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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.

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How to manage remote IIS instances from Windows 10 Professional?

I have a number of instances of IIS running on remote Windows Server 2019 boxes. I want to be able to manage them from IIS on my local Windows 10 Professional box. To that end, I went to the Windows ...
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Browser not sending username with request in HTTP headers

I'm facing an issue where the browser is not sending the username with the request headers in my web application. I've tried using Google chrome and Edge for testing purposes. I have observed this ...
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IIS 10 (Server 2022) error 500 with name, 404 with ip

I've got a new server 2022 setup I'm just getting up and running, and when pulling a page from IIS, I get a 500 error if I use the name in the URL, but get a 404 if using IP. The difference between ...
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IIS_IUSRS doesn't exist to be added on Synology share

I used to have my website running on a physical Windows Server 2016 machine with IIS 10 which accessed its data files on an old Netgear NAS. I have since replaced the NAS with a Synology RS815+ ...
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How to change the value of "Configuration File (php.ini) Path"?

I have a few PHP apps running on IIS 10. I set each app the right PHP version for it, and it works correctly, and the Loaded Configuration File shows the right path for each, however, only the apps ...
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Why am I getting a 502 error with ARR only when SSL is enabled?

I have a configuration with ARR on a front-end server and an IIS (8) web farm behind it. SSL is enabled with the same certificate on the ARR server and the IIS web farm servers and I am not using SSL ...
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Does a domain user being used as an app pool identity need to exist on the server in order to have access to a network folder?

Running IIS 10, I used a domain user as the application pool identity: my-company/custom_app_pool_identity But it was also given a local administrator, so I completely removed that user from the ...
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IIS returning empty body with 200 response for certain URLs

I have a really strange issue on IIS, where any URLs containing certain keywords (e.g., card, bet, loan, jewelry) return a blank page. It's a 200 response with IIS headers in-tact, but the response ...
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Can't connect to WebSocket server over wss:// (ws:// works), and no debug information

I have a website on example.com, and a WebSocket server on example-websocket-server.com. Each have an SSL certificate so that I can access them from https:// I am using the websocket server as a ...
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Using ApplicationPoolIdentity for two different websites with different network folders access permissions

I need to configure two websites that need to have access to two different network folders (for example website1 needs access to X:/netfolder1/ and website2 needs access to X:/netfolder2/) I've read ...
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Redirect rule IIS

We have a linux server which is running our old website for example abcd.com. Now we changed our website and it's being hosted on IIS. for example xyz.com. We have a redirect rule setup on linux ...
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Can't open IIS manager

Folks, Very strange issue here - I simply cannot open the IIS 7 manager by choosing it directly. My OS is Windows 7, and as such, I can see it's opened on the Start Menu aswell as a preview of the ...
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Moved app to Default Application Pool with ApplicationPoolIdentity and there are permission errors

Running a PHP 8.2 app. I changed the app to use the Default Application Pool under the user ApplicationPoolIdentity instead of the previous Custom pool and custom account, but now I get: The stream ...
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How to install Web Deploy for IIS, now that Web Platform Installer has been retired?

I'm trying to install WebDeploy (for publishing IIS sites from remote Visual Studio) on a new Windows Server 2022 machine. We used to use the Web Platform Installer to install WebDeploy, however this ...
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SSL certificate for subdomain, which is routed to public IP masked on firewall, which navigates to local server

I have a web application hosted on local server. Which we have opened for public use by masking this local IP to public IP provided by ISP. So now website is accessible with public IP. We required to ...
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IIS 10 will not redirect HTTP to HTTPS after enabling HSTS

I am attempting to force end users onto HTTPS when visiting our site. I have HSTS enabled in IIS at the site and application level. I have an HTTP redirect set up at the site level to https://...
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Possible to identify the application that is causing these entries in IIS Log?

I'm wondering if it's possible to identity the program that is causing these log entries in IIS. Could that be CuppaCMS that the program is looking for, hoping to exploit a vulnerability if it's ...
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How do I redirect a subdomain to another internal webserver without affecting the RDP Gateway

we have a standard windows server 2022 running IIS 10 and remote desktop gateway. we use rdp.domain.com for the gateway address for external RDP Users. we would like to run another internal windows ...
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IIS https certificates

I’m migrating the c# web applications and data apis I've developed that are hosted on IIS to use http to use SSL / TSL (https). I have not setup certificates with https before and was wondering if it’...
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No option to add sites in IIS

I'm struggling to add a website in IIS. I have a new W2016 installation and in IIS I see I installed IIS but when I right cliinck I can't see the option to add it: Why do I not have this option? To ...
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IIS 10 - how to block an IP range

I'm trying to figure out how to block by range on MS IIS 10, but all I can find are partial range blocks (which maybe that's all IIS can do, but I'd like to know that rather than just guess that). So, ...
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Response time slows as the day goes on, where to start troubleshooting?

My IT people just shrug their shoulders when I bring this up, so I am turning to SE for some help. I think this image shows it best. Quite simply, as the day goes on response time gets worse and ...
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Wsus client getting error 403 (0x80244018)

It's been a week that my clients can't download updates from my wsus server. They control and find updates normally but when it comes to download them, they are all getting 403 error from the server. ...
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How do I restart a single website in IIS7+ using commandline?

How do I restart a single website in IIS7+ using commandline only? Same functionality as the circled menu item in the image - but from the commandline. Iisreset does not have any options to deal with ...
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No need to enable SNI for multiple SSL sites on same IP but using same wild card certificate?

