I have a number of sites that all have an Admin hostname (subdomain) and all point to the same directory; once they get there, the rest of the domain name tells me who they are, etc. I would like to simply add each new site to the existing serverbindings for a collective AdministrativeScrip...more >>

I have a new server running Windows 2003 Server and IIS 6. There are two active websites on the server. With the frequency of approximately once every 20 or so hours the sites become inaccessible. The are no errors in the Windows event log or in the IIS log files. But if I visit one of th...more >>

Hello, I've got a aspnet web app which has its own login screen. I recently moved it to a new server 2003 box. Now, when I try to access the web app, I get a windows logon dialog first. If I use my machine userid/password in this dialog it goes into the web app fine. I've got anonymous acces...more >>

Hi I am looking to host several sites on 1 ip. The ftp is all working correctly for each site when the correct user name and password are entered. What i would like to do is enable anonymous access to a directory for each site. I know this can be done as several frontend hosting packages ...more >>

Hi Folks, I would like to know the main reason why IIS has this SNMP counters: totalBytesSentHighWord The high 32-bits of the total number of bytes sent by the FTP server. totalBytesSentLowWord The low 32-bits of the total number of bytes sent by the FTP server. What is the main ...more >>

Beginners question really. With a web farm (Win2003), how does the load balancing across the cluster work? Specifically, is it possible to always process the web request on the box that is currently got the lowest CPU activity (or shortest CPU thread queue), or is it purely round-robbin?...more >>

How do I create a new internal website to use only on my local network. Like http://companweb, but I want it to have it's own site name, eg. http://<sitename>/. Thanks, Jake...more >>

Hi folks, Server is 2000 running .NET Framework 1.1 with about 100 websites, 25-50 of them .NET Applications. People are complaining of dropped sessions when the aspnet_wp.exe process restarts itself around 600mb of memory. Which is what I have it set to in the machine.config. One site alway...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to have aspnet_isapi.dll handle all requests for a virtual directory. I have set up my web.config file and created the wildcard mapping in IIS. However, all requests result in an IIS error of 404-- even pages that exist. Nothing appears to be reaching the aspnet_isapi.d...more >>

I have a simple ISAPI rewrite rule that I need. I need this single address: http://www.myhost.com/campusNewsFeed.xml to redirect to: http://www.myhost.com/rssfeed.aspx I appreciate your taking the time to answer this. Thank you, -Jay ...more >>

I have been looking through the logs from a crash we had this morning, but I am not sure what I am looking for. Is there some documentation on the logs that are produced? g...more >>

Hi I would like to know if its possible to connect to a remote IIS server trough scripting Here is what I tried but I got the following error MSG iis.vbs(3, 1) (null): Invalid syntax Here is the Code strComputer = "s000wbt0021" Set objIIS = GetObject("IIS://" & strComputer & "/W3SVC") F...more >>

Hi, I've asked this issue recently in other groups but it seems like IIS6 is making URL substitution on special characters in IE6. What I mean is that the URL (example) http://www.mysite.com/new-folder is changed into http://www.mysite.com/new%2Dfolder Only when I ad the / ath the end of th...more >>

I have web application on IIS 5. Directory Security set to Integrated Autentication without Anonymous. I'm trying to connect to AD by: "LDAP://server.domain.com" and it works , but when i try to get Request.ServerVariables("AUTH_TYPE") or Request.ServerVariables("AUTH_USER") i get nothing w...more >>

Hello, In my company, we have a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6. The URL of a web site is: http://<server_name>/VPortal and runs on IIS. I would like to provide the ability to the user to use the address http://portal.<company-name>.com, which is simpler to remember. First, I declared in...more >>

Hello, I have a strange problem... I'm testing the IIS6 Recycle feature. It works but in s particular situtation it get a lot of time to restart. I try to explain. I used a particular asp.net page: it runs for a long time (20 seconds) looping through a while cycle: Dim tstart as Date...more >>

