i have someone who is trying to publish a FP site to a new server. he can log in. and it starts to publish. but then during the publishing process it will frequently stop saying it lost the connection. He usually has to start the publishing process 4-6 times before it finishes. This is a fa...more >>

Hi, Can someone tell me what can I put as a value in the host header value of a web site in IIS 6.0? Our web server is inside the network. Can I put for example ServerName as the value or do I have to put a value like www.WebSite.com? Thank you Jacques ...more >>

Site is slow on my own dedicated server - http://www.mp2kmag.com but I am not getting a lot of traffic, maybe only 2,500 visitors a day. Process w3wp.exe hovers at 98%-99% and CPU is pegged at 100%. Is it easy to do a trace or figure out what is hogging CPU? Some of my theories are -- po...more >>

We have a number of websites on both a production and a development server. On each server, we have a data drive that has sufficient space on it for the logfiles (around 500-700 megs per day). On each of those servers, our default website is the main website we have. We also have a number ...more >>

I have an ASP.NET application we are developing that restarts for no reason that I can find when the following occurs: 1. The user has been idle for a few minutes. 2. The application is calling a component (c#) that is our DAL to all our external data sources. The component is in the GAC and i...more >>

Hi, For some reason, the Internet Guest Account (<server name>_ANON) is kept g getting locked out. I do see failure logon request from security log, but I can't figure out which application or what kind of request caused it. Does anyone have any idea how to trace down the problem, such as ...more >>

I'm running IIS 6.0 on 2003 standard server and receive this warning "metabase key 7043 is out of range using 1 as default" what is the meaning of this and how can I correct this issue. ...more >>

Hi All, In the process of looking into another IIS issue I came across this problem when experimenting with IISSTATE. I ran IISSTATE with the following command line: iisstate.exe -p <w3wp.exe PID> -d -sc The only visible error was that the web page took a little longer to load. This may ...more >>

I need advice on load balancing two Windows 2003 servers running IIS6. have two web sites one internal and one external facing both of whic connect to a database back end. For security reasons I was going t give these web sites different IP addreses. Both servers have tw network ports. Can ...more >>

I have a multihomed IIS 6.0 server running on Windows Server 2003 SP1, using round robin DNS to spread the load over the NICs. I want to replicate this server (runs only one site) to a remote server of the same specification, and make the remote server part of a farm where it is accessible by ...more >>

I have a problem with a customer which is using IIS based on windows 2003. The question is simple all these deviations from the normal HTTP standard presented on IIS see following link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;318380 Are they actually sent downstream to the en...more >>

Hi, Recently when i was migrating a perl CGI-based application running under Apache 2.x to WinXP/IIS5.1, I found a serious problem with IIS. CGI will hang in memory if you close browser during uploading file to webserver. I wrote this simple C++ program as below and debuged it with Visua...more >>

I have IIS 6.0 installed on a Win Server 2003. Installed Visual Studio .Net 2003. At first I was able to create ASP .Net web and web service application yesterday, but somehow it stopped working today. The default home page is working. Any idea? Thanks in advance/...more >>

When my computer is always connected to the internet via a DSL line with specific IP address should mean that if I create a website with IIS and assign it that private IP address, I could access that website from anywhere, inside and outside of my network, I tried this, but it didn't work. wha...more >>

Anyone got some sample .sql code for LogParser to output user IDs and time of users accessing my OWA server to excel. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I have two IIS servers which need to be load balanced. Each one will contain two web sites, one public and one private both will interact with a database back end. The private web site will be separated off with a separate IP address. Has anyone got any advice on how to set this up so t...more >>

I'm using network load balancing and IIS 6.0. The application is set up to use anonymous authentication with the anonymous user being a domain account. A couple of pages in the app allow files to be uploaded to the server. Right now the files are copied to both machines so they can be acces...more >>

