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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Windows 2003 Server, Parallels, Plesk, Php5 and mail()
I'm running Parallels with Windows 2003 Server Plesk on my VPS and I can't send mails via mail()
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox ...
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What defines IIS IP Address for WebSites
Hey guys, I know this is a noob question, but I'm having trouble finding a simple, clear answer:
In a default install of MS Server 2003, what defines how many IP address you have available for ...
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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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iis and php max execution time error
First of all I'm running a VPS with Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0 and Plesk
These are the settings from php.ini
max_execution_time = 300 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
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IISAdmin won't start, error 0x80090006 - how to troubleshoot further?
A while back my Windows Server 2003 machine hung up and I needed to force-reboot by power-cycling it. When it was restarting it ran chkdsk, and chkdsk reported some problems.
Since then IISAdmin has ...
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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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Start IIS 6.0 application pool automatically
I read on MSDN that you can configure the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) to automatically start an application pool when the application pool is created or when IIS is started. This only ...
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IIS6 logging is overloading my servers
We have a major issue with our load balance web servers. If we have IIS logging turned on for our biggest websites, it bogs the servers down so much that most of our requests timeout. As soon as I ...
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Flexwiki Install Instructions
In another Question many users recommend FlexWiki for Network Documentation. FlexWiki.com appears to be down. I was able to download the latest package from sourceforge.net, but cannot find ...
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IIS logging troubleshooting
We've got an IIS server that hosts about a dozen small websites. A couple of the websites do not log activity. We've gone into the IIS Admin console and each website is configured to log daily into ...
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Windows 2003 Server And Wordpress
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I own a VPS hosting on a Windows 2003 Server.I am planning on moving the hosting service of a domain that I own "thecitybear.com" on to this server. The site uses a wordpress platform. I have ...
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Getting HTTP Compression (GZip) to work with URL Routing on IIS 6
I haven't seen any questions specifically addressing this specific issue.
When URL Routing is used, The Request goes into IIS and then is routed to the Aspx Page. For example, a site: www.site.com/...
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Problem running PHP on IIS6
I have used the Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta to install php on IIS6.
I tried this first on a test server with success.
When I did this on the production server and browse to a test php file, I ...
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Customized permission for IIS6 websites
Is it possible to allow a user (or group of users) permission to view and edit websites settings using the IIS Manager snap-in without giving them administrative privileges on the Windows 2003 server? ...
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IIS 6.0 application pool stop issue
In my IIS log, I found warning level event ID 1013, which says the stop time exceeds expected stop time for worker process of a specific web application.
My question is, how could I know or track ...
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IIS best admin tools [closed]
I'm trying to manage various IIS sites and I wanted to know how much memory, net and CPU resources is consuming each IIS app.
Also I would want to know if is any app handling db connection dirtly, I ...
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IIS6 Wildcard mapping lost
I'm trying to configure IIS6 with wildcard mappings for an ASP.Net MVC application, so I found this tutorial, however, checking the mappings association,
mappings image
I checked my IIS6 Manager is ...
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IIS6 - Classic ASP - Comma to point
There are some classic asp pages we are serving, which require a float to be like 1.5 instead of 1,5. So the comma should be a point.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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HTTP 401.1 all of the sudden after a server reboot
I am running SQL Server CE replication on a web server and recently replications have been failing. When I try to visit the diag utility (http://webaddress/Replication/SqlCeSa30.dll?Diag I get an ...
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Load balanced IIS Servers with ASP.NET InProc Session
Has anyone configured IIS 6.0 loadbalancing on win 2003 servers with ASP.NET app using InProc Sessions. How can this be achieved?
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IIS 6 support for IP Tunneling
Does IIS 6 inherently support IP tunneling? I heard from a consulting group that it does not but I find that hard to believe.
If not, is there a standard way to support IP tunneling using third-...
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How many worker processes should I allocate for an Application Pool in IIS?
I've got a Python application that I'm serving via IIS using ISAPI-WSGI. I've got it in its own application pool so that I can restart the Python interpreter whenever I want without disturbing other ...
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Restoring II6 server after a hardware failure
We had an array lose 3 drives on an IIS6 server. We now have the drives runing...for now. What's the best path to restoring the server to functionality. We have a backup of system state and the ...
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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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Why do passwords and ACL entries change within IIS 6.0 MetaBase.xml?
