I am running Server 2003 with IIS 6.0, how do you open the default web page? Stupid I know, please indulge my ignorance. Thanks, last2know...more >>

We publish quite a few .doc files on our web site for customers to download. We're getting a complaint from one user that happens to be using 'MSN Explorer' and Office 2003. I'm not familiar with MSN Explorer...is it just a rebranding IE for MSN customers? The issue, as described by the cu...more >>

I am trying to get page compression to work with IIS 6.0 and the BEA Weblogic ISAPI plug-in. I have had the same configuration working with IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0. The trick was to add the file extensions "jsp" and "wlforward" to the dynamic list in the metabase. With IIS 6.0 I am able to get ...more >>

I get the following error when trying to run a web app. Access to the path 'C:\TCAPrjPhotoOnline\APP_DATA\TCAPRJPHOTODATA.jds' is denied. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about...more >>

I get "Could not start the World Wide Web Publishing service on Local Computer. Error 127: The specified procedure could not be found." when i try to start WWW service. what's missing and how do i get back? also, where'd it go? i googled something about KB939373, but i can't remove it. ...more >>

Hi there, I have IIS7 and set up a web site. How do I tell if and how many people are connected "live"? Thanks, Gordon...more >>

I havce run into a problem with and IIS ASP.NET 2 app I am building for our organisation. It has an app pool, a dedicated port (8085) host headers etc and runs well from within our organisation. However, I now want to expose it to the outside world so my users can log in remotely without...more >>

Hello: We are having problems with a server using W2000 SP4 fully patched, IIS 5 Using ASP and XML object (version 3 SP9), from time to time the asp pages stop responding until we get "script timeout". Debuging our code, we have found that it fails using serverxmlhttp object, it gets blocked ...more >>

I enabled IIS7 on Vista Business. A workstation on the LAN can view the default website. I have enabled the router to forward http to the Vista Business machine. However, the Shields Up! application at grc.com reports no webserver at my IP address. Is the problem likely with IIS7 or Vista or b...more >>

Running IIS 6 on a Windows 2003 box. IIS would run for about a day and then IIS Admin and WWW Publishing Service disable themselves. The Event Logs only show the information message that they are being set from auto start to disable. I've already applied all of the patches available from Micro...more >>

Hi, please help me with a strange problem: I use the WebDav extension in IIS6 to upload files. This works flawlessly except for a file called "MSB1CACH.LEX". I think this file belongs to the Microsoft Office suite. This particular file is 1536 bytes in size but after uploading it its size ...more >>

We're having some serious performance issues on a Windows Application Server. At randomly intervals, the processor pegs and the machine just comes to pieces and has to be rebooted. It's under so much load, you can't even log into it. We have three Web sites running under IIS, and we need to ...more >>

I want to change the identity that IIS runs under, from iuser_computername to an active directory name. Where can I find a checklist of privileges that my new account needs to have on a Windows 2003 server? -- Arne Garvander Certified Geek Professional Data Dude...more >>

I'm dont know much when it comes to IIS in terms of configuration. I'm using IIS on our small business server to host an intranet. I havent configured it in anyway at all, i have read that if i use frontpage to design the site i would just put in http://companyweb into the upload address...more >>

Hi all, I know, IE 7 handles SSL a little better than past versions - :-) But is there a way to to tell it to stop with the warnings on an SSL site that I know is secure - but does not have a wildcard SSL Cert ??? the SSL site can be accessed through a corporate portal (95% of users) & ...more >>

I assume this has something to do with IIS, as I get the same problem when redirecting with ASP.Net I am trying to make a redirect from http://www.netmidlan.fo to https://www.netmidlan.fo/nm/SignOn/SignOn.aspx Notice, the 2nd is HTTPS. But somehow, HTTPS gets converted to HTTP somewhere...more >>

Hello All, I've been searching high and low without luck... I have IIS6 running on Win2003 with a bunch of asp pages. Several times a day I will get a pop up window on the server that states: Memory could not be read at address xxxx error code yyy. (Window title is w3wp.exe) Same message sh...more >>

