Hi Experts there, We have been using the Standard Edition of Windows Server 2003 (with SP1, and auto updates enabled) over the past few years for common tasks of hosting company websites and serving as a FTP server. One of my staff (with his non-administrative account) regular uploads files t...more >>

I get a message saying (This happens all the time.)that internet explorer has encountered an error and needs to close with the folowing message box: iexplore.exe mod ver 5.1.2600.2180 app. vers. 7.0.6000.16414 mod name ntdll.dll Don't know if this is the right place to post. I've nev...more >>

My IIS memory usage gradually increases and after 3 or 4 weeks, the site goes down and restarts. Can anyone recommend any tools to see what handles are alive on the server and how much memory is being consumed by the handle. I've been trying to use Sysinternals:Handle but I only get paths an...more >>

Here is a IIS Crash log that i obtained from a web server where I am having a major application issue. The result of which is that the AppPool for this web application is being killed whenever the web app is invoked. If I have left something out, or the log is not useful, please let me know: ...more >>

Windows 2003 Standard edition server running IIS and frontend of ASP.NET application. This machine is experiencing the symptoms described in MS KB http://support.microsoft.com/?id=821268. I've currently run the suggestions in our development environment to test. I'd like to have a baseline num...more >>

Hello all! We have a IIS server running Windows Server 2000, and it hosts our self-developed online application. This server is using a static IP and ISP's DNS to solve it's name. When we type www.xxxxxxxx.com in the URL, the log on screen appears and everything works fine. However, when we typ...more >>

With IIS 6.0 Compression enabled, can I use that for compressing .js and/or .css files?? I tried to add "js" to the HCFileExtensions and HCScriptFileExtensions in the Metabase file (separately and together), but I see the entries are removed after doing an IISReset... has anyone compressed javas...more >>

Hi everybody, I install IIS and Tomcat on my server to address every single jsp pages on IIS to Tomcat. I create a test application on http://ip-macchina/applicazione and it seems to work properly Now I need to use this application from the url www.applicazione.it; I create the web site on I...more >>

Hello, I am trying to use an ODBC connection to a database on my domain. The script will run perfectly on the server where the database resides but will not work if ran from another server on the domain. The common theme to the error is that the path to the database is invalid. The data...more >>

Hi All, I am using ASP.NET 2.0 and Sqlserver 2005 for my website on windows 2003 server. After installing website at server, my website is unable to interact with database server at frequent intervals of time. Once the connection gets disconnected, the connection will establish automatical...more >>

I have windows xp professional with IIS 5.1 installed in it. To test my php files I have to move them to .../myweb. Is it possible to change the default path to which my php files have to be in to run? It's a long path and I would rather not have to type it in all the time. Any suggest...more >>

thanks everyone for the responses to other posts, I wouldn't have been able to get this far without them... I have 2 computers (Client, Server), 1 Hub, 1 Wireless router, and would like to: 1) have a the Server share the Clients wireless to gain Internet access, 2) as well as to h...more >>

I am getting incredibly slow response from IIS 5.1 on xp pro sp2 machine. using AVG virus , windows firewall, Seems it has trouble retrieving pages with images. Also very slow for ASP/ASP.net pages html files are returned ok with no images, but very slow when page has images. Any ideas on...more >>

Hello all, can IIS be setup to return a 404 with a custom page in place? When I telnet to the server: c:\telnet www.mywww.com 80 HEAD www.mywww.com/lalalalalala.html HTTP/1.0 I get a 200 OK - not a 404 - and I am certain that page does not exist. thanks! ...more >>

Everytime i go to my website it loads some of the content then stops and asks for a box asks for username and password. If i hit cancel it loads all the way, i have other website on this server that don't do that. How do i stop it from asking for a username and password?...more >>

I am running a web site on a windows 2003 server using IIS 6.0 with Java VM 1.5, New Atlanta Servlet Exec and requires client certificates. When I upload large files to the server I get a 413 error. I can upload small text files but large images fails. I have changed the SSLAlwaysNegoCli...more >>