I am attempting to monitor changes to IIS server configuration with TripWire, and have noticed the IIS 6.0 MetaBase.xml file is frequently changed. I understand that IIS frequently backs up the ...
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how to add a virtual directory on a remote machine IIS 6
We have a build script to add a Virtual Directory to an existing website running on the same server.
it works fine,
is it possible to add a virtual directory to a remote machine? which the user has ...
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How to Limit FTP Ports when using IIS6 FTP Service on Alternate FTP Port?
I would like to set up an FTP service on a non-standard port (i.e. not 21) using the FTP service in IIS 6 on a Windows 2008 Server.
I have set it up and tested it locally - it all works.
However I ...
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Integrated Authentication in IIS 6 from the command line
In deploying a new version of our ASP.NET application, we need to set the authentication method for a particular page to be "Integrated only." We can do this from the IIS managment console, but would ...
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Pipe incoming email to a script on Windows IIS SMTP?
I have a web application running on Windows IIS. This app has a database where each item has a unique key (1, 2, 3...), and a list of email addresses (among other things).
I would like users to send ...
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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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Large files on C: drive under a directory called PC Health?
I'm running a website on a Windows Server 2003 machine, though I disabled IIS Log entirely, My C:\ Drive continues growing in a very weird way. I found a directory with almost 30 GB of space; this ...
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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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Network card enabled but not working
I have a strange behavior on one of my windows2003/IIS6 servers.
I have two network cards on it, let's call card A the card which connects the server with the internet, and let's call card B the card ...
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File in use when deploying .NET code in IIS6
Sometimes when deploying .NET code in IIS6 I can't rename or delete the .NET application folder because it's in use. The only thing that seems to fix it is stopping the w3svc service, doing what I ...
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Is there any way to find out how many hits you receive from bots, on an IIS6 site? [closed]
Is there any way to figure out how many bots (even if it's just one type of bot) that hits our site, on a daily, weekly and monthly average?
we have the standard IIS6 web site logs in lots of files.
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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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IIS Compression: Enable GZIP and DEFLATE using Powershell
How does one do the following things with IIS 5.1/6.0 using PowerShell:
Enable HTTP Compression
Set GZIP and DEFLATE file extensions
Enable Dynamic and Static compression for GZIP and DEFLATE
Set the ...
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Limiting Connections Per IP in IIS 6
I would like to limit the amount of connections per IP in IIS 6. This does not seem to be possible in IIS. Does anyone know of any solutions that would allow such a setting?
Thanks
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SQL Server max connection settings
On a machine that is running IIS 6.0 and SQL Server 2005, where are the different locations that can limit the max number of database connections?
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Issues moving an IIS site from w2k to w2k3
Old server is windows 2000, and the original setup guy's answer to pretty much everything was C:\ --> Everyone --> Full Control. However, there WAS a setup doc, that seemed to work up to a point.
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Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred when trying to start an IIS6 website
I'm trying to start an IIS website & I keep getting the error
Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred
Investigating in the system log displays this error
The service could not bind instance 1. ...
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Is it possible to configure IIS6 to use a custom 404 without the mmc snapin
I have FTP access to a server and I'd like to have custom 404 pages. I don't have access to the management console or any admin rights on the server whatsoever.
I understand that apache can use ....
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How do I disable SSL 2.0 support on IIS?
I need to disable SSL 2.0 support on a Windows Server 2003 server (running IIS 6.0). Specifically, I'd like to be able to disable on a single website. Is this possible or do I have to disable it ...
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Is there an alternative console for administering websites in IIS6?
I've used many web site hosting services in the past and I've grown very comfortable with the web based site administration tools. Does anyone have a recomendation for a replacement for IIS Managment ...
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How to setup a IIS6 webserver for hosting development projects?
I am looking for a way to configuire a development webserver. My main goal is to be able to provide internal personel with access to these development websites for review and testing? I'm not sure if ...
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Issue with COM+DLL in IIS 6.0 [closed]
We have a COM+DLL in IIS 6 supporting an ASP classic Application. We have successfully debugged to the point that we know that the DLL is causing hangs in the worker process (a call to the object is ...
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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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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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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 ...
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How do I restore the IUSR account used by IIS 6
We mirrored one of our webservers and thus got an IUSR account that was named after the wrong server IUSR-SERVER1 when this server's name is SERVER2.
So I went and renamed the user to IUSR_SERVER2, ...