Questions tagged [iis-8.5]
IIS 8.5 is the version of IIS that ships with Windows 2012 R2, and Windows 8.1.
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Don't see Failed Request Tracing in IIS Manager
In the "Actions" Pane of IIS Manager (InetMgr), under Configure there is supposed to be a link for Failed Request Tracing.
I don't see that... I just have "Limits..."?
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Installing SSL on a Windows Server 2012 with IIS 8.0
We are in the process of moving a website from a machine with Windows Server 2008 R2/IIS 7.5 to a machine with Windows Server 2012/IIS 8.0 as we want to take advantage of the new SNI feature.
This ...
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Is an SSL Cert needed for redirects?
We currently have a website set to redirect to a new address (our client changed domain names, but wants the old domain to send people to the new site) in IIS 8.5 using permanant redirects found in ...
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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 ...
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What role does "App Pool Identity" play for an Application Pool?
When talking about IIS 7.5 security, AFAIK:
App Pool Identity decides whom my web application runs as.
Authentication Method decides whom the clients are authenticated as.
I have a virtual folder ...
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Sync Two IIS 8.5 Server configurations only excluding bindings
We have two IIS 8.5 web servers, Server 2012 R2
Server1
Server2
I am trying to find a powershell command that will sync only changes made on Server1 to Server2
I tried shared configurations ...
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Manage Multiple IIS servers without shared configuration
We currently have 2 web servers IIS 8.5 in DEV
We will push the servers to production to replace our current production servers
My question is, is the a way to build scripts on the fly to apply ...
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Does IIS 8.5 support wildcard host header binding?
I know that IIS versions 7.5 and earlier do not support wildcard host header bindings.
Have they added it in the latest version (8.5)? I see that it finally supports SNI and wildcard binding (*....
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Windows Server 2012 R2 IIS 10 / HTTP/2
We're currently running Windows Server 2012 R2 for our web server, using IIS 8.5.
Is it possible to upgrade that to IIS 10 for HTTP/2 or otherwise enabled HTTP/2 on our current install?
Thanks, Matt.
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How does HTTP OPTIONS method determine allowed methods in IIS 8.5?
I'm looking to remove the TRACE method from my web site in IIS 8.5 (Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter). I have implemented this using request filtering as below:
<system.webServer>
<...
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Create FastCGI application with PowerShell
I'm trying to automate the provisioning of a Windows 2012 server, but I'm having trouble getting PHP to work.
This is the command I'm using to add a handler mapping to IIS:
New-WebHandler -Name "PHP-...
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ASP.NET application on "IIS 8.5" on "Windows Server 2012 R2" performs poorly compared with "IIS 7.5" on a "Windows Server 2008 R2"
We have the same ASP.NET application running on a couple of servers:
one instance runs under IIS 8.5 on Windows Server *2012* R2
two instances run under IIS 7.5 on Windows Server *2008* R2
What bugs ...
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WebDeploy 3.6 won't connect with TLS 1.0 disabled
Recently I had my servers audited for PCI compliance.
As part of this I was picked up for not having TLS 1.0 disabled as per:
http://blog.varonis.com/ssl-and-tls-1-0-no-longer-acceptable-for-pci-...
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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 8.5 change bindings on bulk (due to SSL certificate renewal)
I just renewed a Comodo Wildcard SSL certificate and I created the PFX in order to install it on my Windows Server 2012 R2 which is a VM on Microsoft Azure.
I use IIS 8.5 for all my websites which ...
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IIS 8.5 Serve file with no extension from particular folder
I have some files that have been uploaded to a folder called /Download however the have no extension e.g. File1 I have tried adding a /Download/Web.Config file with the following specified
<?xml ...
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How to fix issues with LetsEncrypt certificate chains on Windows Server?
I've been using LetsEncrypt to generate certificates for my sites on Windows 2012 R2 server. It worked great, until recently when I renewed the certificates.
