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IIS - Change IP address - forbidden access
I am hosting several sites on IIS 7.5 on Server 2008 R2.
The server has a local IP address - 192.168.0.2. All port forwarding goes through the router and all works fine.
I have a license file for ...
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How to block a login page except to certain IP's?
In an IIS7 web application (ASP.NET) where we don't have control over source code, anyone visiting that application from the internet is presented with the login page.
To comply with security audits, ...
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Internet Guest Account in Windows 2008 for permissions
I have seen there's no "Internet Guess Account" user in Windows Server 2008.
I am trying to configure permissions over some folders in a website under ISS 7.5 and I am having troubles as I used that ...
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Setting up IIS in server 2008 to be a user that can print to a local printer
I have a internet site where that I use for invoice creation. A client can login create an invoice/workorder and then the site will print it to a local printer attached to the server for people to ...
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How I can make a hidden directory or a hidden virtual directory to which only certain external users have access?
have a website which permits anonymous access. Now, I want to create a virtual directory that is hidden from all except only certain external users. What are external users? Users on the Internet, ...
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Detailed Errors not working for WCF Service in IIS
If I were to change the web.config file to have errors in it, I only see the standard 500 - Internal Server Page.
Despite setting the Error Pages mode to Detailed, I can't see a detailed error ...
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IIS “localhost” subdomain
I have an IIS7.5 server (also running SQL Server) which has a server name of (say) dc-db.
On this server, my IIS default site runs correctly on http://localhost and http://dc-db
I want to load on a ...
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Two different sites, same IP, same top-level domain, on IIS 7.5 — one works and the other displays HTTP 404 error
I'm running a Windows 2008 R2 box with IIS 7.5 as the web server.
On IIS, I have two websites: mysubsite1.mysite.com and mysubsite2.mysite.com. There is only one IP on the server and both sites ...
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Why are only certain settings syncing in IIS Shared Configuration?
I have 2 Windows 2008 R2 machines running IIS using a shared configuration file on a network share. This works fine for the most part. However, it seems that certain settings do not sync to the other ...
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IIS 7.5 Missing Authorization Header
I have a website running an ISAPI filter providing SSO functionality, as well as anonymous & basic authentication.
The ISAPI filter populates the "Authorization" header of each request with basic ...
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WebDav Authentication Issues
I've been trying to set up Webdav for one of our clients using IIS 7 on their 2008 x64 server, I've also been using my desktop as a testbed, running IIS 7.5.
So far I have been able to get windows ...
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IIS 7 backup to remote server
Im looking for a command/script to take backup of IIS 7/7.5 settings on a server and save it to another remote server.
Presently we have a few servers with IIS 6 and we directly save the metabase ...
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single point of failure in IIS Web Farm Framework setting?
ASP.NET WEB API
Windows Server 2008 R2/IIS 7.5/Web Farm Framework 2.5
I am planning to deploy application across 4 web servers.
Should i use shared content/configuration using DFS among web servers ...
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Adding fowarders with IIS over windows
Is it possible to add a forwarder using IIS on Windows?
I know it can be done with cPanel but i'm not sure if it can be done on Windows.
I am trying to run an email piping system.
Thanks.
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IIS 7 Determine popular / commonly used URL
I'm trying to find the right performance counter in IIS 7 which would tell me what the most commonly requested URL is, but I think I may be looking in the wrong place. How would I go about finding ...
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IIS7 returning 400 bad request on GET request
i have setup farm on IIS7. When i sent long length get request it gets HTTP 400 error from IIS. The lenght of query string is from 50 to 8192 chars. The length value of paramters in query string is ...
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IIS currently on 15 minutes to load localhost [closed]
Well the title says it... Currently my local IIS 7.5 has taken 15 minutes to load the webpage (just seems to be on this one website) and it's still not even past "Waiting for localhost".
As this ...
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Generic 500 error by MVC3 app on IIS 7.5
I'm trying to deploy an MVC3 app on IIS7.5. But loading the page gives a "Server Error in '/' Application." message, with no more specific information about what went wrong.
Now my first idea was to ...
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Can I prevent IIS from recycling if /bin changes?
IIS recycles an ASP.net Application Pool automatically whenever either the /bin folder or the web.config file changes.
Is there a way to disable that feature? This is IIS 7.5 running in Integrated ...
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Should the server and web site IP addresses be the same?
We are running Windows Server 2008 R2 in a virtual, public facing environment. The server was provisioned with one IP address, which I, the developer, have used as the default IP address for an IIS ...
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How to configure ARR - Application Request Routing - to run both as web server and as as a gateway or proxy?
I have this IIS7.5 with ARR installed on and configured as a reverse proxy to another server which is running IIS7.
On this IIS7.5 I have ASP.NET 4 applications and simple websites installed.
Since ...
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Hosting IIS7 application from one server on another
There are 2 IIS7 servers behind a firewall.
I do not have control over this firewall, and I cannot ask for configuration.
The server IIS7-1:
I have full control on this server.
Is behind the firewall ...
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What is the IIS application pool size used for? Why is it important?
I have had a request come through to increase the pool size in IIS which I assume to be the application pool size.
I have attempted to search for more information regarding what the pool size is, ...
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IIS 7 - Provisioning portal [closed]
I am wanting to setup our production IIS environments with a provisioning portal to ensure that deployment staff always setup sites in a uniform configuration, and that they don't actually have remote ...
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IIS Module Inheritance
I am trying to setup an IIS site that has both a public side and a private side. The public side uses anonymous authentication, while the private side uses a custom authentication module that I ...
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Extract Distinct restful MVC routes from IIS logs
This is a cross post from StackOverflow that after some consideration I believe can be asked here (not getting anything on SO).
