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.
294
questions
86
votes
8
answers
50k
views
Recommended LogParser queries for IIS monitoring?
As Stack Overflow grows, we're starting to look closely at our IIS logs to identify problem HTTP clients -- things like rogue web spiders, users who have a large page set to refresh every second, ...
- 13.2k
43
votes
5
answers
57k
views
Why use Kerberos instead of NTLM in IIS?
This is something that I've never really been able to answer as well as I like: What is the real advantage of using Kerberos authentication in IIS instead of NTLM?
I've seen a lot of people really ...
- 545
19
votes
2
answers
30k
views
How can I control which IP address IIS7 uses?
In Win2k3, I used httpcfg to tell IIS to listen to specific IP addresses on the server. I want to run Apache with VisualSVN Server on port 80 on another IP address but IIS7 binds to all IP addresses ...
18
votes
11
answers
35k
views
Any freeware IIS log analyzer? [closed]
It would be nice to use ASP.NET, but PHP is ok too, and should be hosted in IIS6.
EDIT: the logs are from our intranet site.
- 1,435
12
votes
6
answers
84k
views
How can I check if my IIS site is using NTLM or Kerberos?
How can I check if my IIS site is using NTLM or Kerberos? And how can I change authentication from Kerberos to NTLM? I'm using IIS 7.5.
- 223
11
votes
3
answers
42k
views
Setup IIS 7.5 with multiple website bindings and SSL?
On IIS 7.5 I am trying to achieve this with two websites:
Default Web Site is bound to:
(blank host header port 80 - http)
(blank host header port 443 - https)
go.example.com
www71.example.com
the ...
- 338
6
votes
5
answers
20k
views
How to Host Multiple Domains / Web Sites on one IIS6 Server
I currently have an IIS6 server that hosts one web site/domain. I am developing another web site (completely separate) that I want to host on this same server. Both domains were purchased from ...
- 289
86
votes
2
answers
214k
views
Best way to redirect all HTTP to HTTPS in IIS
We want ALL sites on our webserver (IIS 10) to enforce SSL (ie redirect HTTP to HTTPS).
We are currently 'Requiring SSL' on each site and setting up a 403 error handler to perform a 302 redirect to ...
- 1,613
85
votes
4
answers
183k
views
Can IIS be configure to forward request to another web server?
I have several web site set up on one IIS 6 server distinguished by Host Header.
However, I wish to have one of the sites served by a Linux / Apache server on my network. Do I need to use a reverse ...
- 1,085
36
votes
2
answers
110k
views
Is IIS SFTP natively supported by Windows?
Does Windows Server 2012 R2 have native SFTP support?
I see a role FTP Server but it doesn't say whether this includes SFTP.
- 361
17
votes
2
answers
36k
views
First request after a while always slow - ASP.NET MVC / IIS 8.5 / Windows Server 2012 R2 VPS
I'm hosting a low-traffic ASP.NET MVC 5 application on a VPS with Windows Server 2012 R2 / IIS 8.5, with 1 GB of RAM.
My problem is that the first request after some time without any requests always ...
- 301
17
votes
2
answers
5k
views
Zero downtime uploads / Rollback in IIS
I'm not sure if this is the right way to ask this question, but here's basically what i'd like to do:
1.) Push a changeset to a site in IIS.
2.) Don't interrupt the users.
3.) Be able to roll back ...
- 419
8
votes
4
answers
49k
views
w3wp.exe hogs memory
On a Small Business Server 2011 installation a whole number of w3wp.exe processes appear to be using a disproportional lot of memory. The SBS out-of-the-box installations comes with a total of 7 sites ...
- 41k
7
votes
6
answers
11k
views
How to install a single SSL certificate for www and non-www
I have purchased an SSL certificate and I should be able to configure IIS 7 to use that certificate for both https://domainname and https://www.domainname
I have looked online but didn't find a ...
- 287
4
votes
3
answers
16k
views
IIS Configuration Synchronization for Web Server Farm?
I'm wondering if there is any good/easy way to get the IIS configurations synchronized?
I'm going to be setting up a pair of IIS Servers with Network Load Balancing. I can get the data files (html, ...
- 2,161
2
votes
1
answer
3k
views
IIS 6 - Setting up 301 redirect for non-www to www for SEO
Someone in the marketing department ran an SEO tool against our public website and found that about half of the links to our website go to www.mycompany.com, and half go to mycompany.com. Both of ...
