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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IIS6 error"The handle is invalid" when closing the IIS Manager mmc
We have a couple of servers that for some reason, show an error dialog when closing out of the IIS Manager. The error gives absolutely no information, and searches on Google and Bing have returned ...
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Caching an Umbraco website running on IIS 7.x with .NET 4.0 on an AWS EC2 instance
What are the available options for caching an Umbraco website on AWS EC2?
So far, we've considered using Varnish but it's not recommended for a production environment. Is there a de-facto HTTP ...
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Enable Windows Authentication on website, allow only some users
I am investigating this problem. I have a CGI application that I publish through a website published in IIS7.
EDIT:
I changed the web.config to use url authorization. This is the web.config of a ...
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On IIS on windows xp what is considered a single connection?
On IIS running on Windows XP what is considered a single connection? If there are only 10 connection allowed on a single computer running windows xp (according to the MSDN website) what is considered ...
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IIS 7.5 virtual directory cannot load assembly which is referenced in the root web.config
I've encountered the following problem with the IIS 7.5.
Under root I have a virtual directory which is setup as application running under classic pipeline.
it looks like this
-root (...
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How to correctly set up DNS with custom name servers and IIS for multiple domains
I just obtained a Windows Server 2008 VPS. Rightly or wrongly I followed instructions from the host to set up custom name servers. So now I have ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com. The are both ...
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IIS7 logging options - Difference between Server and Site level
I am setting up my first IIS 7.5 server and have come unstuck. Is there a difference between the server logging options and site logging options.
I am assuming that the server logging options relate ...
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CDate function error in IIS 6.0, Windows server 2003
We are running .NET 2.0 ASMX web services on Windows 2003 server on IIS 6.0. We have migrated a legacy VB 6.0 application to .NET 2.0 application using VB.NET. CDATE function is used at many places ...
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IIS Redirect Old Site to new site
In IIS we have a website. We are turning this website off. We have redirected all the pages to another server using the redirect. So any hits to example.com will be displayed as example2.com.
We wish ...
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Moving from Shared Hosting to unmanaged VPS - Help setting up DNS / assigning domain name
I currently have an asp.net application on a new VPS. My domain is registered with another register company. From that company, I currently have the domain name server set up to point to a Custom ...
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Tomcat 6 using wrong SSL cert
I have IIS and Tomcat 6 running on the same box, both applications need SSL (on different ports). I have purchased and installed two SSL certs, one for IIS and one for Tomcat. Both certs are using ...
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IIS Redirect to www
I'm using IIS 7 to host a web application. Currently, I have a rule in the web.config that re-directs all traffic to HTTPS, however it doesn't automatically redirect traffic to www which is important ...
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IIS changing enable32BitAppOnWin64 option on one pool affects all pools
If I change the enable32BitAppOnWin64 option on one pool all other pools will change their enable32BitAppOnWin64 option to the same value as the changed one.
I guess this behavior isn't by design. ...
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Access site in vmware from host MAC machine browser issue
I have windows 7 installed in my MAC VmWare.
In windows I have dotNetNuke instalation hosted on iis.
I try to access this iis from MAC browser by typing ip address of my virtual machine:
192.168.x.y
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Scripting IIS7 configuration for ISAPI DLL
First, I'll humbly admit that A.) I'm a programmer and B.) I'm asking this for someone else so I have almost no first hand experience with what I'm asking.
We would like to be able to write an ...
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Will IIS suspend a website when the website is not be accessed for a long time?
I host an asp.net website on an IIS server, and I find that the website will be slow to be displayed when the website has not been accessed for a long time.
Does IIS suspend websites that have not ...
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How can test if a website can work well in local IIS server?
I ordered a VPS on a Microsoft Hyper-V host. I then added my website mysite.com to the new hosting using WebsitePanel.
Before I change DNS to the new hosting, I want to test if the website will work ...
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Enabling POST requests for html files in IIS7
Problem
There have been quite a few other questions about this (in particular, the 405 Method Not Allowed error), but I've yet to find a solution that seems to work.
I have a web application in html ...
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How can I add permissions for the IUSR_Machine account to a remote file share?
I have a web application which I need to grant permissions to a file share that's hosted on another machine in my DMZ. Users are accessing the application anonymously using the IUSR_Machine account ...
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Unable to open AWStats report page in IIS
I have set this up before in linux and its a little different in IIS but I have a conf file that I've modified correctly and when I try to access the report page awstast.pl?config=myconfig its not ...
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VMWare SQL 2008 R2 Windows 7 High memory usage
I have a windows 7 64 bit installed in a VM which runs SQL Server 2008 R2 and IIS7.
The server itself has 12 gigs of memory and is equipped with a dual core intel xeon @ 2.50 GHz.
The problem (I am ...
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IIS and HTTP 401.0 - Unauthorized
I deployed my ASP.NET MVC application to my local IIS (same computer) and I'm getting
HTTP 401.0 - Unauthorized
after accessing the application through the browser.
I'm using forms authetication ...
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No option to create a new website in IIS
If I run inetmgr I can see the IIS MMC and I can also see an IIS Admin service on my computer. Do both of these things mean that IIS is installed?
In the IIS management console, I can only see ...
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Restrict access to website in IIS to a range of IP addresses
I'm configuring a website in IIS6 to restrict access to a customer's IP address range.
I've been given their IP address (81.145.41.114) and an IP range (172.17) which I am meant to allow access to.
