We have a main web site (www.site.com) that uses ASP include files across all the pages using the virtual tag. I now want to set up subdomains (sub.site.com) that simply point to subfolders on our main site but when we do this, since every pages using include files, the subdomian pages error ...more >>

I have a Windows FTP site running on IIS 6. Basic authentication works with the Windows Firewall off but not when it is turned on. But when the firewall is on I can still map drives to the server because I added the proper firewall exceptions. What exceptions do I need to add to allow bas...more >>

Hi All, I have a lot of emails in my badmail folder. Almost all of emails are in there because of NDR of DSN( according to perfmon). I do send a lot of emails.. What does this signify? I knw what DSN and NDR means.. Thanks all ...more >>

1. Environment: Windows 2003 Ent. Server, IIS 6.0 all SPs. On one of my web sites I am hosting, I am able to get to http://www.hearingaidcentral.com, but not to http://hearingaidcentral.com...I get the Service Unavailable message. ALSO I get no messages in the event logs for this error on e...more >>

We're getting ready to upgrade some of our servers from 2000 to 2003. I understand that 2003 has IIS 6 on them vs. IIS 5, which is on 2000. If we do a straight upgrade from 2000 to 2003, will IIS "gracefully" upgrade to IIS 6? Meaning, will all our web sites upgrade as well or will we have ...more >>

Hi, I have Visual Studio 2005 and I have to have FrontPage Extensions installed on the server. Is installing FrontPage Extensions a fairly safe installation on a production server? Thanks. (my server says extensions 2002, but I have Windows 2003 Server) ...more >>

Both sites are intranet sites. Current one site we access is by its IP address and it works just fine. I need to add another internal site on the same IP and I followed this but not luck ... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308163 Any ideas please. Thank yo...more >>

I've been having problems installing Sharepoint services onto WinSvr2003 and it turned out to be the SQL Desktop Engine loaded by WSUS. Once WSUS and SQL-DE was unloaded sharepoint loaded in fine. Is there an explanation for this? I thought sharepoint would simply add itself into the engine a...more >>

HI I have setup WMS logging to several IIS servers running windows 2003 using the wmsiislog.dll isapi. This has always worked quite well but I have just setup this up on a windows 2003 server running SQL and I am getting constant 404 - hostname - and connection dropped 503 errors in the httper...more >>

Hi, A certain part of our Intranet is to be viewed only by Mangers. All content is in a folder called 'Restricted'. I have created a security group called 'Managers' and populated it with appropriate users. On the 'Restricted' folder I have remove access to the Users group and added acce...more >>

Hi All, Where do I find the download for IIS. I can not find it anywhere. I am using XP HOME...more >>

I have a Dell 2850 2 Gb Mem dual 3Ghz Intel. Server 2003 IIS 6 clean/new install, ICF enabled and server security configuration run. The server is only role is a webserver and will stop responding to web requests about 4 times a day i go in (RDP) through another nic and disable the main nic wh...more >>

I know this might be slightly OT but... I am thinking of creating a custom 404 page which does a server.transfer to a variety of different pages. My question is what shows up in the log, which the web statistics are based on? 1. The non existent page, which is requested? 2. The custom 404 pag...more >>

I'm having to move a site away from a lousy host - unfortunately - it's all ..shtml files - I'm changing to .html, but I don't have time right now to change to .asp files - - all files have includes (header/footer, etc) Is there a way to configure IIS to make Server Side Includes work with HT...more >>

My Windows 2000 IIS server giving the following error on pages using JScript (JavaScript). "The scripting language 'JavaScript' is not found on the server" "/_ScriptLibrary/pm.asp, line 1" I think this started after loading the last monthly May or June security updates but I'm not sure which ...more >>

Here is my dilemma... Situation: I have an Exchange 2K3 server that uses a gateway server outside our domain to relay email. Exchange 2K3 server is named exchange.domain.com. The gateway server is Win 2K with IIS 5.0. Name of gateway server is Relay and is in a workgroup (not a part of an...more >>

