Questions tagged [iis]
IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Microsoft's Windows Server operating systems. This is a generic tag. Wherever possible please use a *version-specific* tag, such as [iis-7], [iis-7.5], etc.
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Problem viewing Active Directory users from external server
I'm trying to set up a website on an external web server (IIS 6 on Win 2k3) such that:
Anonymous access is denied
Users have to log in with their Active Directory username / password
I can grant ...
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32bit or 64bit PHP on 64bit capable processor/64-bit Windows Server 2008/IIS7
I plan to install PHP on a system running on AMD Opteron/Windows Server 2008/IIS7. According to the device manager the OS is a 64-bit Operating System. So which flavor of PHP should I install on it. ...
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32bit dll not loading with Enable 32 Bit Applications on IIS 7.5
I have a MVC 3 Web Site referencing a 32 bit DLL. The OS is Windows 2008 R2 x64. The website is in the ASP.NET 4 App Pool. I have turned on Enable32Bit but it doesn't work. I get a Bad Image Exception ...
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Starting Up SQL Server 2008 in IIS
I'm a complete noob at windows servers and IIS so please be patient with me.
I originally set up a website using php/mysql. I have the website running PHP with FastCGI through IIS already, but the ...
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Permissions issue with virtual directory to UNC path
I have a virtual directory in my site (test environment). It is a UNC share which is also used as a public FTP.
It is configured to connect as a domain admin account and "Test settings" says ...
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How to locally define how a URL is resolved in Windows/IIS
I know that there is a way to make any defined URL resolve to a different URL, but I can't remember how or where to define this setting.
I understand this is ambiguous, so consider the following ...
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How to resolve FTP Error “Failed to retrieve directory listing” for Administrator account in IIS 7.5
Using my administrator account, I FTP connected to my IIS 7.5 FTP Site with FileZilla. I was able to successfully upload a file, but I keep getting a "Failed to retrieve directory listing" in ...
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What is the purpose of session.key in C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\Icorn
The size of the C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\Icorn\session.key file (and a similar one, session.key.bk) has gone beyond 8 GB. I want to free up space on this server.
What can I do to safely reclaim ...
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Is it safe to kill a specific w3wp (IIS Worker) process in Task Manager on IIS 7, Windows 2008 Server?
There is a Win 2008 server with a few website, and sometimes an image conversion website consumes huge amounts of RAM. Is it generally safe (though not a good idea) to just kill that w3wp process (IIS ...
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How do I count successful Domain User Authentication (Log Ins) with LogParser
I need to be able to count only successful authentication attemtps for our IIS based Web Portal. All users come from the same IP Address. Is there something specific in the w3c logs to look for in ...
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Is there an IIS 7.5 Web Site View that looks anything like IIS 6 Web Site Properties?
Is there an IIS 7.5 Web Site View that looks anything like the IIS 6 Web Site Properties view? I know where everything is in IIS6 (host headers, redirections, default filename etc.), but the view in ...
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HTTPS subdomain mistakenly redirected to domain
We have a web server running with two sites, I will call them domain.com and test.domain.com. We have an SSL certificate installed on the domain.com site, that covers both www.domain.com and domain....
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Disabling IIS 7.5 server error response for 5xx and 4xx HTTP status codes
Is there any way to prevent IIS from automatically overriding the output of a web app that is returning a status code in the 500 or 400 range?
Just as an example, in ColdFusion I can create the ...
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Why IIS 6 gives me error message on each asp request?
I have Windows Server 2003 with IIS6. Every time I request something that ends with .asp server returns a 404 error, but not a usual one, the error response is as follows:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
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Microsoft Web Farm Framework failing due to lack of hard drive space
I have Microsoft Web Farm Framework setup in a production environment and it seems to work well (better than keeping the servers in sync manually) except that it is causing an excessive number of log ...
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where is information about virtual directories stored?