Hello, I have Windows 2003 server with IIS 6 installed. Question : I goto to the following path : http://server/data/products/manual.doc.lnk where 'manual.doc.lnk' is a shortcut to the 'manual .doc' document located in another directory. Is it possible to configure iis so that th...more >>

Hello, I've got a messed up installation of IIS7 on my development machine. I really don't know how it happened, it all started with a 53Kb applicationHost.config file with that only contained 0 bytes, and now I can't uninstall and reinstall to continue my work. I've tried uninstallation...more >>

We have one exchange 2k3 server, we want to enable SSL on OWA, we want to replace our self-issued certificate with a third party certificate.. I need a Certificate Signing Request to get that third party certificate. when I look at the IIS.msc default site/properties/directory security tab i...more >>

I have a Default Site with port 443 for SSL. If I have a secondary web site, that uses both 80 and 443 (the same ports) but with a different header name, when starting this site I get an error telling that port 443 is already in use, and that I should assign a diffent number. Is is possibl...more >>

On a server with Windows 2003 Web Edition. There are several software demo files for download. Many of the download requests for the same file are coming from different webpages. I'm looking for a way to track the number of downloads by url. Can IIS do this itself or do I need to add some scri...more >>

Hi Hope someone can offer some input on this... Running IIS6 with both ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 applications. Naturally everything is seperated out by application pool. When I run this script: http://blog.crowe.co.nz/archive/2006/08/15/676.aspx It warns me that one of my app pools (the one ...more >>

Hi, I made my application in IIS as High(Isolated). In component services the application is running under the default account IWAM_ComputerName as we know. I need to change the account to a custom account. I did through the property box "identity" tab in component services and configured my ...more >>

I installed php for iis 6, but if i call a page written in php, it get the following error: The page cannot be displayed You have attempted to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed. Please try the following: ...more >>

Hi, I had to put on an web app which uses ASP.NET 2.0 on my fully patched SBS2003 SP2 machine and just discovered that tha ASP.NET tabs are missing from my IIS6!!!! Does anyone have any idea on how to get them back? Many thanks!...more >>

Hi I have created a request for a certificate on a website in the IIS. By mistake the pending request has been deleted from IIS so I dont know how to install my certificate. Is there any way to restore the pending request? I still have the certreq.txt file that was created. Thanks Billy ...more >>

We have recently upgraded a web server to 2003 server and IIS6 (from 2000 server and IIS5). We were having problems with people managing to download files on the server using http. Before the change we were able to access all file types with no problems. Afterwards certain types did not work (.k...more >>

Hi, We have a windows 2000 server running IIS 5.0 with some 15 ASP applications.We are rite now planning to install .Netframework 1.1 and 2.0 for deploying ASP.net applications in the same server with IIS 5.0 . It would be very helpfull if you guys throw some light on the possible impact on t...more >>

WHen accessing my website internally it works but externallly I get an http 500. What is the cause of this error? ...more >>

We have a .net application that reads the If-Modified-Since header via context.Request.Headers.Item("If-Modified-Since"). The resulting string sometimes has appended to it "; l", after a normally valid date string. We are temporarily working around it by parsing the string, but I would really ...more >>

I have a web app that logs the IP's of users that appear to be hacking the site. Right now I manually look at the recoreded IP's and enter them into IIS as IP's to block for all websites. I would like to do this progmatically with the IIS API. Can anyone point me to the right Objects/Methods, ...more >>

I have Receiver.ASPX script which seems not to be processed by IIS, as the browser returns blank page with source containing aprocessed ASPX script (see below). Can you tell how can I find what is the reason and how can I fix it ? Regards, Maciej <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="t...more >>

I have had a couple of occasions where I found log entries like this : 2007-09-21 00:46:25 W3SVC849604990 PE2650 216.242.142.233 GET /shopcontent.asp type=%3ca+href%3d%22http%3a%2f%2fk2njydpenispumpgaga%2einfo%2fpenis%2benlargement%2bpill%2fpenis%2benlargement%2bpill%2btestimonys%2ehtm%22%3ep...more >>

