I would like to setup IIS 6.0 and restore our old web server configuration. Our old web server is using IIS 5.0, i had tried to create a MetaBackup from IIS 5.0 to restore in IIS 6.0 but it is cannot completed. How can i migrate all old web server (IIS 5. 0) configuration to new server (IIS 6....more >>

We have some IIS prerequisites to our web application installation... First, we check the following registry entry to see that IIS is installed: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "Software\\Microsoft\\InetStp", "MajorVersion" . This appears to be OK for detecting if IIS 7 is insttalled during initial te...more >>

I need a method to restrict our users to a limited number of websites - and have been told that a PROXY SERVER is required. I'm not sure what is involved, or how to set this up but would like to find info to do so. This is for a small company whose users access info through a terminal server...more >>

I've got a problem that crops up about once a week on one of my web servers. I have two identical web servers, and for some reason it is only happening on one of them. Every now and again when I pull up a web page from a client machine on Web Server #1, the page is garbled and looks oddly render...more >>

Hello, I just started with certificates and SSL. I have a certificate for a domain.com, installed on IIS and works fine if I try to access it through https://domain.com. However, if I access it with www (https:// www.domain.com) I get Domain Name Mismatch. I do not want to buy another certifi...more >>

I am migrating my sites fro Win2K to Win2K3 web server. My servers (in the DMZ, of course) run IIS anonymous access under a custom local account. I have the same account set up on the network in AD (same name and password). I also have the same account set up as local account on the systems on...more >>

Hi All, I've been struggling with getting IIS 6 to use Kerberos but it looks like it keeps failing back to NTLM. I'm attempting to use delegation on my IIS server to allow for admin pages where we can create user accounts, new group policies, change passwords, etc. using regular ASP with VB...more >>

Our intranet is running on NT authentication, we recently upgraded it to COM+ for the authentication and now it has taken a serious performance hit. We include a lot of VB DLLs along to connect to SQL Server. Any suggestions to troubleshooting the performance issue? ...more >>

Just started to work with Indexing Service on our Windows 2003 Server with 218.000 Word dokuments and Pdf (old WP files) etc. I started the indexeing and added the different shares etc. Al seems to work wel. The Catalog displays 221977 docs and some 11 wordlists and 1 saved index. But i did a ...more >>

Hi All, I have an virtual directory in a Default Website. I want to redirect any request goes to that virtual directory to an HTML page. Ex: Virtual Director: Default Website/livelink/<any page> This needs to redirect to "Default Website/livelink/migration.htm" How can we achieve this? ...more >>

Hello We have a server (2,4 Ghz Xeon with 4 Gb RAM) that is the host for 150 web applications running in 90 application pools. The problem we are facing is that sometime one particular application (Lagarde Storefront eCommerce app) start crunching the CPU and the memory. We can see that somet...more >>

Hi, We are developing our C#.Net 2.0 applications using the SQL Server 2000 as our database server. We didn't do anything useing the Lock and Unlock so far, and our application runs seems fine, but I'm not sure. Given on this situation that Client A and Client B and Client ... are using o...more >>

I have multiple websites on my Windows 2003 R2 server and using host headers. Currently I use All Unassigned IPs in each sites setup. I have a Linksys router that uses a block of public static ips that I have mapped to my network connection as a private 192.168.x.x. I can assign up to 5 p...more >>

Hello All: I keep getting this error "You Have Been Denied Access to this Machine" = when trying to connect to a remote web server running IIS 6.0 The = account I'm using is an admin's account. I can access the web server = locally using IIS snap-in but not remotely. At a loss here, can anyone...more >>

I am getting the following error when trying to install IIS on a new XP Professional machine with SP2: Setup cannot copy the file IIS_chaccess.vbs I have never seen this before. Thanks, Matt ...more >>

I'm looking for a good utility that will test our Internet connection speeds. I found and have been considering www.myspeed.com but wondered if anyone has experience with this product? Good/Bad?? Is there something else I should evaluate? Thanks, Mark ...more >>

