Questions tagged [iis-6]
IIS 6.0 is the version of IIS shipped with Windows Server 2003. It uses an architecture substantially different from IIS 5 and earlier versions, called Worker Process Isolation Mode.
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How to limit the memory used by an application in IIS?
The IIS worker processes are taking lot of memory on our servers. I want to limit the memory each application can use. I am confused whether I should set a limit on Virtual Memory Limit, or Private ...
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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.
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Why does IIS refuse to serve ASP.NET content?
My Windows Server 2003 Std server refuses to server ASP.NET content. It serves regular html just fine but anything .net, even a one line html file with an ASPX extention fails silently.
Things I've ...
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Will a change to the Web.Config file require that I restart IIS?
I've got a WCF component that I wrote in VS 2008 (using .NET framework 3.5) installed on a Windows 2003 Server. I've been having some problems using one of the methods, and in an effort to try and ...
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IIS logs show sc-win32-status=64 but only through some networks
I have an ASP.NET application running on a client server (W2k3, IIS6, .NET 2.0). FWIW, this is a Test instance, it hasn't been moved into Production yet. So it is not running under SSL, load balancing,...
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Chinese Hacker-Bots attempting to exploit our systems 24/7
Our sites our constantly under attack from bots with IP addresses resolving to China, attempting to exploit our systems. While their attacks are proving unsuccessful, they are a constant drain on our ...
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Windows Authentication kept asking for username/password
I am deploying my web application on iis6. I kept receive this "windows security" pop up to enter user name and password.. I have already disabled anonymous user, and checked integrated windows ...
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HTTPS warning: works on desktop, warning on mobile
I installed a wildcard SSL certificate (*.vht.com) for my work and accessing the following website in chrome (or any desktop browser) https://tours.vht.com/fsviewer3/fss2.html works, but when trying ...
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How do I flush IIS Cache without restarting web server?
I have a web site IIS 6.0 that places data into the cache. Sadly it hasn't had a expiration set on it. Is there a way (utility or command) to force this cache to be cleared without rebooting the ...
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Replace old SSL certificate in IIS6
I have to update my SSL certificate for IIS6 on Windows 2003 Server. The vendor (Thawte) tells me that my Certificate Signing Request is non-resignable, which I take to mean that I need to generate a ...
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Self generate SSL Certificate for IIS6?
Hi guys is it possible to create your own SSL cert for IIS 6? If so does anyone have a link to a good guide on the web?
Thank!
John
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IIS6 Virtual SMTP server isn't coming back up automatically after a system restart
I've got a virtual server running Win2008 RC2. I've set up IIS6 with a virtual SMTP server on it to be the mail provider for the websites I'm hosting there. It all works great, but if for some reason ...
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PHP installation on IIS: ISAPI or CGI?
I'm running IIS6 on Windows Server 2k3, and currently have PHP installed as a ISAPI module. We're about to upgrade our environment to PHP 5.3.0, and this made me wonder whether I should stick with the ...
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Error When Installing PHP5 on IIS6
I am trying to install PHP on my Windows Server 2003 machine that is using IIS6.
I followed this guide for installing it, including using the binaries of fastCGI. I think I did everything correctly, ...
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Where can I find Application ID for website in IIS 6?
Where can I find Application ID for website in IIS 6?
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pci compliance on IIS 6.0
I have a website that has just failed a PCI Compliance check - The report said that the site supported weak ciphers. I thought I'd already disabled that by turning off SSL 2.0 on the webservers. (It ...
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Expose IIS SMTP Pickup folder as a file share - bad idea?
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IIS Web Farm
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Windows Server 2008 R2
IIS 7.5
ASP.NET 3.5 and 4.0 web application
Our web app, like many, needs to send mail. Send only, no receiving.
In the past, we've ...
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Record load time of web pages
I have been asked to investigate a way of record how long it a full page request is on our website.
i.e. how long it takes from when a user clicks on a link till the page has finished loading.
Now I'...
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IIS 6.0 vs IIS 7.0
My client has most of the applications in .NET, he is changing his hosting provider, now he is asking for advice whether he should use the Windows 2008 with IIS 7.0 or good old Windows 2003 with IIS 6....
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What might cause a user to receive duplicate emails?
One of our customers is receiving duplicate emails from our application, even though as far as I can tell from the application and SMTP logs, we're only sending it out once.
What are some of the ways ...
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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 ...
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How to debug why w3wp.exe crashes randomly?
On the main production server, the IIS worker process crashes sometimes. From the event viewer I get the following information.
Faulting application name: w3wp.exe, version: 7.5.7601.17514, time
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Can an IIS worker process's Virtual Memory use exceed the Private Memory limit?
For example, if I configure the following limits for an Application Pool in the "Recycling" settings:
Virtual Memory: 512Mb
Private Memory: 128Mb - or "used memory" in IIS 6 parlance
Can the process ...
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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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Opening certmgr.msc to display the Machine level certificates
I want to view the certificates installed at the machine level, if I open certmgr.msc.
I am aware that we can open an mmc and app a snap in for certmgr. But I dont want to go that way.
I am aware ...
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HTTP compression in IIS 6.0 causing problems with certain users
We're getting a few sporadic customer calls (less than 0.1% of our users) complaining of not being able to access my company's website - either they get a blank page (if they use IE), or a "Content ...
