Questions tagged [iis-7.5]

IIS 7.5 is the version of IIS that ships with Windows 2008 R2, Windows Small Business Server 2011, and Windows 7. A subset of IIS 7.5 is provided by IIS Express, optionally installed by the Web Platform Installer.

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Why is gzip compression varying in efficiency in IIS?

While running Fiddler, I noticed something odd in a request for a static ~5MB XML file to my server: Despite sending byte-for-byte identical headers (Edit: Including the headers), the responses were ...
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How to disable SSLv2 or SSLv3?

Anyone know how to disable certain SSL versions and only enable others in IIS 7.5?
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Why can't I log in to a Windows-protected IIS 7.5 directory on the server?

I have a web site with an admin subdirectory that is protected by integrated Windows authentication. Works flawlessly from remote PCs. But when I attempt to access these pages on the server itself, ...
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IIS 7.5 Redirect / URL Rewrite to mobile version of website

I'm looking for an IIS solution (not programming) to redirect a website to a mobile version of the website. It looks like it might be possible, but not sure, with IIS Redirect or using IIS URL Rewrite ...
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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 ...
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How to enable TLS 1.1, 1.2 in IIS 7.5

We want to support web browsers utilizing TLS 1.1 and 1.2, which has been apparently implemented by Microsoft, but is turned off by default. So I went searching on Google and discovered some pages ...
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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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ApplicationPoolIdentity IIS 7.5 to SQL Server 2008 R2 not working

I have a small ASP.NET test script that opens a connection to a SQL Server database on another machine in the domain. It isn't working in all cases. Setup: IIS 7.5 under W2K8R2 trying to connect to ...
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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 ...
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IIS7.5 redirect IP to domain

But stuck on this one, looked on google but couldnt find anything. The deployment of the site went slightly wrong and some pages were being saved as: http://73.34.12.../page.aspx Where the IP was ...
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2008 R2 TLS 1.2 enabled in registry, rebooted, but not functioning

Yes, I rebooted the server. Several times. This actually affects both TLS 1.1 and 1.2. The only one currently working is 1.0. I followed the instructions here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245030 ...
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IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) - HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized

I'm trying to test my ASP.Net website on localhost and I'm getting this error: HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized You do not have permission to view this directory or page because of the access control ...
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How to diagnose a 500 Internal Server Error on IIS 7.5 when nothing is written to the event log?

I've just deployed an update to an existing ASP.NET MVC3 site (it was already configured) and I'm getting the IIS blue screen of death stating HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error The page ...
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Directly editing IIS 7 applicationHost.config configuration file

I know that IIS 7+ uses XML config files instead of the metabase. I also know that if I edit a web.config file for a given site, IIS automagically detects the changes and implements any corresponding ...
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Troubleshooting Windows Authentication problems (no challenge) in IIS 7.5?

I know that there are thousands of reports of people having trouble getting Integrated Windows Authentication to work with IIS, but they all seem to lead to web pages that don't apply or solutions ...
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Should I impersonate PHP via FastCGI?

I am installing the latest version of PHP onto IIS 7.5 via FastCGI, and all of the instructions say that FastCGI should impersonate the calling client by setting fastcgi.impersonate = 1 If my ...
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IIS 7.5 Creating self signed certificates with validation date of more than a year

I am creating self-signed SSL certificates in IIS 7.5 for internal use. The problem I have is that I want to create them so that they last for 10 years as it is only a dev environment. I can't see an ...
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Load-Balanced IIS 7.5 Web Server ASP.NET Session State problem

we have a problem with an ASP.NET website where the users' sessions are behaving oddly - session data appearing, disappearing and re-appearing. I think I know what the problem is: Our setup is 2 x ...
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How to disable SSL 2.0 on IIS 7.5? [duplicate]

I've seen this KB Article which Microsoft put out covering how to remove SSL 2.0 on IIS 7.0 and earlier, but I can't find anything advising on how to do the same on IIS 7.5. The registry keys ...
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Temporarily redirect *all* HTTP/HTTPS requests in IIS to a "server maintenance" page

We've got an IIS server that hosts hundreds of separate web apps, and the physical database server that hosts these apps is going to be taken offline for maintenance for a brief period (we expect it ...
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What does Virtual Bytes mean in Worker Processes pane in IIS7.5 Manager?

What does Virtual Bytes mean in Worker Processes pane in IIS7.5 Manager? If I open IIS Manager (On WindowsServer 2008r2), and go to the Worker Processes page, I can see that one of my AppPool ...
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Can Https work without a certificate?

Recently our infrastructure team told our development team that you do not need a certificate for https. They mentioned that the only benefit of buying a certificate was to give the consumer peace of ...
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How to add a site-wide downtime error message in IIS, with a custom 503 error code?

My website will be down for maintenance for some time, and I want to make sure sure that (1) search engines see a HTTP 503 error code for every page, and (2) humans see a friendly message describing ...
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Changing physical path on IIS through appcmd isn't activated

We have come across an issue on IIS 7.5 where we have a simple deploy system which consists of the following: Create a zip-file of new webroot, consisting of three folders: Api Site Manager This is ...
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Can I prevent IIS from recycling if /bin changes?

