Hello, I have a big issue with a web server for a month now, and I can't find any solution. I have a Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition with IIS 6 on it (I'll call it "the server"). On this server there are 2 web sites : First web site : www.domain.ext and an alias.domain.ext application...more >>

We've installed an SSL certificate and it works fine internally but not externally. We host our own site so if I type https://servername the site will pull up. When we switch to external, https://www.sitename.com just hangs and nothing pulls up and no errors. In mmc, i can look at the snap-in...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem with some of our webservers. In the performance monitor I can see there is a lot of paging going on. The websites that are running on these machines are classic ASP websites and they are using msxml4 with the latest SP. The server is a: Windows 2003 SP2 Dual Xe...more >>

Is there a way to host multiple websites on the same IIS server inclusing sites that will use HTTPS? Can the sites have multiple IP addresses? If so how can I do this?...more >>

Can someone explain to me what host headers are and what they are used for?...more >>

Can someone give me a link to some documentation or explain how I can implement an asynchronous design pattern to handle a TX request that is received by IIS? I would like to be able to free the thread in the thread pool handling the request while my TX Pipeline is processing I/O (e.g. goin...more >>

I'm pretty new to this stuff so please bear with me. I'm trying to access files that are on the same server as my web app. I can connect to files that are in the same path as my app, but if I try to connect to any other folder on the server I get the "invalid path" error. This connection strin...more >>

I am trying make a site under IIs 6.0 respond to both www.mysite.com and mysite.com...more >>

Hi, We are running ASP application in IIS 6.0. But w3wp.exe crashes unexpectedly with the following message. An exception dialog appears and one of the following message is logged in event log And any one of the following are logged in the System log during the w3wp.exe exception: Mes...more >>

I have a puzzling problem. When I use FireFox to browse a page that has Scalable Vector Graphics items (.SVG) then these SVG items are rendered on the page inline. My FF comes with a built in Adobe pluggin or something like that. The problem is, when I create a page on my local webserver (X...more >>

Is IIS 6 available for XP Professional SP2 ? I have v5.1 on my machine but would like to take advantage of some 6.0 features. Emilio ...more >>

Hi all, I've been doing a lot of reading and research into this, and I don't believe I'm running into "first load" slowness problems -- something's slow about loading an initial ASP.NET 2.0 app on my server. Details: 1) There's *NO* activity, *NO* CPU usage, while I wait for the page to fi...more >>

anyway to browse all files on the webroot as an anonymouns user connecting to a site hosted in iis6 ? (only READ enabled on site in iis - i.e not browsing) Anyway to find the files availble in this case ? Thanks Scott ...more >>

Hi, Im running the MS stress test tool pointing at my webserver. I have performance monitor running to keep an eye on webservice current connections and well as windows resource monitor. Im seeing 70 or so connection to my site/aspx app on iis6. At this point CPU and RAM usage does not c...more >>

Hi, I have 3 servers : - An XP workstation running IIS 6 a Windows 2003 domain - An Windows file server in the same domain - An IIS Server NOT in the domain. I setup a virtual directory using an UNC to a share on the file server. Using a network mount, my account can connect to the networ...more >>

I have an asp.net 2.0 website on an win03 server. The server has an ssl certificate made with selfSSL. When I hit the site with ie7 I get the message "this page contains both secure and nonesecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items.". On FF2.0 no such message. I answer y...more >>

Just wanted to know, in your honest opinion, what is a good tool to use to analyze then graph website logs for page visits, etc....more >>

We've had a problem crop up on one of our development Servers running IIS. Any App Pool that has its Identity set to an account that is not an NT AUTHORITY (Network Service, Local Service or Local System) account will result in the App Pool failing and returning a 503 Service Unavailable. All ...more >>

We have recently upgraded our website to .Net 2.0. Since the upgrade the servers running our site have been hanging up and not responding to client requests. We have done a number of dumps while the worker process is hung but can't see exactly what the problem is. We can see some long runni...more >>

Hi, I am trying to set up an environment on my laptop where I can work with ASP, Cold Fusion and Front Page extensions (like on IIS or PWS as server) and SQL Server as db. I would also like to work with PHP extensions (like on Apache server) and MySQL db. Right now, all that I have insta...more >>

how to change port in iis for wss 3.0 EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com...more >>

i had changed the port number 80 to 81 for wss 3.0.it does not take.what is the problem. EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com...more >>

Hi, I am using Windows Server 2003 SP2/ IIS 6.0 with about 30 Virtual Directories (all configured to ASP.NET v1.1) under an application pool. This application pool has started crashing frequently. I am attaching the DumpDiag report - it seems to me that some of the ASP.NET process is crash...more >>