OK, i am trying to set up multiple website on IIS. I have been trying for about 2 hours now and going nuts. I want to use the same IP address so I thought..."OK, simple, just use a host header". Currently the name of the box that I access internall is testbox so I just point my browser to ...more >>

Hoping this is in the correct area of the forum... Ok basically just looking for the best route to switch users (About 300-400) who are using printers on a current print server (Windows Server 2003 box), we'll call print-serv1. So all the printers they use are currently on that server and t...more >>

I am developing an app on xp and porting it over to our server. Its an ASP web app (not ASP.NET) with an SQL Server 2000 backend and it seems to work great on the development machine. When I move it over to the server though I lose all data in my comboboxes. The page loads correctly with all bac...more >>

Anyone seen this error code before: 404 0 1236 Cheers....more >>

Hello All, I am using ISS 6 in Windows 2003 server. I have got a intranet site which is up and running fine with Ip as Unassigned and default port 80. I access the web site directly by http://servername Now that I want to host another intranet web site, So i gave the ip(instead of una...more >>

Is there a VBS script or something out there that can create web sites in IIS6 with multiple host header/ip/port bindings? And that can also add virtual directories? I need to migrate the about 100 web sites from an old IIS5 server to a new IIS6 server, with pretty much the same settings (sam...more >>

Hi there, I can't get Http compression to work on x64 box running Windows Standard 2003 SP2. The setup I use: 1) C:\WINDOWS\IIS Temporary Compressed Files is writeable bij Everyone 2) C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll is used to handle asp.net requests 3) We...more >>

Hello: I hope someone here can help me with this situation: I have a website setup in IIS6.0 on a Windows Server 2003 SP2. The website has it's home directory located in a network share. A user account is specified in the network directory security credentials via the "connect as" tab. ...more >>

We have a web install that creates a virtual directory, etc. and edits some config files. The installation is kicked off from a wrapper .exe called autorun.exe. Installing as an Admin and allowing the application to run at the UAC prompt, one of the first functions is to detect if ASP.NET web ...more >>

so i can setup iis to do the following? -for 2 domain names (dns) both pointing to my router (mydomain1.com + mydomain2.com) and the router sends all port 80 traffic to the iis machine, say 192.168.0.100, so traffic for both is coming in on port 80, and browser users only have to provide doma...more >>

I get the error below on my web server on a regular basis. It occurs for different sites, apparently at random. The storage location is on the local disk and the disk has at least 20GB of free space. An helpful suggestions will be appreciated. Unable to write to the log file ex060126.log ...more >>

Hi, I need to make a fodler under IIS7 where a program can upload some files via HTTP. But I just can't seem to find the "Write" permission checkbox from IIS6. Is it enough to just set write permissions for the specified user at the windows level ? Regards, Hans Olav ...more >>

Is there a utility that can be ran on a server to see if port 80 is opened. Do I have to use routing and remote access to get the websites on IIS accessable from outside my firewall? We have tested the DSL modem and linksys router and they seem to be working properly. We can not get acces...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to set the access permission on the virtual directory using adsutil.... For some of the obejcts it gives error "Error Trying To ENUM the Object (GetObject Failed)" When I did a listing using adsutil enum /p I could not find the folder in the list. Can anyone suggest w...more >>

Hi Have just installed IIS7 on Vista and am trying to access a .mdb file through ASP. Getting "An error occurred on the server when processing the URL". I think the problem is in the file permission. Under XP Pro/IIS6 is used to have to set the .mdb file security via windows explorer to gi...more >>

Hi Everyone, I had a disk issue with my laptop last week and lost my iis metabase and other files in that folder. I resotored that folder from a very recent backup and got IIS working again. Unfortunatley there is an app that does not work. Its a ASP.Net 2.0 app that uses AJAX and the...more >>