Hi! I have Windows 2000 Server SP4 with IIS FPE 2002 and .Net Framework 2.0. I receive these errors when accessing the root folder of www. Btw, I have copy INetpub to different drive and configure only the drive assignment on IIS homedirectory. What did I do wrong? Event Type: War...more >>

I have a client application that is attempting to send an email using SmtpClient. I have set the Host property to my mail host's smtp address. However, when I send i get the exception at the end of this thread. I have an live internet connection at the time of running this code. Any idea...more >>

For networking reasons I have just changed the name of my PC. Eventually I got the network working. Today I opened FrontPage and went to do some work on a web I am building and disaster. I cannot make any changes to any pages, I get the error: Server error: Cannot open file "c\inetpub\ww...more >>

If we use iisproxy/Win2000 to upload the files of any size to the server it works , but if we use iisproxy on Win2003 with the exact same settings, we can upload only 25 KB size files. Larger files fail. Does any one know any extra configuration settings we need to do to get it w...more >>

I am trying to develop an ISAPI filter to run before stsfltr on a sharepoint portal server. I am basically trying to capture the username and the url from the request but it appears that even with my custom filter higher in the ISAPI list stsfltr is called first. If a request is made for a doc...more >>

Is it possible that if someone knows a sub directory on a website, that they can use a utility to find the names of files in that directory? We have a directory that stores .txt data files. If there are no direct links on any of the pages to the files (asp and asp.net -> the links are created ...more >>

Good afternoon. Apologies if this has been asked, but I did not find it via search. I am brand new to 2003 and IIS6. I need to programmatically manage my IIS and DNS. I have figured out everything that I need for creating a web site and the DNS except for two seemingly simple things, but I ...more >>

We recently upgraded from .Net 1.1 to .Net 2.0 and applied SP 1 to all of our Windows 2003 servers. Whenever we try to send email through our website we receive the following error: Cannot get IIS pickup directory. We narrowed it down to a configured error either in IIS or the SMTP service . A...more >>

hi all, i can't start the www-publishing service. symptoms are the same as described in Q327649: eventlog: Event ID: 7023 Source: Service Control Manager The World Wide Web Publishing Service service terminated with the following error: Not enough resources are available to complete thi...more >>

We are currently running IIS 6 with .Net 2.0. Ever since we have deployed to our Test server, we are getting prompted twice for authentication. It does not happen when working on ASP.NET Development Server (visual studio embedded .net dev server) on my desktop. Does anyone know why this is ha...more >>

I'm using IIS on Windows XP which allows me to only have one Web site. How can I configure the Default Web Site to redirect to one of the applications I have configured in IIS? So if I type http://127.0.0.1 it will go to the app I want? Is it just a matter of setting the 'Local Path' unde...more >>

Hi all, My program execute an upload througth IIS Ftp server. In the case that my upload failed (for example if I sconnected ethernet cable), IIS process looked my file. How is it possible to prevent this problem without restart ftp server ? Thanks .. STe...more >>

Hi, I would like to know how to change the application protection to high-isolated in IIS 5 from VBS or BAT file Thank oyu Oren ...more >>

I have IIS server installed on XP-pro. I also have Norton Internet Security installed. I can run simple ASP programs without any problem. But when I use forms with post method and call an asp in action, it does not pass any data to ASP. Request.Form method on a form field does not return an...more >>

Hi guys, My collegue found a worm on our webserver (IIS5) and i remove the worm. Now www service hangs one a day. I can't see anything strange in any logs. Any adeas how to correct this?...more >>

Hi all, I've a problem with the account IWAM_<my computer>. A couple of months ago i installed on my WinXP the IIS 5 to play with asp. After that, I enabled the Guest Account for other reasons, and now I can't turn on the IIS anymore. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall IIS server, and i've fo...more >>

Hi all! I'm running a Windows 2000 Server machine with IIS. I have to compress all of my log files (many text files; about 500 MB in size per each). If I try to launch a ZIP compression the program causes a 100% CPU load. How can I do in order to have a less CPU load? Thanks in advance. Best...more >>