Server hosted somewhere on internet just broke down, so guys from IT support decided to install Linux temporarily so we can access file system in order to do backup. We have there some web services ...
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Determining why IIS 6.0 Rapid-Fail Protection occurred
We had an IIS 6.0 Rapid-Fail Protection occur during testing of our ASP.NET web application. This issue appeared to be introduced by code that I wrote.
How do we determine what caused it? There is ...
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Subdomain redirects to a given virtual directory in IIS
I have a domain where I have created several subdomains. I manage to alter the DNS records, so a given subdomain redirects to a different server. For example?
app.domain.com -> 123.45.66.11
Now,...
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How to set permissions for ASP.NET apps to run under IIS6 with Windows Authentication but without being "world-readable"
We have a departmental web server running Server 2003, IIS 6, and SQL Server Express. IIS is configured for Windows Authentication only and all the App Pools are configured to use the Network Service ...
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What solution are you using for IIS 7.5 logging?
I'm looking for some recommended configurations for IIS (7.5) logging for a reasonably high-traffic web-farm? Currently generating approx 500MB uncompressed logs on each of 4 web servers daily.
ODBC ...
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Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) application + ADFS 2.0 on Classic pipeline mode - Is it possible?
I have a working test application that uses Windows Idendity Foundation SDK and ADFS 2.0 for authentication, which runs on Windows Server 2008 R2, IIS 7.5, Integrated managed pipeline application pool ...
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Host ASP.NET Web Application on local Machine
Please excuse me if this is very basic.
My query is about hosting a .net web application on a server. Say, I create a small web application and I deploy this application in my home machine (which ...
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how to scale a web application - common patterns
consider iis and mssql on one hand and apache and mysql on another. is it the same tactic when scaling iis and apache?
i got the basic scaling thing - separate web tier and db tier, and then db ...
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How to setup IIS to perform basic http authentication against MS SQL database?
how to setup IIS to perform basic http authentication against MS SQL database (and not to use Windows domain)
The existing WS-Federated security is mapped to MS SQL database. We'd like to migrate to ...
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Single Sign-on for Intranet WordPress using OpenID (or OAuth), IIS, Integrated Windows Authentication, Active Directory?
Is it possible to have single sign-on for intranet WordPress sites by using OpenID (or OAuth), IIS, Integrated Windows Authentication, Active Directory?
I'd like to have Active Directory users ...
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IIS Virtual Directory pointing to a local path vs UNC path
I'm really stuck with the following and would appreciate any feedback.
I have a Silverlight application that uses Expression Encoder to play video files.
When I deploy the source files to a local ...
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How do I convert this mod_rewite rule to IIS7 UrlRewrite
Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [L]
Is what i would use in Apache mod rewite to make it so index.html is actually index.php
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track iis work process resets
Is there any way to know if IIS resets the app pool/worker process, in IIS 6?
We're seeing funny results in our web application, and I think it has to do with sessions being cleared because the work ...
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How do I tell if IIS allows for authentication to downgrade from Kerberos to NTLM v1?
It is my understanding that authenticating to IIS with Kerberos will, by default, allow for the authentication to downgrade to NTLM v2 or NTLM v1 if the client cannot handle Kerberos. In my case I ...
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Import .htaccess rules in IIS using command line
Is it possible to import /convert the .htaccess file to web.config using command line ( NOT using GUI) and how ?
If it is not directly possible is there any workaround for this ?
note : http://learn....
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IIS 6 - CPU throttling on application pools
So after a recent DDoS attack on one our sites that took down all sites on that server Ive started looking into ways to stop this being such an impact on all sites. If the site under DDoS goes down, ...
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IIS 7.5 using Classic ASP converts a boolean value to a string in the local language
I have a Classic ASP application running on a workstation with a Danish version of Windows 7 with IIS 7.5.
The problem: When the application writes a boolean as a string, it will write "True" or "...
