my AppPools keep failing, errors in EventViewer say Failed to find the RegisterModule entrypoint in the module DLL C:\bin \php5\php-cgi.exe. The data is the error. This was a module I created at one time, but I later removed it. I have check my modules both at the machine level, the web si...more >>

Sorry if I'm the millionth guy to ask this question, but if IIS is installed, and TaskManager shows inetinfo.exe running, and Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Internet Information Services appears to indicate that IIS V5.1 is "OK", and Norton NIS has "personal firewall" disabled, but http://...more >>

Hello, In the farm of NLB working with IIS. Do you know if there is a possibility to remove the server when IIS service fall, and to switch the traffic on the other server ? (that is possible in "arranging" but I did not find a solution to industrialize that). In the same style, if a ser...more >>

We had a problem years ago where outlook form templates stored on our ISS server would not always open in Outlook for certain users. We finally figured out it was because that we were missing an OWA mime type in the IIS site. We now have a new server and need to apply this fix once again, ...more >>

Background: I have a classic ASP application that has in it a number of business documents/forms in RTF format that the user can generate for an individual customer. This app has a screen that allows the user to click on the name of the form they want to generate for this individual. When th...more >>

Hi all, All formulas for optimal values of the Thread pool parameters are based on the number of CPUs (http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20050613.asp or http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998583.aspx#scalenetchapt17_topic8). My question is how to count the Dual and Quad-core CPUs...more >>

Can anyone help I have window vista ultimate installed with iis7 altrough the server will prosess the asp page but will not get the information from the Global.asa file can you help? ...more >>

Hi, I'm working on project using VC#.net framework as a front end and SQL SERVER 2005 as back-end. Can any one provide me with the details about the tools and hardware/software specification and all the other specification and requirement for the project. ...more >>

Here's my situation. I'm creating an asp.net web application that will have a corporate website, as well as 50 individual state websites that will be hosted as 50 seperate subdomains, on 50 seperate dedicated servers. I already setup the DNS records for the corporate server, and everything...more >>

Hi, I'm sure this is easy, but can't figure out what it is. Cross posted to Exchange and IIS. My OWA works fine internally and externally currently. The correct URL for accessing is https://mail.company.com and i've got the default site home directory to point to /exchange so it goes auto...more >>

Hi, Our production server - w3wp/AppPool crashes intermittenly. When crashes it leaves the following messages in the logs. HTTP.exe log has statments as 1. "Connection_Dropped DefaultAppPool" 2. "Connection_Abandoned_By_AppPool DefaultAppPool" Event Logs has statements as 1. "A...more >>

Hello, I'm sorry if this question sounds like "stupid"... but I'm just a webdesigner. I've installed Opera browser to test the websites but from Opera I can't open localhost, a popup request me username and password for the localhost server. In firefox I set localhost as trusted site in confi...more >>

I've managed to hose my IIS, and hose it good. In troubleshooting a problem with CardSpace on the ASP.NET site I'm developing, I ended up setting the ACL's to allow ASP read access to all the keys in my MachineKeys store (as per a thread at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?Pos...more >>

Hi, I'm in the process of setting up Outlook Web Access and have a few IIS related questions. Exchange server hosts OWA by default. Currently we have http://mail.company.com which works externally (A record added). It forwards to the Exchange server. https://mail.company.com also works (...more >>

Good Afternoon, I hope everyone had a GREAT week. We're running SBS2003. We just installed a member server on our network as a Web Server. We want to move the website that is on SBS2003 to this new member server. I'm not sure how to do this and what steps are involved. Right now we ar...more >>

Hi, How does IIS logs are written. (though by default enabled) I know we can enable / disable logging in inetmgr. But I want to understand what is the code they have written to create IIS log files. The other part to this question is, is there a way to get the source code for it? Rega...more >>

We are running IIS on Windows 2003 Standard Edition Server. We are building a new Windows 2003 Standard Edition server. We want to shutdown the old IIS server and assign the IP address of old server to the new server. Do you see any problems? Do we need to do anything else? Thanks. ...more >>

we're developing .NET web applications on XP SP2 running IIS 5.1 ever since March ALL workstations we are using have same MAJOR issue. we think it was a windows update that broke us. when you access a published site, say http://localhost/Reports (sql reporting services web app) or any other ...more >>