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Safari users receive a prompt to select certificate when accessing my website
I have an ASP website on IIS6 that is equipped with a SSL certificate from godaddy.
The website requires secure channel (SSL) and is set to IGNORE client certificates.
In ran the SSL checker and the ...
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Moving a site from IIs6 to IIS7.5 [closed]
I need to move a site off of IIS6 (Win Server 2003) and onto IIS7.5 (Win Server 2008) as soon as possible. Preferably tomorrow.
The site itself is a delightful mix of classic asp (vbscript) and one-...
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Is it possible to run IIS7 on Windows Server 2003?
Is it possible to run IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2003?
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Enabling gzip compression in IIS and having it take effect
We've enabled Gzip compression on the server in IIS (IIS6). We've run iisreset. It just doesn't want to take effect. We had this before on another server, and after a little while, it just started ...
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IIS: Can browse to a file, but receive 404 when clicked on to download
I have setup an IIS 6 server to act as a file server. For some of the files, though, clients receive a 404 error.
To diagnose the issue, I enabled directory browsing. I can browse directly to one ...
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IIS6: Web Site presenting the wrong SSL certificate
Consider an IIS6 installation with multiple Web Sites. Each is intended to be a different subdomain with its own cert (not a wildcard cert). Each has their host-header specified properly.
foo.example....
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IIS6 intranet site using integrated authentication fails to load when accessed externally
I've developed a couple of internal sites for my organization that use integrated authentication. Ultimately we want these sites to be accessible externally to users with domain-joined computers. ...
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New Session Failed
We've started to see instances on our Intranet server where for any page the server just responds with the error page 'HTTP/1.1 New Session Failed'. It seems we can fix it by running IISRESET but this ...
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Mass change Microsoft DNS & IIS server settings
I need to change about 100 DNS records and IIS configurations on a Windows 2003 web server. The GUI doesn't accommodate it and the MS command line tools seem incomplete (for example: dnscmd cannot ...
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What is the max number of websites / virtual directories one can host on IIS?
Can someone tell me the maximum number of websites / virtual directories I can host on a single IIS?
Is there's a difference between IIS 6 and IIS 7?
Also what performance and connection limitation ...
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Peer's Certificate has been revoked
I just upgraded our web server with a renewed cert as our current cert expires later this week. When I browse to our site via FF it is throwing this error:
Secure Connection Failed
An error ...
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How do I format a text file for IIS Mailroot Pickup so that it sends an e-mail with attachments?
How do I need to format a text file so that it can be read by an SMTP service to send an e-mail that has an attachment?
We have a server where we are using II6 SMTP to send mail from a Pickup folder. ...
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AWStats and Time Taken to serve the Request
I have several IIS 6 web servers I manage and I turn on the time-taken field in the logs. I use AWStats to generate various reports from the log data. One of my developer counterparts has recently ...
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IIS 6.0 mitigating BEAST
Recently, my PCI assessor informed me that my servers are vulnerable to BEAST and failed me. I did my homework and I want to change our webservers to prefer RC4 ciphers over CBC. I followed every ...
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Rewrite IIS served subdomain with content from other server/port
Our main web server is using IIS 6 and it obviously catches all port 80 traffic and we have another app served on a non-standard port (8443) that is hosted using Apache.
For example:
http://www....
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IIS6 SMTP and TLS on outbound connections
In the options for setting up the SMTP server hosted in IIS, there exists an option to enable TLS on outbound connections which I want. However I also want it to be able to fallback to clear text in ...
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IIS6: How to troubleshoot a 404 error in an ASP.NET application?
I have an ASP.NET application on a Windows Server 2003/IIS6 that refuses to run for some reason (it's the Xerox Centre, if that info helps). It has been working flawlessly before though on this server....
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How to allow access by ip address, with fallback to basic authentication in IIS?
I have a number of sites in IIS that I'd like to allow direct access to people in a certain subnet, then require basic authentication for everyone else.
Here's the exact same functionality I want in ...
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Import IIS6 website configuration into IIS7
I have many websites hosted on IIS6 and I want to migrate them to IIS7. It is enough if the basic configuration (folder, virtual folders inside, hostheaders, ) is migrated. a great part of the ...
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Respond to HTTP OPTIONS with basic auth
We have a web site hosting Office documents behind IIS6 Basic authentication.
IE has an authentication token for basic auth, which it presents to download the file. The user clicks "Open", and then ...
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Elegantly Enforcing SSL in IIS 6.0
I have a website running under IIS which has an SSL certificate applied. We would like to enforce HTTPS usage for the website which is easily done by checking the "Require Secure Channel" box, but ...
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Installing a certificate without the CSR's originating website in IIS 6
It seems the common method for installing a new SSL certificate for a site on IIS 6 is to create a temporary site, generate a CSR with the parameters of the real site, and then fulfill that CSR when ...
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Sites in IIS not available externally
I'm trying to access my IIS test site using the server IP. Internally I have no problems, but externally it tries for a while and then times out.
I've run Shields Up and it shows that there are no ...
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How can I rewrite urls (ala mod_rewrite) for free in IIS 6?
I've got an application I wrote (with cakephp) for the lamp stack and I'm moving it to a windows server. I'm having a lot of trouble with apache for windows (memory and cpu issues) so I would like to ...