I have my dev enviornment, where one particular page test.aspx takes about 0.9 seconds with IIS 5.1 and asp.net 2.0 Where as the same exact code on IIS 6.0 with asp.net 2.0 with a separate app pool takes about 9 to 10 seconds. IIS 6.0 has more resources available at its disposal. I have ...more >>

have a small dev server with a few sites which i would like to test with ssl. if i run selfssl for a site it works fine. then when i run selfssl for an additional site, the previous does not work with https. also after selfssl is run for a particular site it removes the IP associated in the...more >>

Hi, Can somebody point to an HowTo, how I manage NTLM-Auth for WebDAV. I could not get it working, maybe I'm doing something wrong. I have a workgroup szenario, no Domain szenario. - ServerUser and Workstation Username are correct ( SMB/CIFS works ) - NtAuthenticationProviders are "Negot...more >>

My site is randomly firing off a "ExceptionHttpException : Unable to validate data. " error on some of its forms. ------- HttpException : Unable to validate data. http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/Members/Private/EditProfile .aspx (Referred by http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/Members/Private/Edi...more >>

On an asp.net web application I have a certain page that connects to SQL and gathers data running many queries to provide a report to the user. I am doing the same thing (different data, same db connection) on other pages and they seem to work fine, however on this page in particular weird auth...more >>

Was this ever resolved? We are having the exact same issue on a critical production server and so far have not been able to resolve. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated! EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com...more >>

I=A8ve intalled the iis7 in a pc with windows vista. I=B4ve added a new site that I=B4ve already had in my old pc and worked perfectly ,and now , when I tried to see pages that use access database , it will display a http 500 error. The rest of the pages work fine Any idea of what I must do to ...more >>

Hello, I am having problems with running an asp website on a server. We have a Windows Server 2003 R2 in question. It has been setup for an Application Server using the "Configure your Server Wizard". IIS 6.0 is able to work with a standard HTML webpage. However when we replace the folder ...more >>

Since I don't have SAN for clustering for our web servers I'd like to set up to member server for HA. Is it possible? If so, how can keep both synched? Can I use MS NLB? Thanks....more >>

Looking for some advice or docs on migrating a IIS 5 environment to a new server with IIS 6. Not sure if I should upgrade the IIS 5 to 6 then backup and restore? Or what the recommended path is....more >>

I have recently moved to IIS 6.0 from IIS5.0 for a web application in-use 24x7 that requires signing on with usernames/passwords that is stable without problems (been running for 5 years without the need to periodically restart it because of memory, bug problems, etc.). Without knowing default...more >>

Would anyone know why worker processes would get recycled prematurely? For example, say you log into a site and you're supposed to stay logged in for 20-30 minutes or as long as you're active, but in 5 minutes it sends you back to the log in page. Something is forcing the worker process to...more >>

I'm trying to set up Remote Web Access between my laptop and desktop, but following instructions for set up, I can't go more than one step becase "Internet Information Services" is not available as one of the Windows Components. Advice?...more >>

I was attempting to implement simple URL Rewriting using an HTTP Module in asp.net with C# with an event on BeginRequest and powered by a Context.RewritePath. I got everything to work fine. When I was using FileMon, I noticed that aspnet_wp.exe attempts 2 file access for the file that's rewr...more >>

I have moved my website from IIS 5 to IIS 6. I have a number of sub = sites and they all are edited with FrontPage. The permissions show up = when I use the tool '.../fpadmdll.dll?page=3Duser.htm'. People can = connect view FrontPage and edit but when they try to save FrontPage = says they don'...more >>

Hi all, Time to ask the experts; I have the virtual SMTP server running in IIS 6 on a win2k3 standalone server. I use it to send email by dropping a properly written text file in the pickup folder, this works fine. Now I want to use it with a program that requires an SMTP server name,...more >>

I posted this in the WCF forum and didn't see any response. Re-posting here to a wider audience to see if anyone else has seen similar behavior... Created a simple service in WCF and hosted it on my XP box in IIS (5.1) which works as expected. I was interested in exposing the endpoint to both...more >>

We've been running an ASP.Net app for quite some time now. Suddenly, the app is locking up for no apparent reason. The app starts with a login screen that asks for a code. The code is entered, looked up in a SQL 2000 database and redirected to the main page. We've stepped through this cod...more >>

I have different web sites and applications under wwwroot/inetpub and I am trying to configure one of them as default. Used localstart to redirect to that folder and works. What I get is the www.something.com/folder/file. What I need is www.something.com/file. Any help is appreciated. Thank y...more >>

Hi, Just wondering what progs any of you quys use to replicate folders, sub folders and files within from webserver to webserver. Thanks....more >>

Hi there everyone, I need to install IIS with World Wide Web Service component on a very large number of PCs running Windows 2000 remotely. It shows that I have to install IIS 5.0. For some reason i386 folder has been deleted and it is impossible to upload it completely to every single one...more >>

Hi everyone I am writing a ISAPI extension, running on a Windows CE webserver. I now want to extended my ISAPI with a file upload. There are a lot of examples on file upload with ASP, but I cannot find a really good example on doing it with an ISAPI extension. The only thing I have till now...more >>