I have problems with the links inside the page creator. I publish the pages, but a fatal Error 404 occur in many links. When I return to the page creator I see the links and in red is written "...not found", so I have to post again everything, save, publish, but sometimes it works, sometimes doe...more >>

Hello, My config : Windows 2003 x64 (US VERSION) + sp2, IIS 6 All regional settings to French (even for default user) In my ASP pages dates are in the good format (french:dd/mm/yyyy), but impossible to have US date format when i set the Session.LCID=1033 I did a simple test: <% Return...more >>

Good afternoon. I have just started a intranet page for our employees. My server is Windows 2003 with IIS 6.0. I use FrontPage to manage and maintain this web. My question is: give them an inch ... the boss now wants a blog, or some sort of manageable message center, that employees can po...more >>

I need to copy intranet file from a NT server to a windows 2003 server. After copying I found out that the default asp page is not working on the 2003 server. The copy was exact. So, do I have to look for something different here. Another thing I found that the intranet directory is not under ...more >>

I am having problems accessing intranet test sites. Here's a break down: I create a test site within IIS on Windows Server 2003 Assigned Host header vaule is test.servername or test.serverip Directory browsing is enabled Default Application Web Service Extensions allowed: ASP, ASP.NET, WebDAV,...more >>

Hello, I've got the following problem. I'm running Windows 2003 server (no DC) with IIS6.0. On out intranet we have a form that sends an email when submitted. It's on our intranet so when people click the link they have to login with their domain account to access the page. That works. But ...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for help with starting and stop sites using WMI and C#. So far I've been able to connect to IIS6 on a remote server, create the site and directories etc. but the sites are stopped by default. Any code examples would be appreciated thanks ...more >>

I got Gzip compression to work on HTTP, but should it also work on HTTPS? and if so how do you get it to work? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to install IIS on my laptop whit Win XP PRO. The installation end normally, but when I try to access the "localhost", an IE require me User Name and Password. The local Web is configured for Anonymous access and the IIS user for Anonymous connection seems to be correctly conf...more >>

I not sure if this is the right place or not. Here it goes I have a windows 2003 server running IIS 6.0. I'm having problems where the websites characters are chnaging from this Bahá'í Conference to Bahá'í Conference. Now if I put in the header of the web page <meta http-equiv="Conten...more >>

How do you enable GZip compression in iis 6? we want compressed content to be available on all of our hosted sites.. thanks! ...more >>

I am setting up IIS 6 on Windows 2003 server R2 SP2. I can access my website from behind the firewall, but when I try to access it from a computer outside my firewall I get the message below. I can use remote desktop from another location outside my firewall and get to the server just fine...more >>

I have a really strange problem. I have an ASP.NET 2 c# application which on load access 2 stored procedures. All work OK (normally) The application has an ajax timer which every now and then calls the server. Then at one point in time I get an error. On refresh I see that the stored p...more >>

I am trying to set up Reporting Services on one of our servers. It is set up and I can get to the reports by typing in http://localhost/reports but when I try http://<servername>/reports I get page not found - this also applies to any files in the default website. I think it is something strai...more >>

Windows Server 2003 SP1 IIS v6.0 Clients trying to hit web sites on the server are getting “Service Unavailable” error messages. The system logs show the follow warnings leading up to an error. Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 1009 Date: 8/2...more >>

I have 45 websites running on IIS, many have multiple host headers. For example www.companyA.com may also have a host header for www.companyA.net. Does anyone know of a clever way to generate a list of all my host headers without having to drill into each IIS web properties? thank-you! -...more >>

Hi All, We have hired a new app developer who is native in PHP and I am tasked with deploying a server solution that will enable to him to develop in PHP... I know PHP and Apache work very well together, but I have heard some horor stories about PHP on IIS. The brief research I have do...more >>

Hi There, I'm playing around with a little social networking project and I'd like people to be able to view their profiles and what-not using a nice clean URL. You see this kind of thing all the time on big sites, like this... http://bestuff.com/stuff/spider-pig ....I doubt that Bestuff...more >>