LetsEncrypt made a recent change where ...
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IIS 8.5 Windows Authentication failing for some users
I have an application that was installed requiring Windows Authentication under Windows 2012, IIS 8.5. When certain users use the application, they're receiving a 401 error after the challenge/...
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IIS 8.5 - getting error when returning static 404 file
IIS8.5 > Sites > mysite > Error Pages > 404
Select "Insert content from static file into the error response".
Uncheck "Try to return the error file in the client language".
Enter path to "notfound....
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Can't find IIS config file listed by appcmd
I'm managing a bunch of IIS 8.5 servers and I'm working on complying with security baselines.
My question is this: If I run a specific appcmd query on one of our IIS servers, I get the following:
C:\&...
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How to IP restrict access to a website in IIS8,5 (Windows 2012R2)
I have read that to IP-restrict a website in IIS8 to allow only one or more IPs and deny everybody else, you do this:
Set "Access for unspecified clients" to "Deny"
Add IP-address for "Allow"
(as ...
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'Same HTTPS binding' error using IIS
I'm an experienced developer who is relatively new to IIS. I have a VPS with a dozen websites.
I previously set up an SSL certificate on one of those sites and it works fine. Today, I'm trying to ...
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Lsass.exe high CPU usage and causing request queuing on webserver
I have a webserver with Windows 2012 R2, running only one website, on ASP.NET 4.5.1, IIS 8.5.
It does not have, and has never had, the AD role installed.
Last Sunday, the process lsass.exe, suddenly ...
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What is the meaning of an IIS http status code 404.503?
Microsoft lists the IIS http status codes including the substatus codes here.
In the 404 section there are substatus codes between 0 and 20, but in my logs I get a 503 as sc-substatus
I can't find ...
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IIS8.5 Won't Serve Font Files
For some reason my IIS won't return any font files. They all return as 404s. I have verified the URLs are correct and the MIME types are correct. The font files are currently inside of a .NET 4.5 ...
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How to enable stateless session resumption cache behind load balancer?
I scanned my servers' SSL/TLS configuration using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/, and it reported Session resumption (caching) No (IDs assigned but not accepted)
I'm using 2 instances of Azure web ...
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Migrating from IIS 8.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 to IIS 10 on Windows Server 2019
I want to ask you a suggestion about how to proceed in migrating an entire IIS (version 8.5) in Windows Server 2012 R2 to IIS (version 10) on Windows Server 2019. I need a nearly automatic procedure ...
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Upgrading from IIS 6 to 8.5: increased concurrent requests
We upgraded our web server from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2. The web application in question runs against ASP.NET 4.0. The web application in turn communicates with a third-party Web ...
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Moving \inetpub\ for IIS 8.5
There are many sources that say that the %SERVERROOT%/inetpub/ must never ever be deleted or moved. And yes, I can agree with this, as updates to IIS update that directory blindly -- they don’t ...
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Is there a way to prevent Sysprep from destroying your IIS installation? [closed]
Ok, so that may sound a bit cataclysmic, but at least in many cases this is true. I have done a lot of searching but not found a great thread that has it simply stated like this.
In fact, the KB ...
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Is websocket reverse proxy possible with IIS 8.5 & URL rewrite 2.0?
I installed Tomcat as a java app server behind IIS. Using the following rules I can rewrite static pages just fine, but alas, websocket connections are never established:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Convert Crt and Key to Pfx
I made a new certificate with ZeroSSL and now I have a crt file and a Key file for the domain. I'm using no tools because I would like to get the process runing first by hand.
To use it with IIS 8.5 ...
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Enabling Brotli compression on IIS
My team us currently trying to install Brotli compression on a VPS: Windows Server 2012 R2 with IIS8.5 using the 64bit module that can be downloaded here: https://www.iispeed.com/pagespeed/products/...