I ...
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Does IIS7 have in-built, or available extensions, for responding to scan attempts?
Does IIS7 have an in-built mechanism, or are extensions available, for providing web-application-firewall type behavior?
For example, dozens of successive attempts come in that look like scan ...
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Installing W3SVC on Windows Server 2008 R2
I'm preparing a new Exchange Server 2010 install on Windows Server 2008 R2. I've already installed the Remote Server Administration Tools and its IIS dependencies, although the Exchange Server Setup ...
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Assign two domains to different web servers (Zend Server & IIS) on same machine
I have two sites implemented in one machine. One site is hosted in IIS, and another is in Zend Server. Each site will have a domain, and I have only one IP to assign both.
How can I configure DNS so ...
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Can I have a webserver running IIS and Ruby on Rails on the same port?
I would like to know if Ruby and IIS 7 can live together, using the same 80 port in my webserver.
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Accidentally deleted IIS server role
We have two web servers : nevWeb nevDev. I needed to reinstall IIS on dev and removed it from web instead. This is where our entire intranet is. As of now everything is still accessable but it asked ...
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after formatting iis throws 401.2 on anonymous access
I have a developer environment with two sites configured with anonymous access. Everything was working fine until I migrated to a VM. Now each time I try to enter I get a 401.2 error. I've searched ...
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iis memory limit app pool recycle kills executing requests
I have a WCF service that might grow in memory. I put a memory limit on the private bytes to recycle the app pool after 500m of memory usage. I noticed that my w3wp.exe process can get to 600megs when ...
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Application Pool User Permissions
I've been in the process of updating our web servers recently to use domain accounts for IIS Application Pool identities. I know with IIS7 Microsoft created the idea of the ApplicationPoolIdentity ...
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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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How to verify if my certificate has been installed correctly?
My client sent me a CER file so I installed on my IIS. How do I verify that it has been installed correctly? The purpose of CER file is to access their SSL protocol.
Is there a sample aspx file that ...
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IIS7 Directory Browsing reseting
I have a IIS 7 running where one of the sites is just a bunch of files exposed through Directory Browsing. I can enable it without any problems, but within a few hours the setting resets itself. Any ...
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How to switch between different webservers on same IP based on hostname?
At my place I have 4 servers, each running Win2008r2-WEB running as webserver with all a different kind of server running (TomCat, IIS, Apache, ZendServer), each server also has a different IP-address ...
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What happened to IIS lockdown?
A long time ago before I left the Windows environment, there was such a thing as "IIS lockdown tool" - something that Microsoft provided for free. It was meant to well lock down your IIS instance and ...
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Protecting a webpage with an authentication form
I have created an employee webpage with a lot of company info, links, etc., but I want to protect the page because it contains some confidential company information. I am running IIS7 on Windows ...
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Windows Server traffic monitor that show traffic for each connected IP
I would like to see traffic in bytes of individual users (IP's) in real time. Logging would be good too.
Additionally I would like to see which process (CGI.exe, php script etc) they are connected to ...
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ASP.Net Restart IIS
Long story short -- we have 2 webservers (IIS 6) that run a 3rd party asp.net application. Randomly (so far) they just...stop working. I have an outside check that will tell me when it stops working ...
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How can I make UrlScan test extensionless urls?
If I use UrlScan to block common SQL Injection attempts on asp- and aspx-files, I would do something like this:
[SQLInjection]
AppliesTo=.asp,.aspx
DenyDataSection=SQLInjectionStrings
ScanURL=0
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Running Web.py as an IIS CGI Script
I recently wrote a web.py-based stand alone web service. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the service has to run through IIS. I've heard that it's possible to run web.py as a CGI in IIS, but I'm ...
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Serving images with IIS 7.5
My website has quite a lot (>1M) of different image files.
I have separate subdomain for images. I do not need asp.net for them so I set it not to use .net framework.
Maximum working processes is ...
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monitor iis vhosts bandwidth usage with cacti
I am trying to monitor how much bandwidth is being used by websites(vhosts) on my iis (7.5) machine. on a per site basis. Is their a cacti plugin or configuration guide that i can use to monitor this. ...
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UI to managing specific applicationhost.config
I'm doing some work with IIS Express and it has it's own applicationhost.config.
Is there any UI that I could use to manage that config file without editing the XML directly? I downloaded IIS ...
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Mercurial existing Active Directory integration failing for a new user
We've got an existing Mercurial server running under Windows 2008/IIS that is using Active Directory for authentication.
We have three existing users that have no problems at all with Mercurial. ...
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apache mod_proxy... windows 2008 IIS 7.0 docroot nfs export not working
Gents,
Unfortunately, I've lost any windows knowledge (if i ever had any)...
We have to mount an nfs export to be served from a few IIS domUs.
Our "developers" wrote this beautiful "thing" that ...
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IIS 7.5 basic authentication and Active Directory validation
I'm not an IIS or Active Directory expert by any means so I want to present a scenario here and see if what we want to accomplish is feasible.
We have an application hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2 ...
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IIS stopped logging
IIS 7.5 has stopped logging all traffic for a single site (of a couple of dozen on the same box), and I can't work out why. It stopped logging at exactly midday on Friday last week, and nothing since. ...
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Basic Windows networking questions
Basically I got started looking into this because I got tired of just selecting stuff like NETWORKSERVICE just to make things magically work across our network, and wanted to learn more about what is ...