- 23
97
votes
4
answers
113k
views
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 ...
- 2,897
55
votes
11
answers
133k
views
IIS7: can't set host name on site with SSL cert and port 443
Consider a Win 2008 SP2 machine with IIS7. The task is to apply a certificate and host name to the one and only Site on this machine. The site's host headers need to be abc.123.example.com
The first ...
- 4,437
53
votes
8
answers
100k
views
On IIS, how do I patch the SSL 3.0 POODLE vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)?
How do I patch CVE-2014-3566 on a Windows Server 2012 system running IIS?
Is there a patch in Windows Update, or do I have to do a registry change to disable SSL 3.0?
- 673
51
votes
7
answers
146k
views
How to remove IIS/ASP.NET Response Headers
I have a couple IIS/6.0 servers that security is asking me to remove a couple of response headers that are sent to client browsers on requests. They are concerned about divulging platform information ...
- 683
34
votes
4
answers
71k
views
What is muieblackcat?
I've recently installed ELMAH on a small .NET MVC site and I keep receiving error reports
System.Web.HttpException: A public action method 'muieblackcat' was not found on controller...
This is ...
- 341
24
votes
8
answers
171k
views
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 ...
- 695
24
votes
6
answers
47k
views
How can I keep IIS log files cleaned up regularly?
I just discovered that IIS builds up logs indefinitely and there don't appear to be any IIS settings that will automatically clean out old log files. What is the best way to keep my IIS logs under ...
- 2,123
23
votes
3
answers
116k
views
What are the IUSR and IWAM accounts for in IIS?
I'm looking for a good explanation of the IUSR and IWAM accounts used by IIS to help me better configure our hosting environment:
Why are they there?
What's the difference between them?
Do the names ...
- 593
21
votes
1
answer
44k
views
IIS FTP Server works locally, but cannot connect from remote
I'm trying to setup an FTP server on Windows 2008 Server. I can connect locally:
C:\>ftp localhost
Connected to WebHead1
220 Microsoft FTP Service
However, when I try to connect from remote, it ...
- 965
11
votes
5
answers
46k
views
Are there any connection limits on Windows 7 IIS v7.5?
My current development machine is Windows XP, and I use a modified tcpip.sys to allow me to exceed the 10 connection limit built in to IIS. I know that Vista's IIS has the same limit.
Can anyone ...
- 423
11
votes
1
answer
32k
views
How come when I add IIS_IUSRS RW access to a folder, it doesn't automatically allow ISUR RW access?
I'm using IIS7 (Windows Server 2008 x64) and I have a website setup using anonymous authentication. The anon user identity is configured as IUSR. The application writes files to a folder and I'm ...
joho0
10
votes
6
answers
26k
views
IIS Can't Serve Certain File Extension
I'm serving .JSON files, but even though the file exist, IIS keeps throwing 404 error when any of the file is accessed. I tried renaming one of the file to .JS, and it works.
Any pointer what setting ...
- 587
9
votes
1
answer
40k
views
IIS URL Rewrite Module Query String Parameters
Is it possible to use URL Rewrite to provide more complex query string functionality than the "Append query string" checkbox that it has? Specifically, is it possible to specify the keys for certain ...
- 511
9
votes
2
answers
52k
views
Configure HAProxy to include host headers for different backends
I am exploring the use of HAProxy as a balancer in front of a set of web apis that run on IIS.
node1.myapp.mycompany.com
node2.myapp.mycomapny.com
We are currently using Host Headers to correctly ...
- 3,251
8
votes
4
answers
72k
views
How do you configure IIS 7 to use a subdirectory as the default document?
So I have a website running on a discount asp.net account, and I put an asp.net mvc app in a subdirectory. If my url is 'www.website.com' and my app is in directory 'sample', then 'www.website.com/...
- 279
7
votes
3
answers
7k
views
redirect to domain without www
I use IIS7. how do i config it so that if the user types www.serverfault.com it redirects to serverfault.com like on this site?
newBEE
6
votes
4
answers
9k
views
IIS7 web farm - local or shared content?
We're setting up an IIS7 web farm with two servers. Should each server have its own local copy of the content, or should they pull content directly from a UNC share? What are the pros and cons of each ...
- 409
6
votes
1
answer
16k
views
IIS Web Management Service not working Error 2147483640
I just installed the Management Service role and the service will not start. Google is no help as this seems to be some really rare error. I am hoping someone can help though.