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Hosting and application on local IIS
I have an application which I can access from my own computer using the following url:
http://188.24.7.228/PetitionsApp/
But this fails if I try to access it from other computers. Is there a setting ...
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Is there a way to make my local AppCmd.exe to refer to a remote server?
I need to remotely administrate IIS via command-line. Is there a way to make my local AppCmd.exe refer to a remote server? So that every command I pass to AppCmd.exe would be executed in another ...
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IIS, application domains, pools, processes and threads, high level understand
Was hoping if someone could be all these things into perpective for me.
This is to better understand operatig systems in general, but also specifically how it applies to IIS.
How to application ...
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IIS v6.0 SMTP Default 'From' Address
we have an SMTP server in IIS 6.0 which has the default 'from' address in the following format:
[email protected]
it is a basic setup. we have a .net application using this SMTP server as needed ...
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Running procdump and logging off the server
We are getting some errors in IIS and we need to use procdump to capture the memory dump at the time of the crash. But I found that when the user logs out of the system the procdump also stops ...
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Can we use wildcards with NETSH HTTP ADD URLACL in Windows 7 / 2008r2?
i'm using IIS7 express and therefore need to unblock port 80 if I wish to hit the website locally and on the default http port. To do this, i use ..
netsh http add urlacl url=http://my.custom....
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Wordrpress with PHP 5.3
I'm trying to install Wordpress 3.1 on PHP 5.3 (under IIS 7.5), but before getting to the configuration page it's throwing this error:
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension ...
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Redirecting to other internal servers based on sub domain
Here is my situation
home network, windows machines, 1 external facing IP address (that allows port 80)
1 windows home server always on machine, planning on upgrading to WHS 2011 soon.
several IP ...
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Howto separately manage IIS permissions?
Question:
I need to give a user (developer) permission to
restart IIS
add applications
copy websites to inetput/wwwroot
change IIS settings
The user does and may NOT have admin rights, as this ...
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How do I set Application Configuration Mappings in IIS6 from the command line?
I am rolling out .NET 4 to around 60 servers, and I need register the .mvc extension to run with ASP.NET on each server after the install.
Does anyone know a way to do this from the command line? Is ...
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where can i find detailed docs for IIS server event id's with their description?
i have been googling for hours now and cant find a thing. There are plenty of articles/blogposts/forum_articles (from MSDN) on some specific events and their resolution etc ; but i simply cant find a ...
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Anonymous Authentication <anonymousAuthentication> / 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied
I am using windows server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5
I deployed my app to that server for the first time and I got the following error;
403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.
You do not have permission ...
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Extract statistics from IIS log
Is there a simple way to find the number of calls to a specific page from the IIS log?
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IIS 7.5 Unable to use self signed certificate on a per web site basis for https binding sharing port 443
I'm using SelfSSL7 to create a self signed certificate in IIS 7.5(Win Server 2K8 R2). I have 2 sites in IIS ( the default site and a test site). I ran the following to create the cert.
SelfSSL7.exe /...
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Converting WMI from vbscript to powershell
I'm trying to follow the guides for accessing IIS 6 using WMI but I'm having trouble working out how to translate the Get method of SWbemServices as Get-WmiObject doesn't seem to use the same path ...
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IIS Basic Authorization ala .htaccess/.htpasswd in apache
How do I implement the protection of the pages (asp.net mvc app), so when I hit the home page or any other pages within the application I get a login dialog popup in the browser
I'm looking for ...
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Exposing a website externally
I got asked to set up a website that could be accessed externally in IIS.
We have a web server that has a website currently available externally on it. It sits under an "External Website" Site in IIS....
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"<handler> scriptProcessor could not be found in <fastCGI> application configuration" when accessing PHP script in subfolder
I have a configuration problem with php on IIS 7.5.
It is a practically fresh install made with the MS Web PI on Win7.
I created a simple php testpage. It works in the root level http://localhost/...