I have server 2k3 web edition and the ftp service stopped working a week ago. The error I get is "the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion" I have tried everything I can think of including launching the service from the command prompt. I get The FTP Pu...more >>

Hi, I would like to make file names served to be case sensitve. E.g. http://www.sevder.com/aboutme.html should work http://www.sevder.com/Aboutme.html should fail or any other file name, extension case differences should fail as 404. -- SevDer http://www.sevder.com A New Source ...more >>

Hello, I am a newbie at developing web pages. I would like to have a page that does two things. Upon loading, the code behind the page should check for and verify the existance of an Access database. If the database is not present or for some reason cannot be accessed, an error message s...more >>

We have a client that claims he cannot set his website addresses to be both www.hissite.com and hissite.com He claims it will cause issues intenally. I believe an A record in the DNS will resolve both sites. Is this true or what approach should we take?...more >>

OS: Windows Server 2003 R2 w/ SP1 In IIS, created a virtual directory where I am going to house two different *.pac files. Path: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\autoconfig Files: glproxy.pac & ltproxy.pac When I navigate via a browser to http://<ip address>/autoconfig/glproxy.pac I have no issues. ...more >>

Dear all, We are having one web server containning HR website. That server having windows 2000 server SP4 OS with IIS 5.5 and SQL server 7.0. All security patches were updated. Configuration of the server is Pentium4 3.6 Ghz processor with 2 GB RAM. Last night the website in that server c...more >>

Hello. Checked my server this morning and all website were "stopped". Red X against WEB SITES in IIS. I checked the SYSTEM LOG and saw this: 1720 The Windows Installer service was successfully sent a start control. 1720 The Windows Installer service entered the running state. 1724 ...more >>

Hi, I get the below error when I try to access localhost in my machine: "Internet Explorer cannot download / from localhost Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later" Is this bec...more >>

Hi All I dont know much about IIS and unfortunatly I have been assign the task of determining if we need to Load Balance a particular app that runs on IIS 5. I am not sure how to approach it but what I am thinking is to simulate some kind of stress test on the server and see when will it r...more >>

Hi everyone, I should start off by saying that I'm completely new to ASP, but have been given the task of migrating a web site that includes some ASP pages to IIS 6, and everything is going fine - with one exception. On one page I get the following error: ADODB.Field error '800a0bcd' Eit...more >>

IIS will issue different response statuses dependent it seems on what within IIS processes the 'Not Found' message and redirects to a custom error (404) page. In the case of static pages, it correctly immediately issues a 404. But in the case of dynamic pages (eg. .asp and .aspx) it issues a 3...more >>

Hello, If you only an answer i'll be very happy :) Do you know how to compress logs of IIS 6.0? Do you know how to modify the directory of logs ? Do you know how to modify the periodicity of logs ? Do you know how to keep a log file to each site ? Do you know best practice to manag...more >>

I have a new home-made Internet transport protocol riding on top of UDP. It has essentially what you would find with TCP, but a specialized type of security. [Yes, I know about RSA, SSL, TLS, etc.]. I plan to create a custom URL for Internet Explorer for which clinking on its links will cause...more >>

Hi, We have a problem with a worker process crashing about once a week on average. The application that runs in this process is our most heavily used site. The error logged in the event log is usually "A process serving application pool 'Shop' suffered a fatal communication error with the...more >>

Hi All, How can run the internet base on the local ip or computer name. IIS 5.1 = is running on my local computer and needs to so some testing on a local = site from other computer.=20 Using Windows XP Pro. If my computer name is Joe then calling the above web thought would be = fine as:...more >>

Hello all, This is complicated. I was asked to generate a CSR in IIS for a renewal of a SSL certificate. I went into IIS, performed the tasks to "Renew" an existing SSL cert. I was informed by the purchasing manager that I had made a mistake by literally reading her request as a "Renewal"...more >>

Can I use this server to be an SMTP host/gateway? I ask because I am stress testing against our company exchange server and am slowings things down for real users. I do not need emails to go anywhere, just be able to simulate email messages via our web application(complete/in progress etc) ...more >>