Hi - How to stop service that has hung without rebooting the Server? In command prompt, give the below mentioned to stop the service without re-booting. NET STOP W3SVC NET START W3SVC Other than this. Many thanks in advance. Cheers, Sivakumar Palanivel ...more >>

Good afternoon! I have a small problem with an ASP.NET 2.0 application. Basically, as mentioned by countless others - ASP.NET seems to be just hanging. Checking the trace file shows the last request - which does load any of the page, controls or code. This appears to be something a little furt...more >>

Hi! I'm not quite sure if this is the right forum to ask about this, but I'll hope that if you aint able to help me, someone can help me in the right direction... I have a server where I have several DNS connected to the same IP for that server (company1.com, company2.com etc to one IP)....more >>

any information about installing IIS on a terminal server for a company intranet site? security issues? can it be done? articles on doing this? Thanks!...more >>

Hi, my environment is XP Pro SP2 with latest updtes/patches. It is a test box. Accessing any site on that box is creating temproray files in the C:\ drive on that box. Also any page other than static html is getting timed out (asp,aspx..etc). ( may be, it could be due to permission related to...more >>

I'm not sure how to set up permissions for my webpage. I work in a company where i cannot change any settings on the fileserver. However i know me and my users can access the files/folders on the server that i need. The only way i can access the file server (using FileInfo) is when i set i...more >>

I had to re-install SQL Reporting Services yesterday (after a Crystal re-install dinged it). Everything went well on the install and everything is configured exactly like RS is configured on our other servers. However, when I try to bring up RS Manager, the browser never connects (though it fl...more >>

Does anyone know what a 500.87 is? I get it anytime I POST to a Perl or Php script and I authenticate as a user on the local server. -- Jerry M Software Engineer Jacobs Sverdrup APG MD...more >>

I have IIS 6.0 on BOX-A (windows 2003) and SQL Server 2000 on BOX-B (server 2000). I want my ASP pages to be able to pull data from BOX-B. Sounds simple to me. I'm familiar with doing this when they are on the same machine. Now they are on different machines, same domain though. I have the O...more >>

I hardly know where to start with this as it is the most bizarre occurrence I have ever encountered. Up until last weekend, everything worked fine on my computer. Now, when I go to two sites to login to various accounts (www.citicards.com – click “Small Business” tab on upper left or w...more >>

We have a live webserver that is running .net 1.1 and 2.0 (mainly 1.1 websites) This morning put a .net 2.0 website onto the server and we are getting http 404 errors. The 2 different versions of the framework are on different application pools. And both versions of the asp.net are allowed. But...more >>

Hi, Would you please help me? I have the following problems: I am able to upload a large file (around 5MB) with non-SSL connection in IIS without any problem. However, when I upload this file with SSL connection, I keep getting "the server returned an invalid or unrecognized response". ...more >>

Hi, Just looking for some advice/recommendations on good books on IIS6 for someone who doesn't know much about it. I'm not new to administration but have never had cause to learn IIS, so techy books are OK. Anything that includes references to Sharepoint Services would be a bonus. Than...more >>

I keep getting an error and this is the dump file can any one help me t solve my problem? Analysis Summary Type Description Recommendation Error I aspnet_wp__PID__1696__Date__03_28_2006__Time_12_16_41PM__593__Second_Chance_Exception_C0000005.dm the module C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framewo...more >>

I need to setup a user for the FTP server. I would like the user to provide ID & password and sent directly to its home directory with all the permissions to create/delete folders/files in this hoem dir. Please help! Thanks Bill ...more >>

Hi, I am a beginner and I try to learn how I can create a domain. Under my local machine I have Inetpub/wwwroot but I would like to create different other domains. How can I do it? Thanks, Doru ...more >>

I have recently run into a problem that seems to be an issue for a lot of people. I have just done a complete wipe of my system and I am now installing all of the software. I installed IIS with FP server extensions and then installed VS.NET 2003 and Visual Source Safe 6.0d. After the inst...more >>