We just upgraded to a new webserver running Win2003 and IIS 6.0 One of the options on our website is to download a blank mdb file for the clients use. I'm getting what looks like a .NET server error. Event a direct url to the file doesn't download it. Server Error in '/' Application. Th...more >>

New to this so bear with me. 2 NICS in a Windows 2003 Server with IIS. One with internal (10.0......) address One with external (216.108.....) address on DMZ Website works to outside users only when the internal connection is disabled. (PING too) Works internally with both IP's enabled. ...more >>

I've been getting intermittent w3wp process errors on our production server for a while now and have been trying to debug the issue. The server is a W2k3 SP1 machine w/ IIS6 running in Worker Process Isolation mode. I have .NET v1.0, 1.1 and v2.0 installed on the box as well (I'm thinking of rem...more >>

Hello all, I currently have a batch of websites and relating FTP virtual directories running on IIS5 (Windows 2000). I have just bought a new server and installed Windows 2003 with IIS6. Is there an easy way that I can move the sites and settings to the new server without having to manual...more >>

Hi all, We have a Windows 2003 (IIS 6.0) web server and we have a mix of ASP and ASP.NET solutions hosted on this server. We have about 6 application pools defined. A few times a day, the pool that hosts ASP application requires recycling. It starts with users getting a Server.CreateObject f...more >>

Hi all. Not being an expert in IIS and SMTP configurations, I am hoping someone will be able to offer some simple advice and instructions on how to fix my IIS/SMTP server. We have a dedicated server which runs our online LMS. This is a virtual server running Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005...more >>

When I try to browse any pages under my default site I get an error 403 forbidden. I can browse it with windows explorer. I dont see anything in IIS default site properties that would restrict access. All of my other sites open OK. ANy ideas? Im going crazy with this one. CR ...more >>

hi all gurus does anyone know how to delete IIS 6.0 logs older then 1 month ? is there any plugin or something like that ?? - all logs are in one log file. thanks Tomek ...more >>

Hi, I am running a test site on my Windows XP PC. Windows XP has a limit of 10 Sessions. I was wondering if there is anyway to view how many active sessions are currently being used by IIS? My test site seems to have some odd problems. I am thinking that I might be hitting the 10 sessio...more >>

Hi can someone please point me to a good resource re adding search features on iis6 sites. Many thanks ... c...more >>

Hi We're having problems with IIS hanging on our webservers. We've recently upgraded one of them to Windows 2003 and IIS6, but this has not stopped the problem - if anything it seems to have got slightly worse. I have an IISState logfile from the 2k3 server, but don't really know what I'...more >>

When logged on to our DC/IIS6 machine as a domain admin, integrated authentication only works if we access our intranet site using the NetBIOS name. If we try to access it using the FQDN we get a prompt for username/password. On the desktop machines we can access it using either address and...more >>

I am writing a vbscript that can programmatically set up many web sites at once. I need to know how I can get the Enable Content Expiration box checked to add it to my program. I thought I could find something in WMI, but none of the variables seemed to match the desription of this check box. Al...more >>

I have to move hardcoded connection strings from .asp. What is the best approach? Few options I am considering 1. Creating .inc file 2. Creating a system DSN Is there a way that IIS can do DSN lookup or that has to be done thru code? Is it possible to put connection strings with user id and ...more >>

Hello Everyone, I bought a Virtual Dedicated Server from godaddy.com and they gave me access rights to the machine, in other words whatever I want to do... Now they gave me 3 IP addresses to the machine, the same I use to connect to do administrative tasks.... I created a test website o...more >>

When an HTTP 500.100 occure in IIS 5.0, I was getting redirected to a HTTP 500.100 - 'page cannot be displayed' error page when there was an error, but now in IIS 6.0, I get 'Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01c2' ' nested within the page. I'm trying to create my own error messages so i...more >>

Hi All, We have a few apps that work off the IIS (v6.0) and occasionally they stop working (which is another problem all together!). To get them working again we have to restart our server (server 2003) which, as you can imagine, is becoming a real pain! I thought a faster solution would be t...more >>

