I have been told to go back to using Internet Explorer 6 to overcome the browser refreshing problem i have whilst using ebay, when using ebay you continually have to refresh the page to bring up current information ont eh site, i have been told by many ebay users that it is a knwon problem wit...more >>

If you make changes to your IIS config, you must restart IIS, which is best done through WMI, it's faster than launching the IIS Snap-in. Plus, it is possible to check through WMI whether the AppPool and the website are already running, if not, WMI can launch them automatically too. Sometimes th...more >>

Hi All, Ok, first off, I apologize for posting a question for a non-supported s/w piece on Windows NT 4.0. We have an FTP server running IIS 3.0 on Windows NT 4.0 which is giving us a little heartburn, weve the permissions setup to allow certain users RWXD (Change Access) in NT 4.0 and this...more >>

Looking for some guidance on web gardens. I see iis lets me set the worker processes to what ever I want. It if set it too high it actually hurts me because I overwhelms the memory and cpu. Is there a general guideline about how much memory should be available after all the worker process...more >>

I did my Migration, everything seem to copy over, except in IIS, I have 2 Default Web Sites. Under the First Default Web Site I have nothing, under the second I have everything that was copied over. If I start the second one I get nothing when I try to go to the website, if I stop the second a...more >>

I want to serve up PHP applications via IIS. Is that even possible? Where do I begin?...more >>

I am building some new servers and have installed .NET Framework 2.0. and 3.0 and have run the aspnet_regiis (for 1.1 and 2.0) and the ServiceModelReg.exe (for 3.0) with several different switches and cannot get the 3.0 framework to list when I go to the properties of an IIS site/application a...more >>

The current version of DebugDiag does not handle managed code. I was told a new version was suppose to be coming in 2007 that would. Anybody know when? -Michael...more >>

I've created in my IIS 6.0 Windows 2003 Servver a new web site (Test Site), this Site is also listening at port 80 but the host header is an especific domain (www.test.com), the problem is that when there is a request from the domain I see the IISSTART.htm page that is contained in the Default...more >>

I have a Windows 2003 IIS server. We recent had a need to tighten the security on a folder that IIS uses. I removed the Anonymous account from accessing the folder and in the IIS Folder security unchecked Anonymous Access. I left Integrated Windows Authentication checked. On our test server ...more >>

Hi, Is there any way to check the Virtual SMTP service status using .net? I'm trying to write an application to alert me when the service is not running. Thanks Gareth ...more >>

Hi, I'm having trouble finding the files required for IISState. When I run the program I get the following message: NOTE: -------------------------------------------------------------------- IISState requires dll's found in the Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows that are available at ...more >>

The web ASP.NET 2.0 application runs fine on my Windows XP computer but as soon as I load it onto our Windows 2003 server I get this error '/master page.master' does not exist The master page is there so am very puzzled. Any ideas as I am going around in circles. ...more >>

Here I am again, the rookie from hell. In the applicationHost.config file, we have section groups and sections. I understand those. I'm kind of lost on what one element is referred to in applicationHost.config. Here is a small example: <system.webServer> <modules> ...more >>

I am administering a Wink2k3 IIS 6.0 server that hosts an application called Red Dot. Recently, the application pool recycle has been killing all active user connections. The following 2 system event log items will sometimes accompany the recycle: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventi...more >>

I have loaded a new ASP.NET 2.0 application into a web site on a 03/ IIS 6 server. Is there a way to test the site locally, from IE6 on the server? What url would I type? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I'm a software developer, and I used / managed IIS only minimal, when needed, so I don't know lot of things about it I just installed for development and testing purpose an Win2003 server, and I want to be able to create multiple top level web sites on it I have a dyndns domain (like...more >>

Hey there, I am needing some help with a project I'm trying to finish up. I have made a directory password protected in IIS Control Panel and added the Windows Authentication to it. Every time I browse the to the folder, IIS returns the Username/Password Dialogue like this: ...more >>

We have a web application, for which we are planning to require IIS 6. My question is if we have users who have 5, how can they upgrade to 6. I thought I read somewhere that there are no longer separate downloads after 4.0 as IIS is now part of Operating System distributions. If that is the...more >>

Hello All, I have 3 Domain Controllers DC1, DC2, and a new server: DC3 DC1 is the IIS I want to move/copy the IIS and all of the files & security settings from DC1 to DC3 Is there a way to easily move all of the files/folder to the NEW DC3, while easily transferring all of the sec...more >>

I'm trying to get an ASP.NET 2 app to run from my IIS6 with files placed on another server. If i run the app with files placed on the IIS6 server it works just fine. But there is no space left so i have to place the files on another server. When i do so i get an error when trying to run t...more >>

Have Win2003 that has just been updated to SP2. Solved some problems with the update and feel exhausted! However am left with IIS6 not running .aspx pages. Shows .htm pages without problem. Have struggled to get this far and feel worn out, so any assistance would be greatfully received. Thank...more >>

Does anyone know of a white paper or article that exists in detailing the applicationHost.config file? I'm looking for something that describes sections such as <sites>, <globalModules>, <modules>, <system.applicationHost>, and <system.webserver>. I've been in www.iis.net and you can dig...more >>

Got another dumb question that I'm just struggling with. What is meant by distributed configuration in IIS 7.0? My guess (which I hate guessing) is that they are talking about the applicationHost.config file and web.config file(s). Would they also be talking about the ability to extend ...more >>

Hi all, First of all i am a complete noob with ISS but I have to start somewhere. I have made a test internet site and placed it in IIS. Now it is possible to launch this site with 'http://localhost/test/default.aspx'. Now my question is can anybody come to my test site over the internet. ...more >>