IIS recycles an ASP.net Application Pool automatically whenever either the /bin folder or the web.config file changes. Is there a way to disable that feature? This is IIS 7.5 running in Integrated ...
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IIS7 - Web Deployment Tool - SetParam/SetParamFile to set http and https bindings + Cert

we're currently using the MS Web Deployment Tool to sync a live website and some WebServices from a staging box to two live servers. The staging box hosts the site on any IP on port 17000, whereas ...
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Problem running MVC3 app in IIS 7

I am having a problem getting a MVC 3 project running in IIS7 on a computer running Windows 7 Home-64 bit. Here is what I did. Installed IIS 7. Accessed the server and got the IIS welcome page. ...
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How to disable Request Filtering for a specific website on IIS 7.5?

I have Request Filtering enabled in my IIS 7.5 and want to keep it that way, however, one site is basically just a proxy for some internal Java application and I'd like to disable Request Filtering ...
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Server sent passive reply with unroutable address. Using server address instead IIS 8.5

I have just set up a FTP server in IIS 8.5 on my Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. With FileZilla when I try connect to the local IP (10.0.0.4) with my username and password on port 21, it will ...
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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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Multiple instances of a web site on a single server - upgrade one at a time

I would like to host a single physical machine two copies of the same very site to minimize downtime during upgrades. I think I could put a load balancer in front of the machine, assign two IPs to ...
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Win2k8R2 / IIS 7.5 - users getting 503 response, no 503 error reported in logs

I've got 2 web servers with mirrored content. There's a load balancer sitting in front of them. Starting yesterday we've been getting people complaining about 503 errors. i can't find any 503 errors ...
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Increasing Web.config size limit

We are running up against some sort of size boundary on the Web.config file in our ASP.NET application. This appears to be 250KB. Is there any way to increase this limit? EDIT Sorry, fingers got ...
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IIS7.5 - prevent recycling when changing default document

Is there any setting in IIS 7.5 to prevent it from recycling the app pool when a default document is changed? IIRC this didn't happen in IIS 6 and I want that behavior back.
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Adding a virtual directory IIS 7.5 Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Trying to get my IIS 7.5 playing nice with VS 2008 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I'm getting this error: System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Web....
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IIS 7.5 401.3 Access Denied

I am having this weird issue with IIS 7.5 on Windows 2008 R2 x64. I created a site in IIS and manually created a test file index.html and everything worked. When I try to do a deployment, I copy all ...
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Configuring IIS 7.5 to be FIPS 140.2 compliant

I need to configure IIS 7.5 (Server 2008 R2) to be FIPS 140.2 compliant. Specifically, this involves disabling all SSL protocols other than TLS 1.0. I have set the following registry keys: HKLM\...
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In IIS7, is it possible to have custom environment variables per web site?

I'm setting up IIS7.5 for a company intranet. The server will host both a 'test' and a 'prod' site. The environment variable I want to customize per site is 'PERL5LIB. I want this web server to ...
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ARR 3 IIS 7.5 Windows Authentication not working

We have been spinning our wheels trying to get windows authentication working through ARR. We've created a new domain account (appservices) ARR Server (srvarr) using default app pool with user set ...
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IIS Connection String not being inherited

I have an issue where I've set up a connection string at the Machine level in IIS, and it is inherited all the way down as expected... EXCEPT for the application I want to use the string in. Other ...
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IIS 7.5 FTPS external access - 534 Policy requires SSL

I have setup a FTP site that requires SSL but when I try connect to it externally I get the error: 220 Microsoft FTP Service 534 Policy requires SSL. I know - I set it so! Why doesnt it fetch ...
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IIS 7 + Tomcat 7 - how to reach http://localhost:8080/my_app under e.g. http://my_app.local

In brief: IIS 7 + Apache Tomcat 7 + isapi_redirect.dll: I have a deployed and working Tomcat-application available under http://localhost:8080/my_app. I would like to see the same content under http:...
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IIS 7.5 logging, how do I include milliseconds in the time field?

Currently, my IIS log looks like this (using W3C logging): 2012-02-15 00:31:50 W3SVC1 ... Is there a way to include milliseconds, such as: 2012-02-15 00:31:50.123 W3SVC1 ...
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Issue provisioning IIS 7.5 server using Web Farm Framework 2

We have WFF 2.5 installed, and have used it to successfully configure a farm and provision a secondary server in our test environment. Our environment (controller, primary, secondary servers) is ...
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new installation of windows 2008 R2 ... having permissions issues (everyone has access)

I can not limit access to the IUSR user nor the IIS_IUSRS group at all....not even a different user that I tried for anonymous access. When I say IUSR below, I also mean I've tried adding the group ...
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Why is IIS 7.5 flushing file cache very often?

We're running a Win 2008 R2 server with IIS 7.5 for serving image files. It's only used for static content, and file caching has been set up to cache files for 10 minutes. However the IIS frequently ...
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SSL issues on a mobile website

We are experiencing issues with some mobile devices such as Windows Mobile (not Phone 7) and BlackBerry's not able to go to a SSL website of ours. The errors returned are below on our Windows Server ...
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Monitoring "Request Wait Time" in PerfMon

A website I'm load testing is adding requests to the iis request queue. I can see the queue size getting bigger using the relevant performance counter: \ASP.NET\Requests Queued However I'm trying to ...
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Detailed Errors not working for WCF Service in IIS

If I were to change the web.config file to have errors in it, I only see the standard 500 - Internal Server Page. Despite setting the Error Pages mode to Detailed, I can't see a detailed error ...
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Installing WebDeploy Service

I'm stuggling with installing WebDeploy service on my development PC (Windows 7 Professional with IIS 7.5). Can someone give me the steps required to do that. Update: I installed the Web Deployment ...
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