Is there any way to configure IIS to automatically start an ASP.Net application when IIS starts/restarts?...more >>

Hi, We host multiple sites on IIS6, when a client wants a site to run in ASP.NET 2.0 I go into IIS Manager, move the site into a new application pool, then click on the ASPNET Tab, and i change it from 1.1 to 2.0 The problem is that when I do this, ALL websites on this machine get a "Servic...more >>

My Default Web site and some of the Virtual Directory in it are being indexed. So the Web catalog is configure with it in order to perform searching. I have an old Virtual Directory which had since been deleted and the directory does no longer exist. I disable this folder and deleted it on t...more >>

Hi, Issue was : Http 500 error when accesing OWA via ISA server. Workarounds tried: All mentioned soutions tried w/o any outcome. Funny solution : I turned off "show friendly http error messages" and i am now able to access the website !!?? Wht is the relation here..any clues? ...more >>

Hi, Im setting up a dedicated server initially to support a single site (i.e can dump the aspx file in wwwroot). However the chances are I will need to add several sites to this machine soon. The machine (running IIS6) has a single IP at the moment. What is the best way to setup the fir...more >>

Hi, I have a windows 2003 R2 server, with IIS installed. I have configured some web site, and to test some VD of the default web site. When I try to access a asp or aspx page from a browser, i get page not found. however if i try to access a HTML page then it displays. I have check...more >>

Hi I am running Windows 2000 server with iis 5. I have a image resizer dll and they tell me to put it into my cgi-bin folder. Sorry for being naive but where is that. i can't see it in the wwwroot directory. Is it a virtual directory that has to be set up in iis? Thanks Wilbur...more >>

Hi. I have NLB three-node IIS cluster under Windows 2003 + SP1. I specify ODBC logging to remote SQL database (SQL 2000 EE). Now we try analyze data and see strange records Very simple query to DB: select top 100 * from dbo.IIS_WebLog order by processingtime desc In the log table I see pa...more >>

I installed DotNetNuke on IIS6 (Server 2003 Standard) so I could run a DNN-based In-Out Board on our company intranet. Most of the time, the In-Out Board works beautifully for our 27 users, but occasionally a user who tries to visit the page is greeted with the following error message: Oop...more >>

I have had many attempts to log into my server many of which are coming from various ip addresses. Most of these seem to be from China. I want to block a range of IP's via the server. Is there anyway to do this? The router will not block the ip's. Please help....more >>

Since installing the security update http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=16DD21A1-C4EE-4ECA-8B80-7BD1DFEFB4F8&displaylang=en on our Windows 2000 server (SP4) all ASP pages which utilise Javascript have stopped working with the following error Active Server Pages error '...more >>

I am attempting to convert an Apache server to IIS, feature-by-feature. The last thing I have to do is convert the Apache Virtual Hosting by name (a user has their website within their home directory and apache figures it out according to parts of the domain name). http://user-one.domain.com...more >>

Hello, We are having a problem with our website. When on the inside of our firewall www.domain.com takes users to our site, but domain.com takes them to a default IIS under construction message. Outside of our firewall the www.domain.com works just fine, but domain.com can't be found. Than...more >>

I am at a loss as to why I am unable to make a web service call. I am getting a 401 return code even though anonymous access has been enabled. I even tried running aspnet_regiis -i, but that didn't seem to help either. Anyone have any suggestions? ...more >>

We are getting the following error while opening web projects from Visula Studio, its complaing some prolem with IIS Metabase... We tried Uninstall --- IIS,.NET,and even tried with uninstall and install the Service Pack but nothing is working out .... any solution? the OS is XP Professional ...more >>

I've been stuck on this issue for the past week now and it's really driving me crazy. I need to know how to programmatically add/delete extensions in web directory when I create the web. What I mean is that if you open the IIS manager, then right click on the default web site, go down to prope...more >>

Can anyone point me to the right place to find out how to use my asp apps with UNC paths. I am having a problem with the apps starting. Here are a few errors I receive when browsing from IIS admin.. Any help is greatly appreciated.. Server Error in '/Authentication' Application. --------...more >>