This is on IIS 7.5 on ...
- 151
4
votes
2
answers
11k
views
What steps to take when trying to resolve unresponsive/hung/broken IIS web site?
What steps do you take when you find an IIS web site is not responding?
I might try to first telnet to the specified port, then check web site binding and authentication, and at last restart it.
I ...
- 167
4
votes
1
answer
11k
views
IIS 7 - Multiple IIS Sites pointed at same directory. How is this accomplished?
I need to point two IIS sites at the same folder on the server.
I need to do this because I need different IP-restrictions for the domain name bound to IIS-Site-B vs. IIS-Site-A (which is completely ...
- 1,133
4
votes
1
answer
10k
views
Ignoring HTTP 1.0 requests in IIS
Is there a way to ignore HTTP 1.0 requests in IIS (7.0)? I don't see any reason to accept requests that are not HTTP 1.1.
- 286
3
votes
1
answer
4k
views
Issues disabling SSL 2.0 in IIS 6
I have reviewed both related posts on this site:
How do I disable SSL 2.0 support on IIS?
How to disable SSL 2.0 on IIS 7.5?
The issue I am having is that I have implemented the registry change, ...
- 611
2
votes
1
answer
3k
views
How to Deploy an ASP.NET Web API- and Browser-based Application to a Production Environment [closed]
(Please forgive if this is posted in an incorrect forum. We didn’t know exactly where to post it.)
We have an ASP.NET Web API single page application - a browser-based app running in IIS to serve up ...
- 197
2
votes
1
answer
15k
views
Blocking requests from specific IPs using IIS Rewrite module
I'm trying to block a range of IP that is sending tons of spam to my blog. I can't use the solution described here because it's a shared hosting and I can't change anything to the server configuration....
- 161
2
votes
3
answers
11k
views
IIS Windows Authentication not working in Internet Explorer via host name; works via IP
I'm trying to get a new Windows Server 2003 box working to host an ASP.NET application that uses Windows Authentication.
Here's some info:
IIS Anonymous Access is diabled
IIS Integrated Windows ...
- 135
2
votes
1
answer
2k
views
How to find out why IIS application pool is recycling due to application pool property changes
My application pool is recycling when I don't want it to be (note I've already disabled the time-based & inactivity-based recycling).
I see in the event log a 5080 event:
The worker ...
- 131
1
vote
2
answers
4k
views
"<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/...
- 305
1
vote
3
answers
30k
views
Is it possible to set the default web site to redirect to a virtual directory in IIS [duplicate]
Can you set up a website to make a default redirect to a virtual directory?
I tried to do this but it overrode every single website in my setup to that redirect.
I want to be able to open http://...
- 680
1
vote
2
answers
382
views
How to have a certificate which works with both example.com and subdomain.example.com in IIS?
I have an IIS server hosting several websites, like:
example.com
subdomain1.example.com
subdomain2.example.com
I want those websites to be able to use SSL.
If I install the certificate *.example....
- 2,315
1
vote
0
answers
537
views
Trying to understand reverse-proxying using nginx and Windows IIS
So we had a contractor set up nginx on an Azure-based Windows 2016 server which we wound up for the purpose. Now I'm trying to get my head around how to use it (and, ultimately, to fold back into our ...
- 246
1
vote
2
answers
1k
views
IIS SMTP server (Installed on local server) in parallel to Google Apps
I am currently using free version of Google Apps for hosting my email.It works great for my official mails my email on Google is [email protected].
In addition I'm sending out high volume mails (...
- 145
1
vote
1
answer
3k
views
Deploying ASP.NET MVC to Windows Server 2003
I have a problem with an MVC 2 website on Windows Server 2003 running IIS 6. It is externally hosted, but we have a 2003 server internally for testing. The internal server runs the website fine, the ...
1
vote
2
answers
12k
views
Uninstall IIS on Windows 7
I've just rebuilt my development machine and installed IIS. I then installed the Web Deployment tool and used this to restore my previously-backed-up websites to the clean machine. Unfortunately the ...
- 730
0
votes
2
answers
17k
views
Nginx reverse proxy - passthrough basic authenication
I am trying to setup nginx as a reverse rpoxy server in front off several IIS web servers who are authenticating using Basic authentication.
(note - this is not the same as nginx providing the auth ...
- 428