Hi, i've set up an IIS6 plus awstats. Everything is working fine, except for Geoip country location. Awstats shows in "countries list" some known domains, like cz, it, etc. but there are many of them simply unknown, like "9s", "ip", "ww". Is it a problem of IIS and how it logs or the cause sho...more >>

Hi, I'm using a web page (asp) to display all users from my Active Directory with their phone number. I allow them to modify some informations (a sample code is shown at the end of the message). In order to make the code working I have to change the anonymous identify of the web server to a...more >>

Hello. I am looking into bandwidth throttling, and notice from the performance counters that it seems to keep the requests in a queue until there is bandwidth available. I also notice that there is a counter for Rejected requests. I am wondering what causes a request to become rejected rather t...more >>

Hi, I am being akes to investigate a new feature in IIS 6.0 called Session Replication. I cannot seem to find much information on this feature. Does anybody have any experience and/or knowledge on how good this is? Thanks Jan Tenenberg ...more >>

Hi all, I have seen MANY postings for this but no solutions. I have XP Pro, Service Pack 2 and I am trying to install IIS from the "Add remove Windows components" section of "Add Remove Programs". It gets to "Completing configuratioin of SMTP Service..." and hangs. It doesnt freeze my com...more >>

We are using Forms authentication in a webapp (ASP.net 1.1 VB, IIS6 on W2003) we created to maintain information on the currently logged-in user and their capabilities. After logging in, the user can click through a few pages, but if they take a break (sometimes 10 seconds, sometimes it takes...more >>

I have been trying to get IIS to install and it appears to be working but when I try to start IIS it won't start. I got the following when I installed: Error writign encrypted data to the Web Sever's configureation database (Metabase). Had to hit RETRY 4 times to get the final "Successfu...more >>

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Hi NG, I've the problem, when I copy files (full directories) and there are hidden files the copy process stops at the hidden file (over WebDAV). Is there a work around or a hotfix available? Thanks Wolfgang Friesenecker ...more >>

Is there a way to use the multiple Certifications on the same machine but with different Domains? For example, we have 3 sites: a.com, b.com and c.com. At the moment, we have a cert for a.com. We can't use the same cert for b.com or c.com and would like to get certs for b.com and c.com...more >>

Does anyone know how to view or edit the hidden attributes in the IIS 6.0 metabase? Thanks. ...more >>

Why wouldn't I be able to run the create text file method of the file system object? The code works on the server, but not on my local server (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\). Here's some code: Dim objFSO Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") objFSO.CreateTextFile Set ...more >>

Thanks for any help! Opened log file 'C:\iisstate\output\IISState-7816.log' *********************** Starting new log output IISState version 3.3.1 Tue Feb 28 11:26:25 2006 OS = Windows 2003 Server Executable: w3wp.exe PID = 7816 Note: Thread times are formatted as HH:MM:SS.ms ...more >>

I have a Windows 2003 standalone server. I installed IIS and the FrontPage server extensions 2002. We transfered our web site by copying the files onto a thumb drive and put them on the server under the default web site. We thought we would like to use WebDav (unaware that you couldn not us...more >>

There is a metabase property in IIS6 that prevents clients from having to redownload content from a web server farm. Has anyone had any experience with this property? There doesnt seem be much out there on this property other than the following article. I have tried to add the property usin...more >>

Hi, I have a site that I want to use basic auth over SSL. I want a single login (I'm going to be the only user). The machine currently has a few user account already that I don't want to remove. How do I limit IIS to ONLY allow a single login to access the web (i.o.w. only this user ID will...more >>

Hi, I have a windows 2003 standard. The web site was migrated from 2000 server to 2003 using the iis migration tools. My webmaster told me that everything is working fine except asp pages. asp is enabled in iis 6.0 of course and tried enabling parent path. I know asp works cause if I tr...more >>

Hi, We are finding that, 2-3 times per day, our web server needs to be restarted as a result of the "dllhost.exe" process using 100% CPU. We would obviously like to get to the bottom of this problem, but are not sure of how to appropach this. Could someone provide any advice ? Many Thanks...more >>

Our Server has several app pools and they of course all show up in Task manager as w3wp.exe. Is there a way to match up each of these with their respective application pools? I know which pool "name" I want to attach a debugger to, but not sure which process id is associated with it. Thanks!...more >>

I am new at this. I have created a web site and it is visible to IE on my machine but not if I go to another machine. Local machines that ping the IP fine can not see the web server via DNS name or IP address, but it works fine on the local machine. How do I turn it on so the world can ...more >>

We have our extranet running under IIS6/Win2K3 Server. For each client, we create a virtual directory that points to their project folder on our file server. The URL of their extranet ends up as http://extranet.domain.com/client When we are coding out their websites, if we try to use the "/"...more >>

Hi I have a local server running with no problems, but when I added a new directory - off the home dir, IIS wont server any of the pages contained within it. The other files in other directories are fine Chris...more >>

for the past one week, i always have problem on some of my websites servers which "World Wide Web Publishing " and "IIS Admin" services disabled by itself. Those web servers are released to the public. ...more >>

Is there a way to migrate websites in IIS5/Windows 2000 Server to IIS6/Windows Server 2003? I've got a server with about 50 sites and I'm looking for an easier way to move these than copying each one and manually configuring IIS6 for each site. Thanks for any advice or pointers. Troy ...more >>

Hi Folks; I need some help with an issue I am trying to track down. I don't know much about programming so please forgive me if this is a newby-type question :) I have an on-line forum written in PHP. It's supposed to give out a cookie after someone logs in so that they don't have to log-in ...more >>

Is there (or will there be) support for Frontpage Server Extensions for IIS 7.0? I tried running the separate Frontpage Server Extensions 2002 setup with no luck (couldn't connect to the IIS server). This came up in installing Visual Studio 2003 under the February CTP of Vista....more >>