I have an IIS server hosting: example.com/www.example.com sub1.example.com sub2.example.com They are listed as 3 separate sites under IIS, all bind to the same IP over HTTPS on 443. But they all use ...
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WMI Filter Does not Apply After Updates

I have a GPO with this WMI filter: SELECT Name From Win32_ServerFeature WHERE Name = 'Web Server (IIS)' The GPO has a startup script meant to modify a file to instruct the load balancer that the ...
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Nginx reverse proxy to IIS backend not working

New to nginx. I have a VM running Nginx 1.20.1 as a reverse proxy with IP 10.0.0.4. I also have a VM with IIS serving app A with IP 10.0.0.19. The subdomain xyz.test.com.my is pointing to Nginx. From ...
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Apache ProxyPass to IIS results in 503 or complete timeout

I have an IIS machine on LAN behind an Apache machine which is exposed to the internet. I have a simple proxy set up, which is intended to pass traffic to the IIS machine directly from the Apache ...
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azure app registration redirect uri not working for a spa application but only for one server

m a little stumped on this and just wondering if anyone had any ideas. I have registered in azure an application with 3 spa redirects It is a .net core react application http://localhost:3000/eem/ (...
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Can't access my ec2 public ip outside rdp

I'm using IIS to host my app and I use port 80, on my RDP if I enter the IP address it redirect me to my app but if I use the IP address outside RDP is not working. I checked with XAMPP and is working ...
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Different SSL Certificates Served for the Same Site Depending on Where the Browser Is in IIS

I have a website that is reachable on the internet and also on a local network. On the local network, pinging the server name produces a different IP address than I get when I ping it from the open ...
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Automatically renew certificate: Old cert gets archived, but no new one is issued

We are using Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) to issue certificates for internal web applications. We can manually request a certificate from the CA and it gets issued without problems. ...
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How can I tell what version of IIS is installed?

I've got a box running Win2k3 and some directions from Microsoft KB about SSL certificates, for IIS 5.0 and 6.0. How can I tell which version of IIS is currently installed?
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HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error

I'm getting the following error when trying to run my asp.net website in a browser: HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration ...
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Disabling SHA in IIS

My company has a web server running IIS 6, and was asked to help disable SHA on it. Specifically this cipher: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA I found these instructions https://www.namecheap.com/...
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IIS tilde vulnerability

I have the same problem as mentioned here Fixing the IIS tilde vulnerability and have applied all suggested fixes: 8dot3 naming disabled on all drives 8dot3 names stripped from c:\inetpub\wwwroot ...
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IIS with alternate name in SAN Cert prompts for Credentials

I have a server (server01) running IIS with a Web certificate installed. The certificate has the following SANs - server01.companyname.com server02.companyname.com The binding on Default Web Site ...
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IIS and reverse proxy outbound rules

I am trying to setup a reverse proxy using IIS 10 on Windows Server 2016 that must pass requests to an Apache Tomcat webapp. It works for URLs within the 'basic' tags (such as a or img), but I need to ...
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ASP.net IIS requests not timing out after executionTimeout Value

We have set system.web/httpRuntime executionTimeout = 60s for our .net 4.8 application hosted on server 2019 IIS 10. From time to time we see varied requests exceeding this timeout by a large margin, ...
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Server 2012 R2 Essentials IIS DefaultTSGateway variable

So I want to use RDP externally so have a forwarded domain so /remote then downlaoding RDP file works. However, I get gateway errors (Your computer can't connect to the remote computer because the ...
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Windows Server 2022 - IIS - FTP Sites / FTP Publishing

Good Day I have two Windows Server 2022 Data Centre VM's in Azure. I'm attempting to set them up as IIS servers, so I can host a bunch of ASP.Net sites. They'll be setup to load balance, so if one ...
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How can I know which version of .Net is using an application in IIS?

We have migrated an application from Net version 3.5 to 4.8. The truth is that we are encountering many problems. Everything seems right, but it doesn't seem to work returns a 500 error without any ...
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Is serving a Python Flask web app with IIS/Win Server (on prem) worth the trouble?

There are a few resources (very few from what I can tell) suggesting that serving a Python web app from IIS is doable, but I've not heard or read any real world stories about this in practice. I want ...
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How to restrict access to a specific file on iis windows 2012

IIS on Windows 2012 R2 A website has a number of directories and in one of those directories is restricted-page.html to which I want to restrict access to all except a particular windows user. The ...
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Serving 2 different websites from the same IIS server on the same port

I have 2 different websites: mysite.com api.mysite.com I want to be able to serve both of these websites from the same webserver (same IP) and same port number. I have followed this document, and ...
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Redirecting to other internal servers based on sub domain

Here is my situation home network, windows machines, 1 external facing IP address (that allows port 80) 1 windows home server always on machine, planning on upgrading to WHS 2011 soon. several IP ...
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Specifying AppCmd arguments with single quote

I'm attempting to configure a site in IIS on Windows 2016 using appcmd.exe. Specifically PHP and FastCGI. I'm running into an issue where specifying the arguments parameter with single quotes fails. ...
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ERR_CONNECTION_RESET When Using HTTPS Hosted by IIS 10 and Windows Server 2019

I have a site hosted in IIS 10 on a server running Windows Server 2019. I've set up an HTTPS certificate with Let's Encrypt. Attempts to view the site with http:// work normally, but when I enter ...
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Automate app pool recycling of an Azure Cloud Service Web Role

How can I script (e.g. using PowerShell) the action to recycle the app pool of a web site hosted in a Web Role on Azure Cloud Services? Only one instance of the cloud service is running (used for ...
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IIS 7.5 on Win server 2008 r2 useAppPoolCredentials

I'm trying to set up Windows authentication for a new website in IIS 7.5. I have the Windows authentication module enabled for the site and all other authentication types(such as anonymous, Basic etc) ...