Hi, I have copied my sites SSL CA Root Certificate to my web sites root for users to download and install on their browser. When I visit http://www.mysite.com/cacert.cer the browser returns an error saying the file is not found where it is infact there. Does anybody know what is going on here...more >>

Hi there - limited knowledge here. I have been hosting a SharePoint Wss2 site for a year internally on our network. We have moved to Wss3.0 and want to put it external for external users (with AD accounts!). I have created an ISS website. Let's call it "website" Now..... The server is...more >>

I'm running ISA 2004 SP2 on Windows 2003 Server SP2. I cannot get compression to work on IIS6, and I've double checked my setup several times. I'm following the instructions from: http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/howto/16267d49-4c6e-4063-ab12-853761d31e66.dcik and http://www.microsoft.com/te...more >>

Can anyone suggest a tool (if one exists) to capture IIS traffic and be able to "replay" that traffic? We are in the process of moving from sql2k to sql2005. What I would like to do is take a snapshot of the sql2k db, start iis logging, and let the prod site run for a few hours capturing a...more >>

Hi, I am working on the problem with crashing of the app pool in IIS 6.0. Then I set up DebugDiag on windows 2003 server and the dump file was created. The following report was created as part of the dump file. I am trying to analyse the report and the possible causes of the app pool crash....more >>

I have the follwing problem. I have a Winxp pro SP2. So, when i try to write in the browser http://name of my server, the internet explorer reply me: The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technica...more >>

Hi, I have a web application where users typically have to download large PDF files. However, when they do this, their browser typically attempts to immediately open the file. This is a problem because when the browser does this, it does not give any indication of how long the download is ...more >>

I have a desktop that runs our small company intranet on IIS 5.1. I am trying to install some new software that does some report writing functions called rePortal. The install has me create a new virtual directory, pointing to the install directory, and then I should be able to fire up //MyMac...more >>

We are migrating one ASP/VB application from IIS4 to IIS6.0. Applicatione uses remote objects registered from remore application server. It is registered under Remote computer under MTS on IIS 4.0. I don't see similar option to Add remoter computer and register component under it on IIS 6.0...more >>

I'm looking to host two websites off of a single server. I'm got the domain registration site pointing to the public IP of my server; and I've set up a second site with host header in my IIS 6.0. I've got two questions now (and please bare with me, I have limited knowledge/ experience with hosti...more >>

I have configured iis in 2003 server. 2 websites were running . i setup one more website. the new website is having ASP.net 2 and old websites were having ASP.net version 1. Now the old sites are not working. the event viewer is having the error report "Event Type: Error Event Source: ASP...more >>

I've set up ssl on IIS MS Server 2003 with our own certificate. When clients access from outside they receive the Security Alert- "Issued by a company you have not chosen to trust" Date - OK Name - OK. They can gain access if they choose to proceed. I've entered the site https://abcd.com...more >>

Hi I am using .net 1.1 to send an email with a .ics attachent. However my code keeps failing silently (that is, no exceptions or errors in the event log, but no email recieved either). If I comment out the line that add the attachment, the mail sends fine. If I point the attachment to a ...more >>

We are currently looking for a back-up location for one of the website that we are currently hosting. . Www.ABCDE.com is hosted in one of our facility. We want a backup hostsite for it. Would it be possible that one site to have two DNS - 1 primary , the other as backup? Say if the primary sit...more >>

I have a virtual directory called "test" on my local machine. My web site has default document of (amongst the usual) "index.asp" Assume the file has the line "<% Response.Write("Hello World") %>" in it... I can access the file by going to "http://localhost/test/" in my browser, however wh...more >>

Hi there, We have OWA setup internally. We can access it via mail.company-name.com/exchange as i've put in an A record for mail pointing to exchange server IP. However i want it to work when i type in mail.company-name.com and not having to put /exchange on the end. Any ideas how i do this? ...more >>