Are there any limits on the number of virtual webs for an IIS 6 server? I have a 4 way with 3.6 GHz processors and 3.5 GB of Ram and I need to host 13,000 virtual webs one of the web sites for this cluster. Thank you, Jacob Hahn ...more >>

Why would I get a 633 error "modem already in use by another program" with BlueLight and not with AOL? I recently bought a new PC and I loaded the free AOL software so I could get online to download the BlueLight software on the new PC. But when I tried to logon using BlueLight I got Error...more >>

I'm finally moving from NT to 2003. My 2003 AD box is setup and running. I believe I should set up a second AD box running AD for duplication / redundancy. BUT I also need to move web pages from my NT boxes. Should or / or is it bad / if I were to use my second AD 2003 box for web pa...more >>

Can I change the default IIS port 80? if so how do I do it?...more >>

Hello, We have a web server that we generally restrict access from logging in remotely via RDP. This server has an application that sometimes acts up and the only solution is to restart IIS. Because of the restriction of remote logins, there are only a few number of people that have the a...more >>

Hi, all I remember I can write an exe to do the new extension name mapping in IIS, instead of opening IIS, add the extension and specify the executable manually. Could anyone tell me where can I find reference about how to accomplish this? thank you very much! Best Regards! Sowen ...more >>

Hi, I'm new to Windows sys admin, so I beg for apologies up front. I'm running Windows Server 2003 out of my house. I have a broadband cable modem that has an IP address assigned by my ISP. I have a Linksys router that sits behind the cable modem. The server sits behind my Linksys route...more >>

Hi, I got an Windows 2003 domain and running IIS. The problem is when I type http://server01/ , I got "You are not authorized to view this page" HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden. But if I type something that is in the IIS e.g. http://server01/apaso I can see the web pages. I also tested with an n...more >>

Can someone help me analyze this.... The problem is that the IIS 6 server is having high CPU usage.... I suspect that msxml3 might cause it - but absolut not sure... Thanks in advance... Rune Bak Opened log file 'C:\IISState\output\IISState-3920.log' *********************** St...more >>

Experts, In layman's terms, what is the purpose of the IIS 6.0 application pools? They did not exist in IIS 5.0. -- Spin ...more >>

I'm really at a loss. I have an HP Desktop running Windows/XP Media Center and IIS is part of the OS. I reciently started a course on ASP and wanted to develop some web pages and try out and I can't get IIS to run. It was suggested that I remove it and reinstall which I did but still won't ...more >>

I have a directory under our website that I want to require authenciation. Our IIS server is on our domain. I tried setting up a local user on the IIS server and disabled anonymous access and enabled Integrated Windows Authentication. When I hit the directory from the web I get a username and ...more >>

I have an XP Pro system, running IIS. It worked great upon first install, and workd fine earlier today. At one point, for no apparent (to me) reason, I started gettng an HTTP 500 error, and can't trace the source. I tried turning off friendly errors, and all I get is the following: "Server ...more >>

Has anyone been able to get IIS working in Vista build 5308? I've been able to install IIS and whatnot through the command line in the Release Notes Addendum, however (twice now under two different setups) I am unable to start W3SVC. This is because I am unable to start Windows Activation Se...more >>

Win 2000 (not server edition) In Sys32 I have cdonts.dll and cdosys.dll Permenant connection to the internet I am trying to send email from an asp script using cdonts - it doesn't send the mail but the code is ok because it works on another machine which is the server the code I am deve...more >>

Hello, I have a big trouble. At home, I have a static IP and I host a Windows Server 2003 SP1. Yesterday I configure a domain, that work fine no problem, good result for a ligne 8Mbit/384k. Today, the sote is very very slow 40 seconds to show a single PHP page without any query, no datab...more >>

I've just installed a fresh 2003 Server system, and am trying to configure mail. Everything seems okay -- When I installed a client in Outlook it tests fine, and I can send mail to outside addresses, however, when I check mail, although I don't get any errors, I'm not receiving test messages s...more >>

hi I am using IIS6 on Windows Server 2003. I have a web site set up which I access by calling up a domain name i.e. www.mydomain.com which is then redirected to the address http://213.214.45.102 and the web page appears. That all works fine but I would like to find a way so that the addres...more >>

SHORT VERSION: How do I enable IIS to allow ASP script access to "/../", e.g. Server.MapPath("/../")? LONG VERSION: Hi! I have recently moved some of my sites to a new host. Unlike the previous host this new one have a public_html// folder in which to place all public files (asp, htm,...more >>

Hello: I have been dealing with a buffer problem for the past several weeks using classic ASP and IIS version 5.1 and using MS SQL Server. The solution to use "Response.Flush" was the one most suggested and it has worked for most programmers I have come across. However, this fix has not w...more >>

I work for a small ecommerce company with approximately 200 websites. Each of our sites has its own unique SSL certificate. As we grow we have more any more SSL certificates which need to be purchased and renewed. Currently each SSL order and renewal is processed manually by one person however...more >>

Here's my scenario: I have multiple websites (less than 10) running on a 2003 Server IIS 6.0. Currently they are all using the default Application Pool. I would like to seperate them into different pools as one of them keeps hanging w3wp.exe and I would like to be able to use the differen...more >>

Hi, I have an IIS ASP website that requires a user to be authenticated on our domain to be let in. However, if a user is already authenticated on the domain they are allowed straight into the ASP web without being challenged for a password. I want them to be challenged for their NT usernam...more >>

hi, some time ago i configured logging options for each web site on my IIS 6 server. I didn't know at the time that you could change the global 'Web Site' properties. now i want to set global logging options, but i cannot find a way to make the child web sites inherit their logging settings. ...more >>