We have the following problem: A web-site is configured to not give anonymous access to executing aspx-pages, but we need some aspx-files in a sub-directory to be able to be executed anonymously. we have -given "everyone" and the iusr - account read/execute rights to the files and the f...more >>

Hello: I have written a DLL to upload files from a client PC to a web server using HttpSendRequestEx. This is done using the standard method of breaking apart a large sized file and writing it in peices to the web server. The problem is that occasionally (perhaps even rarely), an error No....more >>

An existing MOM server (still in evaluation mode) is the only place I have to install SharePoint Portal Services. The problem is SPS will definitely take over the default IIS web site and probably break the MOM Web Console. Any suggestions on the best way to proceed with this combination of p...more >>

Hi We use IIS6 just for OWA (Exchange 2003) every so often the ability to access the OWA page stops, even if you go onto the server and localhost still can's access page, the only way to respolve this is to restart the server? Any help much appreaciated Many thanks Mark...more >>

We have some users that are still not converted to AD, they use thier legacy domain accounts to logon, these legacy domains are not trusted with our intranet which is all sharepoint portal server 2003. All these users do have AD account. When these users visit the intranet IE displays window...more >>

Anyone know where you can get list of what these status codes mean? I've seen 0, 10054 (often), 3, 87, etc... but can't find what they really mean. Thanks...more >>

Hi, This is a problem that I had before, went away for some reason I don't know, and that I got back now with my freshly installed pc. I have XP Pro, with all service packs, latest updates etc installed, and IIS. http://localhost, http://MyComputer and http://127.0.0.1 worked fine. Aft...more >>

Hi, Probably overstating the obvious, but I am kinda new to website admin. I have several sites on W2K Server/IIS using host headers. I want to http connect to those sites from my workstation. I am behind a router than will not allow a connection to WAN side from LAN side so I cannot do so b...more >>

I found this to be the closest newsgroup for this problem. SMTP server cannot create a file in the queue directory D:\inetpub\mailroot\Queue\. Googling, the only thing i can find is that people get problems like this only when they go from C:\inetpub... to some other path. I'm on a dedica...more >>

The company I work for is an application service provider of ASP.NET web applications. As our customer base is increasing rapidly for us hosting the applications, so are our physical resources. However, what we've been seeing in the past few months just doesn't make sense, and there has to be a ...more >>

Hi All, I'm running a Windows 2003 Server, all patched up latest SP. I've not fiddled with this box for quite some time, it has a third party mail program on it (MailEnable) which handles emails for me. It expects communication on Port 25, and suggests changing the default port for "other...more >>

Hi, I have inherited a problematic ASP web app w/c causes memory leaks every now and then. As a remedial measure, I need to re-start IIS to clean up memory. I would want to automate IIS re-starts, and so I figured using the Alerts feature of Performance Monitor should do the trick. My pro...more >>

Can Visual Web Developer Express and Frontpage Extensions coexist on the same IIS 6 server? I tried using VWD on a page created with Frontpage. It found a few errors (orphan tags, and so on) which were easy to fix. However, it did not like the hit counter that frontpage had added. It complained ...more >>

Hi, I found some strange ftp folder on my web server. folder looks like this: E:\FTPRoot\ \ \ \com4\NODELETE \com5\ScanneD \com3\by \com4\Noname\com3\TaGGeD \com1\by \com8\speedman\lpt1\ \with Neo1907=B4s PuB-tAgGeR \com7\uPPed \com9\BY \com1\heino I can't seem to delet...more >>

running 2003 standard with .net application. asp.net application written, runs successfully, has images on aspx form. New application written same images folder in asp.net solution same web form same images solution runs and displays form with images in debug. Create another virtual director...more >>

Something happens on one of our servers that requires a restart of the IIS Admin Service (this forces a restart of the WWW Publishing Service, the SMTP Service, the POP3 Service, and the HTTP SSL Service.) Approximately three hours before the downtime in each case, there is a message in the...more >>