How do I check if the HttpTraceEnabled / EnableTraceMethod is turn on or off? If it is turned on, how do I turn it off and vice-versa?...more >>

I have a Windows Server 2003, SP1 machine on which I'm hosting web applications (web pages and web services). These apps have been working fine for more than a year. As far as I know, no one in the company made any changes to this machine. We do NOT have Windows Update enabled, but 10 day...more >>

I've been messing around in IIS7.0 on Longhorn 6001 and to make a long story short I need to get back to the default state (when it was first installed or something close to that). I had been making backups using appcmd and so when I did an "appcmd list backups" the only thing I saw was a b...more >>

does anyone host 2 x IIS6 machines with load balancing routing hardware to help provide seamless up time ? thanks scott ...more >>

I would like for users inside my network to type into a browser http://staff and that generic name would point them to the correct server. I do not want to give users the server name as it will change. Regards, Enrique ...more >>

Hello there, I have an ASP.NET 2.0 intranet web app that I want to connect to our SQL database using Windows Authentication with a domain account and a trusted connection. I also want, however, to be able to identify the user looking at subfolders of the web site (without impersonation, so th...more >>

I reported this bug years ago and again in December but have not heard anything about it other than a message stating that my contact info was sent to the IIS team and that they would contact me. There is supposedly a Bug ID of 49058. Basically the bug is this: if you have session variables an...more >>

How can i find which version of .NET my application is using. Assuming i have several .NET versions installed. I know how to force or change the .NET version of my app....more >>

Hi, I recently got a new dev machine and got Vista Business for it. I work on a ..NET 2.0 web application using VS 2005 SP1. It uses a Data Dynamics ActiveReports to generate reports in PDF format (or Excel). The problem is ActiveReports relies on a a couple of script mappings where the ...more >>

Hi, I am hosting a site on IIS (port 1030) I get a logon prompt when accessed from: http://real-hostname:1030 But I am OK when accessed from: http://dns-alias:1030 In fact even if I add an entry to the local host file, for example: 192.168.1.100 fakename And access the site f...more >>

Ive recently upgraded to Vista and to IIS7 for managing my web sites. Im having trouble getting some of my site up and running, particularly dynamic sites which run off Access databases and ASP. The error message I get is : "You do not have permission to view this directory or page because of ...more >>

Hi All, Is there anyway I can run a script against all sites configured in IIS and pull the home directory (local path) information from each of them. Many thanks, Aaron -- If at first you don't succeed..... Kick it!...more >>

Hi I have Windows Server 2003 64 bit. I have installed MS SQL Server 2000 on this Server with IIS6. Now there is a DLL which have the Informations how an App can connect throuht the Internet to the SQL Server. Now when I try to test this dll I write in my browser: http://myserver/d...more >>

Hello, I have three Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP 2 web servers under a load balancer set to round robin. Each run a dedicated c# web application with sessions disabled. Each request gets it's data from RAM (600K used out of 1 GIG), not the database. Each server has a single dual core AM...more >>

I'm doing some testing here with a static HTM page that contains approx 700 img tags, each image is a JPG approx 1K in size. Total size of all images approx 800K. At T1 speed (1.5Mbps), I figure 800K of data should transfer in a little over 4 seconds. I'm seeing actual page load times over ...more >>

Just bought a new desktop. Install and setup everything. Copy my project into virtual directory. When I tried to access my web application using IE7, i got this message. For "asp" application it work find. How am I going to solved this problem. Access to the path "c:\windows\microsoft.net\f...more >>

Where can I read a good overviewer of IUSR_<MACHINE> and how IIS 6 uses this account? The account is given an explicit membership in Guests. Is it also implicitly in Users through membership of Authenticated Users in the local Users group? -- Will ...more >>

Hi, We have a 2 GB RAM, 2+ GHz CPU with dual proc running windows 2003 We need to support about 25 concurrent users hitting IIS. We have web garden settings activated as well. Please let me know what is the best deployment structure for this: 1. One web site, one virtual directory, one app...more >>

I have a very busy site, and I am having an issue with counters for both the File Cache and the ASP cache: The counters for Web Service Cache\Current Files Cached is almost always 0. This should not be, as I understand. IIS should be caching static files in memory. Also, the counters for...more >>

Hi I just upgraded from XP Pro using iis 5.1 to Vista using iis 7.0. Now all my trusty asp sites will not serve properly - no error messages, just blank white pages. I did install asp into my iis and have enabled the World Wide Web Publishing Services in the Services console. I have a...more >>

Guys I'm an arm-chair IIS guy, but I used to develope with IIS in XP Pro. Now I'm in Vista 64 and I am able to work locally, except IIS doesn't see/display my .aspx pages. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Paul, AZ USA...more >>

I've set these up dozens of times. Yet with two new servers on-line, any secure site will not authenticate, even with Enterprise Admin rights. Only difference I know is that these are SP2. I get the digest logon screen, but the site is denied with "You are not authorized to view this page...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to get OWA going for a user who eventualy needs to use Windows Mobile to access his Exchange 2003 e-mail on my SBS server. When I got here the server was already installed and so far I can: - access the OWA interface from inside the domain if I point a browser to the 192....more >>

I just installed IIS on my local Windows XP (SP2) box on which I am an Admin. When I hit: http://localhost it asks me to login, but then it never gets me to the page. Should it be asking me to login? On a related note, I've installed Virtual Server 2005 and when I try to go to its Adm...more >>

We have Windows 2003 Sp1. Our site random time after 1-2 days crash so all new connections are dropped (how we see in iis log). In event viewer there isn't no log. To solve problem we recycle application pool. Our site use asp page and com+. In first time we not have this problem only in re...more >>