I am having an authentication failure, this may take a while so bear with me: IIS 6 on WS2003 installed as domain member. Default Web Site (ASP and .NET installed and authorized) Sharepoint 2 Services Exchange Front-End Server Certificate Server (Root Enterprise CA) Sharepoint A...more >>

In simple terms what are these application pools in IIS 6.0? Am I right in saying they are bacially websites in it's own worker process? So if one site goes down it doesn't take the others with it like in IIS 5.0...more >>

I usually manually backup the Metadata of our website. The backup is copies off the server from the C:\Windows\system32\Inetsvr\metaback to somewhere off the server. How can I automate this every day? I hate having to rely on a manual process. Thanks...more >>

I'm testing a new and empty IIS 6 site, with my ISAPI application. I created a new App Pool for the scripts directory and I notice that sometimes my dll is cached (and sometimes it's not). I ALWAYS want to cache the dll and the related files, so I tried setting the MaxCachedFileSize registry ...more >>

I have a clean installation of windows 2003 SBE and SQLServer2000, it has all hotfixes installed. I want to publish two web sites that are completely anonymous (www). Both sites are correctly configured for two different domains using virtualhosts and both work correctly for a certain pe...more >>

Hi, Is anyone aware of a quick and easy way to track banner click-through statistics with IIS 5? Any thoughts would be greately appreciated, AF...more >>

One user is having a problem logging on to our Intranet remotely. When he gets the network logon screen, he enters his user name and password, but immediately the IP address of the Intranet is placed before his user name in the logon box and it won't connect. He's using XP Home. Any ideas? ...more >>

Im trying to run iisweb.vbs from some workstations to create some sites. it brings up the error that it only runs with IIS6, which I am running on the server. It is valadting user and password before it brings up the error. Server 2003. fully patched. workstations xp pro. fully patch. Any...more >>

I've created a virtual directory that contains a file called "cics2.rsf" which I expect IE to prompt the users to download the file to their local hard drives (or open it). But, when I try to open that file in IE I continue to get a "Page Not Found" error ( http://localhost:5555/test/cics2...more >>

I have a 2003 Server running IIS 6 and have created a virtual directory. I want to use net use to create a local drive. The format I'm using is as follows: net use x: http://server ip address/sharefolder The server is running in a DMZ and I'm going through the firewall which has port ...more >>

When we originally set up the web server we used the default web site. Well just puchased a wild card SSL so that we can cover mulitple web sites. I am now trying to create another web site on the same server that is using the default and I am having no luck accessing that second site. Can any...more >>

I just changed my computer name when I deregistered myself from my company's domain, then re-registered back onto the domain. I am typed in a different computer name. Now my IIS doesn't work. IIS Admin won't start. I get the message: Windows could not start the IIS Admin on Local Computer....more >>

Hello, I'm currentrly trying to write a Active-X DLL that can be called in an ASP page and that sends then a message via Send-Message API to another program, that recieves it. Everything works fine when I call the Active-X dll in Visual Basic, but as soon as I call the DLL with ASP, my progra...more >>

I am writing ISAPI extension that works on specific files. If the file includes a text in it, I need to change the text, otherwise the file should not be changed. I have defined the ISAPI extension on the IIS, and in the code I have the following call: url_length = lstrlen (url); pCtx...more >>

Hi Guys I have just installed IIS on a clean Win2003 SRV SP1 - and it's working for me. The problem is that I cannot reach http://server/. The error displayed is this is "HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials". It would seem that the problem has ...more >>

I've been trying to find a solution to this all day, without success. I've got a dedicated server, running Windows 2003 Web Edition, together with Plesk installed. Now, all the sites I create (I initially created 5, but deleted them all and have just the one now - but the problem has been ...more >>

Has anyone ever heard of the C:\Windows\Temp folder disappearing everytime IIS restarts or the server restarts? We have this situation actually occurring! -- Spin ...more >>