Is there a minimalist approach to logging in IIS 6.0? I've read that disabling logging altogether will give you some performance gains but how then do you report on traffic - aside from an external tool I do not see how? Is there a minimum set of columns in to log that will aid in performance, r...more >>

Hi we are having problems with error 404 in IIS 6. All was working fine until yesterday when one of the sites starting displaying the 404 error. If I try to browse the site from within IIS it still displays the error. In the logs it appears that the host header etc is correct it's logging ...more >>

In my IIS5 I changed logging to ODBC logging. ODBC logging option is only available if IIS5 is installed on a Windows 2000 Server. Then I get this error in Event Log: Event Type: Error Event Source: IISLOG Event Category: None Event ID: 6 Date: 26/02/2007 Time: 17:33:31 User: N/A Com...more >>

Can someone please explain to me what is meant by saying that IIS 6.0's managed code's lack of ability to interact with the entire web request pipeline as being 2nd class citizen? ...more >>

Hi all, For all dynamic pages served by my IIS, it adds an extra new line character at the start of any output. It's not a coding problem because it happens for all applications installed on my web server and even the localstart.asp file that ships with IIS. To illustrate, the localstart...more >>

I have been administering a web page for years now and do so via Remote Desktop Connection to a Windows 2000 server running IIS 6.0. In order to make changes to the site I have to upload a file via FTP (FTP Explorer to be exact) which sends the file to the FTP folder on the server. Then I have to...more >>

Hi Folks: I am trying to set up an extranet. The issue I am having is as follows: When I am accessing the extranet from the inside, the public URL (https://subdomain.domain.com) in the address bar automatically resolves to the netbios name of the hosting server (https://webserver). Not a b...more >>

Hello all, We are in a situation where we have to run both .Net 1.x and 2.x on our site for 2 different apps. We want the 2.x app to be at the root (http://www.ourorg.org/) and the 1.x app to be under that (http:// www.ourorg.org/oldstuff/). If we set it up that way, it seems that .Net 1.x ...more >>

I have a question which may be an easy answer, but I cannot figure it out... I have IIS 6.0 running, have created a website entry, then went in and edited it to add a host header. Everything is going OK at this point. I then open a command prompt and type in NSLOOKUP www.customizedre.com (whi...more >>

I have a server with 100+ web sites - many are being migrated over - the content in fact already and the webs in IIS are just stopped. Is there any performance gain by deleting them entirely vs leaving them in a stopped state? Thanks guys ...more >>

NT Server 4,0 with Service Pack 6a Everyday the Services Option under My Computer / Control Panel goes off line and is not available giving me an error message that the RPC Service isn't available. In fact other options are also not available. Also at the same time web sites are not visible ...more >>

Question-- where is the text file, what is its name, do I make it or find it etc.? The Page Counter component uses an internal object to record page hit-count totals for all pages on the server. At regular intervals, this object saves all information to a text file so that no counts are...more >>

After a w32.spybot.worm infection on the network I'm experimenting several IIS crashes (1 each 5/6 hours)on a Windows Server 2003 dedicated to OWA publishing. Don't know if any link between worm and crash...any way any suggestion in order to fix the problem? See attached dump details. ...more >>

IIS 6 is returning a 500 error when a REPORT request is sent to it. How can I configure IIS to allow the REPORT request?...more >>

I'm being baptized by fire in IIS. What is meant by the "administration stack"? ...more >>

Hopefully this is really simple. When I get an email, there are picture "attachment", but they don't open "in" the email. Oftentimes it's conduciive to the email that I be able to view the pictures in order in the email. How do I get them to open in the email? Thx! <MD><...more >>

Just tried to install IIS 7.0 on Longhorn build 6001 and after going the wizard I have a ton of errors like: "Attempt to install IIS Management Console failed with error code -2147023293. Fatal error during installation" I have these types of errors throughout. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hello, I wanted to know that once SSL is implemented with Client and Server Certificates on a Website. How to check if Authentication information i.e. User Names and passwords are passing from Client to Server in encrypted form or not ? Website is developed in ASP.Net 2.0 with Login ...more >>