My shop is using MVC3/FUBU on IIS 7. I recently put something into ...
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Set up iis7.5 to deny connections outside of LAN for certain folder
Im setting up a combined website and extranet currently, they both read from the same database on the same server as the site is hosted on. The reason being that the website is fed from the data that ...
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Single IP, Multiple SSL Certs, NOT using wildcard, TLS on IIS 7 possible?
We host many sites with domains on a single IP ie. www.domain1.com, www.domain2.com. We want to secure /admin using SSL. Historically each SSL cert needs a unique IP address. These are small sites and ...
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ASP.MVC website production server configuration best practice
When creating a new website on a production windows 2008 r2 server which requires connection to SQL Express should I create a custom identity for the application to run under or leave it as ...
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Multiple instances of a web site on a single server - upgrade one at a time
I would like to host a single physical machine two copies of the same very site to minimize downtime during upgrades.
I think I could put a load balancer in front of the machine, assign two IPs to ...
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Change to RS 2008R2 configuration stopped IIS site receiving traffic through load balancer (and its still not working after backing it out)
Background
We are testing a pair of Windows 2008 R2 (IIS 7.5) web servers in conjunction with a hardware load balancer (external device) that splits port 80 traffic coming into a Virtual IP between ...
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Preventing hot linking to images outside of specific domains on IIS7/IIS7.5
I have a series of sites that consists of a (1) public site, (2) administrative CMS and (3) image repository.
This question is specific to the image repository.
I want to access any images from any ...
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Enabling remote connections to IIS 7.x Management Service by using Powershell
Is it possible to execute the "Enable Remote Connections" step from this instructions ("Remote Administration for IIS Manager") using Powershell?
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server response tags
if a server response header is added to a config file of a site, does it display in IIS 7 as a server response header?
I am having a problem where a no index response header (tag) is repeatedly being ...
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Installing IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 Home Basic edition [closed]
By default the Home Basic edition of Windows 7 does not include IIS 7.5.
Is there any way to install IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 Home Basic?
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Windows 2008 + IIS + Backup folder permissions or script to view all folders with X permissions?
I know how to backup IIS 7 configuration, but unaware of a way to backup which folder requires write permissions.
If a server was to go down and I needed to restore, I could restore the config and ...
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How can I switch the default binding on IIS 7.5 programatically without it shutting down?
We have a fleet of IIS 7.5 servers that manage our hosted product. Each generation of the product gets its own AppPool and its own site. Every generation is bound to thegeneration.oursite.com, plus ...
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ASP.NET MVC, IIS 7.5 - Losing Sessions Across Servers (Load Balanced)
We have a site running on 3 web nodes. We are using SQL Server session storage.
We recently added two more only to find that users' sessions are lost when they are sent to one of those machines.
We ...
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IIS 7.5 Not Compressing Javascript: NO_MATCHING_CONTENT_TYPE
I have IIS 7.5 set to compress all static files (the default), yet it does not compress .js (javascript) files. When I turn on failed request tracing for compression, the error I get for the ...
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Migrate an IIS 7 website from one server to IIS 7.5 on another
We have an IIS 7 website running on our live server and are in the process of setting up a new development server which has IIS 7.5 running. Is there any easy fast way to take the IIS 7 website and ...
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Application request routing delete cache impossible when traffic on website
Here is my problem.
My environment uses the ARR module (application request routing) in IIS because I have a server farm. On this farm house is a CMS that generates momentum on this same farm. The ...
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How to configure IIS 7.5 to host multiple websites with the correct F/S permissions
So, heres my scenario:
Dedicated server running Windows 2008 R2
IIS 7.5
Multiple sites using PHP / .NET 4 / Perl / Python
Need to do:
Ensure that the sites are not able to write/create/read ...
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Does IIS 7.5 keep cache?
I'm having some issues with a project of mine I'm doing. Things work smooth on my local machine during development and it works flawless on the test server we got at the company.
The problem Is, ...
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Calling LoadLibraryEx on ISAPI filter failed (v4.0.30319)
I installed .Net 1.1 on a Windows Server 2008 (which already had .NET 4 installed). Afterwards, I started getting the following error:
HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error Calling LoadLibraryEx ...
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What is the alternative of Apache's global Alias in IIS instead of adding a Virtual Directory to every single sites one by one?
In Apache, there's a way I can make phpMyAdmin available globally to all VirtualHosts I set up. In Apache, it looks like this:
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
Alias /phpmyadmin ...
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IIS 7 + Tomcat 7 - how to reach http://localhost:8080/my_app under e.g. http://my_app.local
In brief:
IIS 7 + Apache Tomcat 7 + isapi_redirect.dll:
I have a deployed and working Tomcat-application available under http://localhost:8080/my_app.
I would like to see the same content under ...
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What should I do to make sure that IIS does not recycle my application?
I have a WCF service app hosted in IIS. On startup, it goes and fetches a really expensive (in terms of time and cpu) resource to use as local cache.
Unfortunately, IIS seems to recycle the process ...
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IIS7.5 host headers multiple sites on localhost
I have troubles with iis7 host headers. I'd like to create a domain for managing mysql with phpmyadmin. I tried to configure with these settings without success :S
The browser displays the ...
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Directly editing IIS 7 applicationHost.config configuration file
I know that IIS 7+ now uses XML config files instead of the metabase. I also know that if I edit a web.config file for a given site, IIS automagically detects the changes and implements any ...
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Insufficient Permissions on UNC Path for Physical Path in IIS7
I've got a multi-server setup where Server A is hosting the html files and Server B is running IIS 7.5. I've specified a UNC path for the Physical Path of the website on Server B. When I try to hit ...