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IIS sends incorrect intermediate SSL certificate
I just installed a new SSL certificate (from StartCom) to one of our servers and noticed that in Chrome there is the crossed padlock icon displayed for the site so I started investigating why is that ...
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IIS Performance Issues with Flat Files (html, css, js)
We're running an Windows 2012R2 VM with IIS 8.5 with the purpose of serving out flat files, no ASP.NET or other dynamic content is in use. The server is configured to map 5 sites to the same IP & ...
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Enable non-admin remote access to IIS Manager
I have a server running Windows Server 2012 R2 with IIS 8.5. I've configured it for remote management, and I am able to successfully connect to the IIS mangement service (on this server) from another ...
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Certificate Error before redirecting to correct name
Using IIS in Windows server 2012 R2.
I have a website which can be reached at url.com and www.url.com.
I have https://url.com set up using https://letsencrypt.org/.
I want to redirect all incomming ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 curious behavior with hosts entry
TL;DR ...our domain policy silently force pushed the LAN settings (including the proxy reference) to my machine on a predefined interval, which happened to be while I was developing but after I had ...
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Add Website Host name - should I include www prefix?
When adding a new website to IIS, the Binding section requires the host name, and gives an example as:
Example: www.contoso.com or marketing.contoso.com
When creating my website for zuggler.com, ...
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IIS 8.5 FTP - "501 Server cannot accept argument" in response to PORT command
I am running IIS 8.5 on Windows 2012 R2.
I created an FTP site to use port 8021 and when trying to connect using FileZilla (plain FTP), I get the error message "Connection timed out after 20 seconds ...
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IIS8.5 woff2 Mimetype 404 on some pages
Added the woff2 MimeType at server level on an IIS8.5. The woff2 fonts are loaded on the home page and some pages, however doesn't load on some other pages. Any ideas on what could be causing this ?
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SSL binding with no hostname, and centralized certificate store?
We have a web app that serves a large number of websites from a single IIS website. The IIS website simply has a catch-all binding on port 80. Up till now, for the SSL bindings, we have added a new IP ...
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How to handle vulnerability searches in IIS?
I have a web server running an ASP.NET web application on IIS 8.5. I noticed that several 404 errors were logged by the application which are not related to my application in anyway.
Here are few ...
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How to debug error 503 without a trace?
I am working on a large web application with a C# backend. In the development setup, the application is served via an IIS 8.5 instance on my machine.
Since recently, I cannot log in any more. I still ...
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Setting up IIS 8.5 - Security practices
This is the first time I'm setting up an IIS installation and i want to make sure to provide maximum security. Some questions were popping into my mind while setting up:
Note that this server hosts ...
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IIS 8.5 file upload causing ‘NetworkError: 500 Internal Server Error
I am having a terrible time trying to find the cause of the error when uploading a file (the size of the file does not matter) via HTTP to a Windows 2012 R2 Essentials (IIS 8.5) webserver.
The ...
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IIS8 Application Pool Identity with Integrated Security to a SQL Server in a non-trusted domain?
Here is the scenario that we are experiencing and why we are trying to solve this:
We are a consulting company that support a particular third-party software application for a number of clients. The ...
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Is it possible to redirect a URL from HTTP to HTTPS on the same port for IIS?
I have a website located on a custom port number in the server.
Currently, it is serving the users using HTTP.
I was wondering if it is possible to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS while still reusing the ...
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When should I not use IIS 8.5's automatic cert rebinding feature?
I had asked this on StackOverflow, but the community didn't think it was closely related enough to programming.
In IIS 8.5, there is a feature title "Certificate Rebind" that shows up in IIS as "...
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Clone identical cipher suite from Apache2 on linux to IIS 8.5 in Windows Server 2012r2
Intended result: To have identical cipher support in IIS 8.5 (new server), as I have support for in Apache 2.4 (the server I want to copy the supported ciphers from).
ssllabs.com info : Apache 2.4 ...
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