Where can I find a document which speficies IIS Extended Log File specfiications. For example I would like to translte the entry for cs(User-Agent) from Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+InfoPath.1) to for example IE7, Windows XP.... etc Evan Camilleri http://www....more >>

Hi group, I'm running Vista Ultimate with the new IIS MMC snapin for IIS7. I can't figure out how to connect to another machine. Even when I use the <right click My Computer--Manage> predefined MMC tempate and choose to manage another machine, the IIS snap-in is still connected to my loca...more >>

I am very new to IIS (using v6) but setting up websites using the host header technique. But what I cannot figure out is how to FTP into a given web site in order to upload files for display. (I figure it must be easy because no one even seems to ask the question.) One thing I figure makes my ...more >>

Hi we have both 1.1 and 2.0 .Net framework on the same IIS server our product only runs on 1.1 at the minute. Does anybody know a way of setting the IIS server to use 1.1 .Net framework as the default instead of it going straight to version 2.0 This issues is driving me round the bend. Than...more >>

Hi, I have the following question: If someone changes the hostheaders within IIS is there a way to see this in any log or event or something else perhaps? I want to monitor this with MOM 2005 but I need something to point to my rule. Thanks in advanced. ...more >>

Hello, I have Win Server 2003 running more than 3 years well. There is couple webs, where content update is made by calling foo.exe from ISAPI dll. FOO.EXE unzips new files into web folder. It is working well when started from CMD. By the end of last year I had HDD failure and I had to r...more >>

Hi, I am trying to set up a folder under my "My Documents" folder, called say MyWWWRoot, as a relocated web root directory under IIS 5.1 (Windows XP Pro). Using the IIS management console I created a new Virtual Directory under the Default Web Site node pointing to this folder. I kept the ...more >>

Our IIS 6 are hosting many web sites (like 200) and we need to back up just one of them (we don't want to back up entire metabase). How can we do that? We tried with simple copy of main folder but when we restore it all subfolder/file original permissions were missing. Any help will be ap...more >>

Hello, If I install Self Signed Certificate with SELFSSL.exe, there is only one purpose i.e. "Server Authentication" is displayed in the properties of certificate after installing in IIS 5.1. How can I add more purposes such as "Client Authentication" so that the same certificate wit...more >>

My web server crashed today and given below is a snippet from the log file 2007-01-11 11:04:46 210.212.210.166 2747 192.168.168.105 80 HTTP/1.1 POST /synergy/RGEN/rg.aspx 400 1 BadRequest DefaultAppPool 2007-01-11 11:04:46 210.212.210.166 2746 192.168.168.105 80 HTTP/1.1 POST /synergy/RGEN/...more >>

I have coded a class that uses the bitmap class to generate graphics from True Type fonts. I'm using it primarily to render 3 of 9 barcodes from a True Type font. When the exact same code is used to generate a barcode from some Web servers the barcodes print nice and clean. From other Web s...more >>

Hi all, I,m trying to run a CGI server through Win2003 Server IIS but within the application pool if I don't use the LOCAL SYSTEM in the Identity tab then it doesn't work. I have even tried to add a new user as a Local Administrator and granted some domain restricted polices on the machine. N...more >>

We have two registered URL's - one to our IIS server/intranet site on port 80 and one to the IIS server/OWA on the Exchange Server on port 81. I want to put a link on the intranet site to the OWA. If the link is to the external URL of the OWA it works fine. But if the link is to the internal...more >>

I have a Sharepoint Intranet site and I would like the URL to alwayes default to the FQDN. How can I make this happen?...more >>

Hello, I wanted to know if the following properties of Server Certificates to be matched with the Server Certificate? 1. Issuer 2. Issued 3. Thumbprint 4 Validity 1. if Private key in the Server Certificate should be associated with the Client Certificate also? 2. If Server...more >>

Hello All, Is there a log analyzer out there that gives you great details.... outside of just listing the top 20 directories and top 20 pages that are hit? Is there a log analyzer that will let you isolate one folder within your IIS ... and tell you all of the activity about that folder? ...more >>