Please can someone help. I have a server with about 50 websites. Most of them are giving errors on pages running ASP. for example : http://www.habatatgalleries.com/va/ http://www.kidsindistress.org/gallery.asp http://www.richleighyachts.com/yachtdetail.asp?id=35 http://www.cobbq.com/shopdi...more >>

Hi; I am running Windows XP Professional w/ SP 2. I just tried to install and run IIS, which is required for a course I am taking. The program installed, I then double clicked on the icon in Administrative Tools and the IIS interface came up . I expanded the entry and navigated to Web Sites. ...more >>

Hi, I use IIS6 to publish our intranet , such IIS website is in a x.main.org AD childomain; there are no issues for x.main.org users to access such website. The AD domain is a multi-site AD windows2003 domain where there are a.b.c.d.e..main.org domains. What do I need to set to keep pro...more >>

I'm running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2. Around the time I applied the SP2 update, users of my website who needed to download large-ish (4MB - 12MB) files consistently started getting "Posix error, connection reset by peer" errors. Please see the following thread which details m...more >>

I have 1 static IP address and I would like to use it for more than 1 website What's important is that I can't nest the websites in sub folders, e.g it has to be www.website1.com/ and not www.website.website1 I have win XP and IIS 5.1 Thank you, Samuel ...more >>

Hello all! I have started testing IIS 7 under Windows Server 2008 (beta) and have installed .NET Framework v3.5 on the same machine. However, I'm unable to see .NET Framework v3.5 as a configuration option for the application pools in the IIS Manager. All I can use is .NET Framework v2.0...more >>

I am hoping someone can help me. I have a client using Gallery software. He is using Gallery software on his local computer, pictures that can be viewed from his Website hosted at another site, are actually on his local computer. When people visit his website, they can click on a photos butt...more >>

Hi, I have been reading the posts as I am investigating using of HW Load balancing for our user access/requests to a new Web farm that we are looking to implement which will host Sharepoint / SQL, Citrix Web interfaces and other applications etc, I would like to know if it what are ...more >>

I have an customer facing website running under IIS 5 in loadblanced environment. my issue is one of the website is looking for "\" at the end of the URL the url look like this http:\\www.xyz.com\abc\ it works only with "\" at the end otherwise it doesnt work If i do not use the "\" ...more >>

I'm at an agency that is not permitted to let the internal IPs of the web servers get out. Since we support many different applications, its difficult to filter all the content being uploaded to the web servers (500+ apps). How can i block or set the return value to an empty string for a ser...more >>

Hi group Running Windows 2003 R2 (intranet) in a NLB cluster and 2 webservers running MS CMS 2002 mixed mode with a SQL 2000 backend When I request the first page there's approx 30 sec. load time (somethimes longer) - any other pages after the first page serves up immediately. Some time...more >>

https://www.cacert.org I just learned about them. They look relatively new. Could this be a good option? Mike ...more >>

Hi. I'm trying to script an install of iis 5.1/win xp. - This works: manually installing iis rundll32 wamreg.dll, CreateIISPackage aspnet_regiis.exe /i for both .net 1.1 and 2.0 browse to localhost and it rocks. instead of manually installing I tried sysocmgr.exe /i:%SYSTEMROOT%\inf\sysoc...more >>

I have a website with some client banners, the problem is that they are not gerring the referral information when someone clics on any of the banners, they use different statistics services and none log those visits as referred from my website. I am just doing a response.redirect("http://www.c...more >>

Are there any issues with changing the domain membership of an IIS 5.0 server. We are undergoing an Active Directory migration to a new pristine forest using ADMT v3 and wanted to verify that there wouldn't be issues using the security translation wizard on IIS and moving it to the new domain...more >>

Hi there, I am testing impersonation in IIS 6.0 and server is returning 401. Let me explain the situation. https://my.server.com is the URL and have a virtual (test) that uses integrated windows authentication. The "test" app creates a instance of assembly from GAC and invokes a method ...more >>