Hi, i've a ip static 62.62.62.62 and a server 2003 SBS IIS6 with 3 site. I've buy from a provider 3 domain with redirect to 62.62.62.62: www.society1.com www.society2.com www.society3.com In my server i've: the default xxx.domain.local port 80 Then i created another 3 web site where i...more >>

Web server was up for 19 days and all of a sudden the client side application stopped working. the Web log shows 404 0 2 which is "File not found Denied due to Lockdown Policy". When the servers were rebooted the problem cleared If some group policy been pushed down from the domain; normally...more >>

Hi! Were using a Windows 2k3-machine with IIS 6.0 and SP1. The online shop on this machine is available via the IP adress for our customer to look at and for our developers to, yeah, develop^^. Sometimes, very sporadic, the firefox browser brings an error message, that the connection to the s...more >>

Hello, I have II6 running on a new 2003 server with FrontPage extension installed. That's all that is running on the box (Dell PE 2900) except for Backup Exec. All patches up to date. The server hums along fine for about 36 hours then simply stops serving. Clients recieve page not ava...more >>

Buenos dias: Me ha surgido la necesidad de migrar una aplicaci=F3n a .NET. Actualmente tengo instalado un IIS5 sobre W2K. Para que las aplicaciones .NET funcionen sobre IIS5 es suficiente con instalar el .NET Framework?? La otra posibilidad es migrar la aplicaci=F3n a un IIS6, pero me supondr=...more >>

Hello All, I need to add about 433 mime types to few of our IIS servers. Manual process involves going through Folder Properties -> HTTP Headers (TAB) -> MIME Types and adding extension one by one. It is a painful process. Any way to script this task???? thanks saqib http://www.full-di...more >>

What is a good load testing tool for IIS ? Specifically I need to load-test a certain page in IE6/7 and use Performance Monitor to measure the avg request execution time .... ...more >>

Good Afternoon, I hope everyone is doing good. We're running IIS6 on Win Server 2003 R2. I'm trying to move my default website and admin site to Drive D. It was installed on C. When I looked at the properties under default website and selected a different location, none of the files or f...more >>

All, I have a sever issue with IIS & NLB. I have dual NIC's with NIC1 on each PC a part of the cluster. In sharing IIS, when using the PC name for http access to the page, it works fine. However, when I use the NLB cluster hostname, for PC1 it works, for PC2 it prompts me for a login/pa...more >>

Hi it looks like there is a problem with IIS not refreshing properly. It is on a live server so not quite sure how to fix it. The problem is that when you add a folder to C:\inetpub\wwwroot it does not show up in IIS under default website. I need to get this working for Crystal Reports vs ...more >>

Hello I have an IIS server that is hanging up to 3 times a day. It is running a third party application called Mailsite Express which is written in ASP. The output from the debug diag lists some threads that are most likely the cause (shown below). Can anyone suggest what I might be able to do t...more >>

Hi all, I've installed ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 to work along side IIS and we are using perlis.dll as the parser. What is happening is that when ever we view a perl script we only see the html code printed out. I'm told that it is a result of result of perlis.dll sending default CGI HTTP he...more >>

howdy I installed IIS in vista home premium and created a virtual directory but when I logon to http://localhost/thisSite/ the following error occurs But when I run 'thisSite' from vs 2005 its a different port number eg http://localhost:8304/thisSite/ How do you get it to work for onl...more >>

I know this has been discussed before, but I'm having some problems. I've got Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0, with 1 public IP address. I've got one site being hosted already, it's been up and running for a while. I've gon into the IIS screen and added a new website. I set the original site to...more >>

Hello Everybody, I have a stranges problem I can't resolve. My server has a brand new installation of Windows 2003 R2. At first a have give my server the following tasks: * Application Server (IIS) * Remote Access/VPN Server * Streaming Media Server I did installed everything by the boo...more >>

Is there a limit to the number of virtual directors IIS can handle? what are some of the higher numbers you guys are getting? we are at 100 and growing fairly quickly and i'd hate to run in to a problem with this in the near future. Thanks Justin ...more >>

hi, when looking at the IIS logs I would like to find out the destination page the user was redirected to when a HTTP 302 is sent. any way to find this out? Andy ...more >>