5) ...more >>